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pismo running os 8.6
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alright, i've this game-pazner general (circa 1996)-that
bombs 9.x with address errors... 8.6 is the absolute latest
mac os it will run on...
so has anyone successfully booted pismo (pb 2000 firewire)
with os 8.6?
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Admin Emeritus  Join Date: Oct 1999
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If it can be done (which I doubt), it's a really, really bad idea! 8.6 came out long before the Pismo, and doesn't know its hardware. Heck, even the original 9.0 (9.0.0) doesn't support the Pismo (9.0.2 or higher). Running an older OS is just asking for trouble.
You may be able to get your old game to run by getting this small control panel or extension that patches 9's memory manager to have the same functions as 8.6 and older (Apple warned developers years in advance to not use certain functions, as they were slated to be removed in a future version of Mac OS. That version turned out to be 9.0.). Alas, I don't know the name of the extension, but by visiting the Mac OS 9 pages on the troubleshooting sites (macfixit.com, xlr8yourmac.com, and macintouch.com), you should be able to find reference to it.
Note that if you have trouble finding it, search for early references of Mac OS 9 and ATM incompatibility, since it is the same bug that afflicted that program (before a special Mac OS 9-only version of ATM was released).
tooki
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Now that connectix's Virtual PC for PC's is out (allowing you run W95 from within W2000 or W98, etc.) maybe someone should come out with a product that allows you to run OS8.6 or lower from within OSX?
Let's make Classic run REALLY classic apps.
Are you listening, Connectix? Emulation within the OS is an awesome way to maintain backwards compatibility. And if they can figure out how to access the hardware thorugh OSX without violating any rules, it should rock!
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Dan
"I guarantee that I am correct."
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Just run Virtual PC and then under Virtual PC run a mac emulator. That should really crawl and make it the speed so you don't have to slow down classic games.
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