Tiger and os9 was Tiger breaks hypercard

jeff reynolds fios jeff at siphonophore.com
Sun Jul 3 13:53:16 EDT 2005


I had some confusion as to what folks were talking about with loading a 
os9 and os 10.4 on the same partition. I missed that the thread i 
responded to might have been with just problems with running os9 under 
tiger to run hc running 9to5 reports. I thought it was just problems 
running classic from the  part of the thread i read and responded to. 
Are you concerned with os9 compatibility in general or just with hc and 
9to5 reports. My old hc app does not use 9to5 reports, but lots of qt 
and specialty graphics calls as well as reads and writes files to the 
hard drive.

  I have only used the 10.3 and 10.4 with os9 on the same partition to 
run the os9 in classic mode, since the computers it they are loaded on 
are only machines that can run osx.

I am just in the process today of suping up an old mac to donate and 
loading 10.3 and 922 on it. it can run 9 so i will see if it can flip 
between them fine. this was the standard feature of osx and 9 on older 
machines that still had 9 bootablity in their roms. i know i had no 
problem switching between running 10.1 with 9 on the same partition on 
my old titanium as well as running the 9 as classic under 10.1 (but it 
was the crude days of classic).

sorry if there was confusion on this. i just got spooked when i saw the 
thread since i had just run off 1000 cds of a decade old multimedia 
cdrom that uses an app i developed in hc and was worried there would be 
a problem with tiger (figured murphy and all). amazing that a decade 
old app still works! trying to make the vb pc version work takes some 
guts in installing a v2 of quicktime over your nice new quicktime you 
need for xp or 2000 just to get one dll installed! not for the faint 
hearted...

yell if you have more questions and i can try and clear the air more 
then send a clarification to the list.

Jeffrey Reynolds


On Jul 3, 2005, at 1:00 PM, use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com 
wrote:

>
> Jeff,
>
> Thanks for this update. Good to know.
>
> Is it possible to run OS 9 and OS X simultaneously as with 10.2 (? & 
> 10.3)?
>
> Jim




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