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Hypercard running problem free on MacBook Pro - Snow Leopard!

including fully functional Reports Data Pro

How stable is it? Can you print from OS9? How about access to the
network?

Would love to know....

Tim Selander
Tokyo, Japan

On 2/25/11 9:29 AM, firewiredartist wrote:
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> Hypercard running problem free on MacBook Pro - Snow Leopard!
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> including fully functional Reports Data Pro
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> SheepShaver on a password protected USB thumb drive.
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> Hypercard stacks reside on the SheepShaver disk.
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> Easy file transfer between OS X documents folder (UNIX)
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> and the OS 9.0.4 environment.
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> screen cap <http://www.consciousbling.com/my_holy_grail.png>;
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> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

I`m still struggling to read my 800KB disks and transfer data to 1.44Mb floppies for OS X 10.3.9
Gene

I am currently printing to a file which is easily moved to OS X
and opened as a PDF. I will be testing printing directly to printer
this week, which I expect to work as Classic has worked in Tiger.
I have not yet tested networking because I haven't had a use for it
but will experiment more.
Previous attempts at using SheepShaver, were not consistent with
data from Hypercard moving between the SheepShaver OS9 and Tiger Classic OS9
but this no longer seems to be a problem with my current configuration.
An announcement from Apple stating that a new Leopard version of Calendar
will be required to sync between devices made finding a solution a priority,
as we have been running Tiger on 2 machines for Hypercard compatibility.


--- In HyperCard-Mailing-List, Tim Selander <selander@...> wrote:
>
> How stable is it? Can you print from OS9? How about access to the
> network?
>
> Would love to know....
>
> Tim Selander
> Tokyo, Japan
>
> On 2/25/11 9:29 AM, firewiredartist wrote:
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> >
> >
> > Hypercard running problem free on MacBook Pro - Snow Leopard!
> >
> > including fully functional Reports Data Pro
> >
> > SheepShaver on a password protected USB thumb drive.
> >
> > Hypercard stacks reside on the SheepShaver disk.
> >
> > Easy file transfer between OS X documents folder (UNIX)
> >
> > and the OS 9.0.4 environment.
> >
> > screen cap <http://www.consciousbling.com/my_holy_grail.png>;
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>

I can't believe! My beloved Reports Data Pro in Snow Leopard! I'm crying!
Seriously, I was happy with NTF Reports DataPro software but I dropped in version 2.9.9.
I'm looking for version 3 for years without success.
How could I buy / get a copy?
Thank you

Xavier Garcia
Barcelona

At 16:32 +0000 2011.02.25, firewiredartist wrote:

> I will be testing printing directly to printer
>this week, which I expect to work as Classic has worked in Tiger.

My experience with Classic under Tiger is that the only reliable way
to print is to print to a file. That produces a .ps file that Preview
prints just fine.

If I forget to print to file, with most applications the printed data
just disappear somewhere and I have to try again. (Are the data still
using disk space somewhere? Who knows?) One application, I forget
which one, can print successfully from Classic but the printing is
slower than what I get from the Mac OS.

Still, I love this thread. If good results continue to be reported
I'll probably replace my aging G4 by a modern machine, and
Sheepsaver. I'm excited!

Art Evans