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2014, July 27 - 4:05pm

FM_fan

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Help Needed with SheepShaver

Hello,

Firstly apologies for not being the most technological minded when it comes to this sort of thing - I've looked for guides and videos on YouTube etc but can't seem to find anything to solve my problem.

I am trying to play an older version of Football Manager on the Mac (10.9.4). After burning the .cue file onto a CD I tried installing normally but it said Power PC was no longer supported. I then downloaded SheepShaver and have now managed to get the ROM etc so I can see the old Mac screen.

However, when I drag the file from the CD across to the shared SheepShaver Unix file it cannot open to install. It shows an error message saying "The application "fm final" could not be opened because "CarbonLib--CFURLCreateFromFSRef" could not be found.

How do I go about installing the game on the computer? Is it through the 10.9.4 system or the SheepShaver system?

Many thanks.

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2014, July 27 - 5:04pm

IIGS_User

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Probably this system extension is missing inside your Sheep configuration:
MacGarden/CarbonLib
Maybe installing this extension helps to install the game within Sheep.

CarbonLib is a Library for PowerPC-based Mac OS systems which let Mac OS X PowerPC-based applications and games run on Mac OS 8.6 to 9.2.2, and the game should run on Intel based OS X system up to OS X 10.6 (using its Rosetta environment, which has been dropped on 10.7+ systems).

The other problem on newer OS X versions is, it doesn't let Basilisk and SheepShaver mount real CD-ROMs in drive.

2014, July 27 - 9:54pm

sfp1954

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You can not install or run applications from the unix/swapfolder.
You have to drag them inside you virtual Mac HD.
Do not just drag them to the desktop - if you do they are still physically located on the unix folder.

2014, July 28 - 10:56am

24bit

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My bin/cue images were useless in SheepShaver or BasiliskII.
If the source CD can not be imaged as .img or .toast it may be impossible to run it with emulators.
It could be that the HFS partition can be used in a limited way, but as soon as the app tries to access data on the other partition[s] it will fail.

The only workaround I can think of (except for using a vintage Mac) are WINDOS systems running BasiliskII build 142 or FusionPC.
Both emulators can handle SCSI CD-ROM drives, but both can only run OS 8.1 or lower, 68k - no PPC.
If Football Manager is fat binary (68k and PPC coded) it might work that way.

If your bin/cue image is available for download, someone might give it a whirl with FusionPC or 10.6/Rosetta.