![]() In the half hour I have played around it has been stable. So the image does seem to be geared toward a shipping Apple machine, more than a forward looking alpha OS. Of course if the image is for a 6360 none of those items would be of any use. I was hoping I might find something related to USB, Firewire or maybe even Airport, but did not see anything. There is a lot of items relating to OpenDoc which was to be big OS 8 thing. The appearance control panel has the fruity themes that are associated with the first iMacs and OS 8. It includes Clarisworks 4 and Now Datebook(?) and Netscape 3.0. I looks as though it was clearly for a Performa machine. It is something of an oddball mix of items many of which do not seem to be part of a typical system install. But on the next try it booted and ran fine. Then for whatever reason it booted only to crash immediately. I fiddled with SheepShaver and for a while it appeared as though it was not going to work. sit version, extracted it using unarchiver on OS X. ![]() Last Edit: June 24, 2022, 17:44 by galgot wove ![]() Still no joy, freezes after the extension loads. So mounted it as a spare drive in another BasiliskII system and moved MacBugs to the desktop. Got the MacOS splash screen, then extensions loading, but after that was going straight to debugger (MacBugs ?), but couldn't type anything. Tried boot it in BasiliskII using different roms, without success. So should be possible to make a clean install. And a folder with apparently the complete installer for 7.7. strange There is lot of stuff on this image disk, some dev stuff that I have no idea what they are used for. The Desktop Pattern Ctrl Panel buttons are. Platinum is default appearance, so looks a lot like Mac OS8, though some icons are still Syst 7 like. How much 7.6 is still in it, how much 8.0 is already in?īooted it in SheepShaver, and it worked (the screenshot on MG is mine). Read the whole story on the Mac Garden page.Īnyone of you guys with emulators willing to give this a try and report back? Apparently one individual found it on a prototype Macintosh and thankfully uploaded it for preservation. Mac OS 7.7 pre-release version surfaced (Read 727 times)Ī pre-release version of Mac OS 7.7 surfaced on the Mac Garden the other day.
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