OS 9 Emulation problems

[Albal]

Hi all,

Right, I managed to get OS 9 working on my UMBP after sever efforts and searching a hell of a lot on the google and that. I want to be able to play Simtower!

OS 9 is working great, and it is a fully functional OS 9 as far as I am aware.

The problem is, I can install anything on the OS and I can't work out why. I've never used OS9 before but it certainly isn't as simple as OSX!

Any help would be appreciated.

When trying to install/open anything I get this:

Cheers for any suggestions.

Oh, one last thing - I can't find the applications folder on OS 9. Am I being thick or isn't there one or what?!

Thanks!

 

[ppc750fx]

Rebuild your Classic installation's desktop.

 

[Albal]

Thanks for that, but the problem is I dont have the first idea how you do that!

Ideas?

 

[Phil A.]

The issue is that your applications are being seen as documents not applications, hence the error message about not being able to find the application that created the document.

A quick search on Google turned up a possible solution, which is to burn the application to a CD from within OS X, and then copy it from the CD to your OS 9 system within the OS 9 environment.

Hope this helps!

 

[Albal]

Okay I understand that.

Surely OS9 thinking everything is file is just a simple setting or code to change somewhere?

I'm not 100% sure if the CD rom drive works in the emulator. I'll have a scour around and see if I can find answer.

Thanks.

 

[Phil A.]

Okay I understand that.

Surely OS9 thinking everything is file is just a simple setting or code to change somewhere?

I'm not 100% sure if the CD rom drive works in the emulator. I'll have a scour around and see if I can find answer.

Thanks.

You can use resedit within OS 9 to flag the file as an application, but you need to get resedit on to the OS 9 machine first (bit of a catch-22 situation!).

 

[Albal]

I nearly got it to work on my other computer (PB G4) only to have this error pop up:

"There is not enough memory to open 'Simtower'. (zero K needed, 234,444 available)"

I just checked out another forum and it appears, even if I get this thing working I probably wont be able to play the damn game anyhow because:

http://www.emaculation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5616

How frustrating!

 

[Queso]

You can use resedit within OS 9 to flag the file as an application, but you need to get resedit on to the OS 9 machine first (bit of a catch-22 situation!).

Sheepshaver will happily share the host Mac's networking. If you can find resedit on a website that will correctly render in IE for Mac you should be able to download it straight into the emulated OS.

 

[Albal]

Well,

I managed to find a CD, and thought what the heck let's just give it a go and it worked!

I am so stoked. Thanks a million Queso and Phil A - what stars.

I wish I was more computer savvy!

 

[Phil A.]

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You're welcome. Glad it helped!