Tiger breaks hyperCard?

Bill bill at bluewatermaritime.com
Sat Jul 2 18:23:38 EDT 2005


The problem is nine to five reports under hypercard


On 7/2/05 3:03 PM, "jeff reynolds fios" <jeff at siphonophore.com> wrote:

> Hmm, i just got my new powerbook this week with tiger installed, but
> not classic (i think apple has been doing this for at least a year now
> since i have had folks say they didnt have classic and i would just
> have them load it from their system discs). the powerbook tiger system
> discs came with the classic 922 installer on it. i ran it and it
> installed a nice new os922 system folder that works great with tiger.
> tested my old hypercard standalone app and it worked swimmingly. the
> powerbook hard drive was not partitioned and the 922 system folder is
> sitting there right next to the osx system folder.
> 
> am i missing something here?
> 
> Jeffrey Reynolds
> 
> On Jul 2, 2005, at 4:51 AM, use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com
> wrote:
> 
>> That's just what we've been doing: copying over an old system folder.
>> Seems to work just fine; every classic app I've tried (admittedly,
>> haven't
>> launched HC since installing Tiger) has worked well.
>> 
>> cheers,
>>   - marty
>> 
>> --
>> Marty Billingsley (marty at ucls.uchicago.edu)
>> The University of Chicago Laboratory Schools
>> 
>> 
>> Dan Shafer <revdan at danshafer.com> writes:
>>> I can't say what the general case might be, but I *can* report that I
>>> merely copied an old System Folder from a Classic install on OS X
>>> 10.3 to my Tiger drive after installation and it seems to work fine.
>>> I don't use it often and I surely don't push it around much, but it
>>> hasn't crashed, broken, complained or otherwise caused a fuss.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Jun 28, 2005, at 8:46 AM, Eric Chatonet wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi Todd and Jim,
>>>> 
>>>> To be more precise, I was told that you can't install an OS 9.2.2
>>>> system folder on any partition where Tiger (or any OS X system) is
>>>> already installed.
>>>> It does not work: OS 9 must be installed first or installed on
>>>> another disk or partition...
>>>> At the very worst you have to backup, erase your Tiger disk, make
>>>> an OS 9  clean install (just copying an existing system folder is
>>>> risky :-) and a Tiger clean install on top :-(
>>>> Then when you see the hard disk prices at the moment, it might be a
>>>> better solution to buy an external firewire one...
>>>> 
>>>> Le 28 juin 05 à 01:22, Todd Higgins a écrit :
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> This is true.  New machines do not ship with the Classic System
>>>>> Folder.  But If you have an existing Macintosh you can just copy
>>>>> the System Folder over.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Todd
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Jun 27, 2005, at 6:34 PM, Jim Hurley wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> I had heard, from a distance source, that a new Mac with Tiger
>>>>>> installed will not necessarily include classic. Anybody know
>>>>>> whether this is true?
> 
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