Mac Classic Apps Run Under OS X but Not On Native Classic

[Dan Shafer]

On Sep 5, 2004, at 8:55 PM, Sannyasin Sivakatirswami wrote:

> Reporting in on this... My splash engine -- standalone built with 
> 2.2.1 (on OSX) and copied to CD and then copied to an old eMac PPC 
> running 9.2, failed. So, its' more than .sit compression issues.
>
> I'll bugZilla this:
>
> Dan, any progress on your end? I've got 2 users standing by... at this 
> point I'm telling them to get the dream machine for home computing 
> that's about to arrive: G5 iMac. But not everyone has deep pockets.
>
My problem went away when I put the unstuffed version on a CD and 
manually loaded it on the OS 9 machine.

One possible clue. OS 9.2 is, I think, not recommended for running 
outside the OS X compatibility layer. I could be wrong about that but 
it may be worth checking.

Dan

> Sivakatirswami
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> On Sep 4, 2004, at 4:13 PM, Dan Shafer wrote:
>
>> I suspect that'll fix it. I'm going to keep experimenting to see if I 
>> can find a secret to allowing me to email these files but in the 
>> meanwhile, my sole OS9 user during beta is in the same office area, 
>> so it's not a huge burden.
>>
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>> On Sep 4, 2004, at 7:05 PM, Sannyasin Sivakatirswami wrote:
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>>> Having same problem here...  are running 9.2 on old Macs.
>>>
>>> Someone  said that the compression could be the problem if you used 
>>> .sit on OSX...to generate the file for the OS9 user and if they an 
>>> old version of stuffit..  (did you do that?) I had them upgrade 
>>> stuffIt, I then compressed again with Deluxe making sure that it was 
>>> .sit for OS9... still didn't work. I'm getting exactly those same 
>>> messages, Dan.
>>>
>>> So, to eliminate compression issues I've copied the splash screen 
>>> with the engine for 9.2 and the .rev stack (all done in 2.2.1)  to a 
>>> CD and just today given this to a beta tester... crossing my 
>>> fingers...I'll know tomorrow or next day.
>>>
>>>  Same app runs fine on OSX and Windows...
>>>
>>> Sivakatirswami
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>>>
>>> On Sep 4, 2004, at 8:40 AM, Dan Shafer wrote:
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>>>> Yeah, I built it in 2.2.1. That's the one that doesn't run.
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