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You may wish to try out SheepSaver if you haven't already. There are some tutorials that make the process relatively simple, booting to Finder in a few minutes.

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You may wish to try out SheepSaver if you haven't already

I have. I lost half a day trying to make it work and gave up. This was while ago. Maybe it's better now.

You have to upgrade the libraries and recompile it. A friend did it for me for Windows 10. It runs MacOS 8 but the web browser is out of date. I think there is a pay one named iCab that works.

There are some really great self contained pre-built SheepShaver OS9 appliances. I don't suggest building your own unless you need to.

Columbia University offers this one: http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/macos9osx.html

Direct download: http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/Mac%20OS%209.zip

You can have an OS9 VM up and running in minutes.

These support networking: https://www.macintoshrepository.org/7751-sheepshaver-ppc-emu... https://www.macintoshrepository.org/15339-sheepshaver-packag...

I'll try the Columbia one. Macintosh Repository doesn't allow those files to be downloaded without signing up for an account, and I'm not all that interested in signing up for yet another account unless I know it's worth it.

Even better, the latest QEMU can now run Mac OS 9.2.2 with sound, networking, and excellent speed.

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