Wolfenstein 3D (or any other app)

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2011, March 12 - 9:40am

Ghost_Princess

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Wolfenstein 3D (or any other app)

Guys, I like, totally really need help ;(

I downloaded Chubby Bunny and got it running and figured out how to open my files from the unix drive. So, I downloaded Wolfenstein 3D from here and I have a bunch of old CD ROM Macintosh games my dad gave me.

So I finally figured out how to get the Installer 1 & 2 apps out of the disk images and put them in unix so I could put them on the desktop in OS 9.

But it doesn't matter what app I try and open. It says "This document cannot be opened because the application that created it could not be found"

Its really annoying. I downloaded a bunch of stuff to unzip all kinds of things to get this far and now THIS is popping up to ruin my day/night?

Erm, I looked everywhere on here to try and find something about that problem but it is just REALLY frustrating me >.<

Thanks for any help in advance.

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2011, March 12 - 10:10am

bertyboy

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So I finally figured out how to get the Installer 1 & 2 apps out of the disk images and put them in unix so I could put them on the desktop in OS 9

Putting almost any OS9 executable on a unix drive has stripped the resource fork making it unusable.

How to fix it ? We'd need to know a lot more about your setup and other equipment you have available.

2011, March 12 - 6:28pm

bicostp

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Like bertyboy said, unpacking Macintosh executables on anything but a Mac environment will destroy them because Unix, Linux, and Windows don't do resource forks. Anything Mac-related that needs to go onto a Unix or SMB file server must be encapsulated in a disk image, or encoded into a BinHex (.hqx), MacBinary (.bin), or StuffIt (.sit) file. The archive files must be extracted in the OS 9 environment for them to work properly.

If I'm reading your post correctly, you downloaded the zipped disk images from here, unzipped them, used another utility to remove the installer files, then copied those files to OS 9? What you want to do is copy the image files themselves to OS 9, then mount them using Disk Copy. If you do that they will appear on the desktop just like if they were physical floppies in floppy drives.

2011, March 12 - 11:28pm

bertyboy

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Well, Unix can support Mac OS9 files, but you need the special software to make it happen. Aside from Darwin (Mac OSX) we used to use CAP-Aufs (Columbia Appletalk Protocol/Apple-Unix File System) back in the late 1980's. We had an enormous disk array on the Unix boxes, nearly 3GB which we could use as a Mac File Server.

Even so, do like suggested, keep the file compressed, or in disk image format until it gets to the Mac.