Oh good, my expensive Mac won't open an expensive textbook CD ("Classic environment")

Fenika · Jul 17, 2012

Yay progress?

I put a lameness CD in my mac and clicked the CD file and then clicked the StartMe file and got:

You can't open the application StartMe because the Classic environment is no longer supported.

I looked around the internet and got two answers: Find another computer / old Mac; and Try this buggy patch.

Yeahhh.

I really don't want to watch equine lameness on my 13" netbook PC. I want to watch it on my big expensive Mac. The CD is from 03 and apparently apple made some change in 05.

Help?

amergina · Jul 17, 2012

If the videos on the disk are accessible, I'd try just double clicking on those directly. Video formats haven't changed that much...

But yeah, Apple deprecated the OS9-like environment a couple of OSs ago.

Fenika · Jul 17, 2012

>>
<<

Hey, I can see a forest through these trees now

Okay, that works. The menu and chapter selection aren't required, and it looks like all the other folders contain generally useless stuff. The installation booklet implies the videos are the only useful info too.

Uh, lock thread?

Pyekett · Jul 17, 2012

My Mac isn't so much expensive as reliable, rather thoughtful and--I must say--unspeakably generous.

Fenika · Jul 17, 2012

One day I will remember not to put 'Mac' in these titles. Dire.

kuwisdelu · Jul 17, 2012

Fenika said:
Yay progress?

I put a lameness CD in my mac and clicked the CD file and then clicked the StartMe file and got:

You can't open the application StartMe because the Classic environment is no longer supported.

I looked around the internet and got two answers: Find another computer / old Mac; and Try this buggy patch.

Yeahhh.

I really don't want to watch equine lameness on my 13" netbook PC. I want to watch it on my big expensive Mac. The CD is from 03 and apparently apple made some change in 05.

Help?

Good god! It was expecting the Classic environment? I suppose that makes some iota of sense if the CD is from 2003, but even then...

The operating system your CD was designed for was deprecated over a decade ago. It's the equivalent of trying to run a DOS program on Windows 7.

You might try something like Sheepshaver to emulate OS 9.

Fenika · Jul 17, 2012

That's the buggy program; unless new releases are better...

Cheers.

Oh good, my expensive Mac won't open an expensive textbook CD ("Classic environment")

Fenika

amergina

Pittsburgh Strong

Fenika

Pyekett

I need no hot / Words.

Fenika

kuwisdelu

Revolutionize the World

Fenika