I had to remove the gatekeeper attributes or else it would create a new entry in the Security Preferences for input items and full drive access each time I ran. But even with that, it still ran in app translocation mode. This build I tried isn’t signed so I had to right click and authorize it to run.

I had to manually remove the quarantine flags with xattr -d /path/to/sheepshaver. I was able to get SheepShaver running on Catalina with some bugs: However, if you poke around in the Issues folder on the SheepShaver GitHub site, you can find some links to 64-bit builds. Unfortunately, any URL associated with that is also going to be associated with hackintoshes and the copying/sharing of boot ROMs. I can give you the name, but not the URL. Microsoft and WordPerfect generally tried to support cross-platform compatibility and didn’t use resource forks as much as other Mac software.īut again, Apple did have very good cross-platform compatibility back in the century when more people needed it. Your old documents could be real old-school Mac documents with resource forks. I’m afraid that backwards-compatibility long ago lost out over convenience and compatibility with other systems. We know WinTel does, but look at their issues It's shame that Apple doesn't seem to have backwards-capability in instances that require it (such as my case). For a time traveller like yourself, materializing your TARDIS in the middle of London 2019 with a bunch of Mac files from 1997, you are going to have difficulty. There is no substitute for having the genuine software.īut most Word users would have migrated their documents over the years, as Word itself progressed. They should be able to extract the text, but not much else. They do a poor job of converting documents.

I’m generally not a fan of those “Libre Office” apps. If it does open it, I’m sure you would have to probably click a box to show all files and then explicitly tell Word that it is a “Mac Word 5.1” document. That could be a Word 5.1 document or older. I don’t know if current versions of Word can open a Word document that old. That being said, I have a question: how could I get those files to open in their native formats? I tried opening up a word file, and all it gave me back was ASCII code :-(Īre there any programs that can perform this operation?

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