Using SheepShaver to create a bootable System 7 disk image for BlueSCSI & ZuluSCSI
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- Опубліковано 12 січ 2025
- The modern SCSI disk emulators like the BlueSCSI and ZuluSCSI use disk images to emulate a SCSI hard drive. There are a few downloadable disk images available, but what if you want to make your own from scratch?
This tutorial shows how to use a modern Mac and the vintage Mac emulator SheepShaver to create your own bootable System 7.5.3 disk image, and pre-load it with all the necessary utilities to make retro computing super easy.
It also demonstrates how easy it is to transfer large quantities of files onto the disk image from your modern Mac.
HARDWARE
BlueSCSI: bluescsi.com
ZuluSCSI: zuluscsi.com
SOFTWARE
The Unarchiver: theunarchiver.com
BlueSCSI Transfer Utility (Toolbox): bluescsi.com/t...
SheepShaver: www.emaculatio...
ROMs: www.redundantr...
Disk Jockey: diskjockey.one...
System 7.5.3: macintoshgarde...
Stuffit Expander: macintoshgarde...
Disk Copy 6: macintoshgarde...
Virtual CD/DVD-ROM Utility: macintoshgarde...
FileTyper: macintoshgarde...
Civilization: macintoshgarde...
CHAPTERS
00:22 BlueSCSI Transfer Utility
01:42 Resource forks
02:07 The Unarchiver
02:27 SheepShaver
03:13 Sourcing the ROM
04:02 Creating a SheepShaver Virtual Machine
05:16 First launch
05:59 Disk Jockey
06:41 System 7.5.3 installer
07:34 SheepShaver preferences
08:43 Initialise disk image
09:04 Install System 7.5.3
10:20 Booting our new disk for the first time
11:14 Stuffit Expander and DropStuff
12:12 Unix shared drive
13:31 Disk Copy 6
14:36 Virtual CD/DVD-ROM Utility
15:29 FileTyper
16:27 Prepare SD card
16:41 Using the SD card in the BlueSCSI
17:04 Transferring files from a modern Mac to the BlueSCSI image
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I've been using SheepShaver for many years and still learned a bunch from this video so thanks!
Subscribed from SA here in Straya! As a senior citizen I cut my tech teeth on Apple Macintosh computers since 1984 and now with so much time on my hands I am back into tinkering and enjoying the older Macs that many times would frustrate the crap out of me! But I am much calmer now. WONDERFUL channel. I have just placed an order with Juicy Crumb for the assembled Blue SCSI! Cheers mate.
Great tutorial Bruce. All I need now is a BlueSCSI, an SD card, and SheepShaver!
As a not-so-long-time subscriber, I've been following you in all of your great videos, but this is a topic that I've been interested in for a long time and is put together very competently. It briefly shows all the important aspects of what is necessary to create an image for - the BlueSCSI variant that is relevant to me. And with a very professional display quality. I thank you for this excellent performance.
Thank you!
Great video as always. And don’t forget to edit sheepshaver prefs file to hardcursor true if you want to run in full screen makes a huge difference in 2.5 to cursor smoothness (see setup notes for earlier versions)
Excellent tutorial, Bruce! This'll be a great resource to future vintage Mac geeks.
You only left out the part where you played Civilization for several hours on end, but maybe we can catch that on your future Twitch channel!
This is the first tutorial that actually worked for me. Thank you so much!!!
Great video! I have been waiting for this one. You did not disappoint!
Thank you!
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Excellent Video, Bruce!
Great guide! This'll be super helpful for folks to refer to
Well done! Excellent tutorial!
Great video! Saved!! Will be trying this out soon. Thanks for sharing!
Another terrific video
Thanks, I will make use of many of the tips in your video. For the next act, how about getting started with Daynaport ethernet on the BlueSCSI v2?
Great video! I have one question: In the old days of using real hardware, we had specific versions of System 7.5 etc for specific models, along with system enabler files. In your initial steps, you chose a 9500 ROM and the complimentary OS, but your physical vintage Mac was not a 9500. In your configuration, everything just worked. However, how would one know which ROM and system installer to choose for creating the SheepShaver environment, ensuring that these initial choices will deliver a bootable system on actual vintage Macintosh hardware? Your instructions and steps are so clear and easy to follow. Much appreciated! Thank you, Bruce.
When I installed 7.5.3, I selected the option for a universal install, so that it would include all the necessary files for the system to work on any Macintosh (that is capable of running 7.5.3). The system enablers you refer to are mainly required for system 7.1, and a few for 7.5, but by 7.5.3 the need for enablers is gone.
Not always - sometimes *all* the data was in the resource fork!
Frequently. Ah the days of changing all of the entities in a given game to highly immature versions.
Cool video. I have an old Quadra that I want to get up and running again.
This was fun to watch. I have an ULTRA upgraded Power Mac 8500 (PowerPC G3 300 MHz CPU, 512 MB of RAM, and some 64 MB PCI video card of which I don't remember much about.. I do remember it giving me grief the last time I tried tinkering with it) and I been wanting to play with my BlueSCSI I got for it for a bit now.. I've just been too busy with work (ugh retail). How would this process work if I wanted to have separate disk images for Mac OS 9, Mac OS X, and maybe even Linux? I've been wanting to run Linux on such vintage hardware for a long time and from within it run Mac OS 9 and/or Mac OS X via something called Mac-On-Linux. I think it still exists, but I doubt it's maintained anymore. Its site is still around, so that's something. Oh and also what [chain of] hardware would I need to properly capture audio and video on a modern computer so I can record the footage with out jankily holding a camera to the screen output? lol. Mac84 I think has a video, but all I'd need is the chain of hardware to set up and I'd be off to the races.
Thanks in advance!
sheepshaver isn't opening on my m2 macbook pro
My power Mac 7200/120 hard drive died and I just absolutely can not figure out how to get a Mac os 9.1 back on it working. Can you do a tutorial for that?
Is it possible to do this on Sequioa 15.0.1?
This is WAY too complicated for me. I bought the BlueSCSI V2 and formatted it as OS extended and the SD card mounts as a 64GB volume. I then inserted the SC card into the BlusSCSI V2 that is connected to a scsi cable in my 7500/100 and proceeded to boot from the 8.5 install CD and then restart and then reboot again from the 8.6 updater CD and restarted and I have a 7500/100 running with a 64GB SCSI HDD! However after watching what you do here I haven't got a clue what to do with the 7500 as eBay etc has almost zero vintage software CD's to run in 8.6...... I am so baffled. Monterey 12.7.3 will NOT work with any IMG, DMG or ISO or ZIP files. It just asks for an application to do this. What am I missing?? So frustrating.
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