Metro in classic requires........

[Scoot]

Going through virtual instruments to help muser I was working in OS9.
It was probably never helpful as I think he runs a mac that can't boot in 9 but only runs classic. So I thought I'd run Metro in classic under OSX.

When Metro boots you get a warning box saying - This program requires either the VIA (Timer 1) and the SCC, Extended Time Manager or OMS to run.

Can you get the non OMS parts from anywhere or are they all part of OS9 making Metro not run in classic?

[Jerm]

Metro will not run in classic mode... period. If you need to run in OS 9 you must boot into OS 9.

[Scoot]

What we all need is more of the 3rd party plugins in OSX

[cornutt]

It was probably never helpful as I think he runs a mac that can't boot in 9 but only runs classic. So I thought I'd run Metro in classic under OSX.

Hmm, I'm not sure I follow that. AFAIK, if it will run Classic it should be capable of booting into 9. (Or do you mean it's impractical for him to boot into 9 because of other stuff he needs to do?)

Apologies to you scooterman if you already know all this, but for the uninitiated...

The reason it won't run in Classic is because, when you boot up (real) OS 9, it has access to the full resources of the system. On the other hand, when 9 runs as Classic, there are resources that OS X owns and it won't permit Classic to access them the way it's used to. (In days gone by, it's been standard practice in the Mac world for programs to access system resources at a low level. That was fast and the techniques were well known, but it also contributed to crashes because access wasn't controlled and programs could interfere by trying to take resources away from each other. Most Mac extension conflicts were due to this sort of thing. In X, the operating system controls access and prevents conflicts, but it does mean that programmers have to do things a new way. X cannot let programs running under Classic do things the old way because then it would be right back where it started, crash-wise.)

[Jerm]

Cornutt,

I think Scooterman is referring to the fact that Apple's new machines will not boot into OS 9. They only support OS 9 through classic mode.

The main reason that Metro will not work in classic mode is because OMS does not work.

[Scoot]

>X cannot let programs running under Classic do things the old way because then it would be right back where it started, crash-wise.)

And I thought everytime I see System 9.2 running in OSX - expect a crash at anytime - just like the old days!