NO: Sheepshasver journey ----

[Doug Easterbrook]

Thanks to all that replied publicly and privately.

I now have a 35 year old version of Theatre Manager (omnis 3+) running on Big Sur (using sheep shaver)…

hardest part was setting up the file associations since finder, back then, was very dependant on the resource fork and finder bits.



Next journey, getting Omnis 7+ and that version of Theatre Manager to run.


it is so nice to look back at nostalga and reflect on  ‘is that all that it took to make a product’.         The interface we made was so simplistic to fit on a 9” mac plus screen.        and Omnis still runs, 35 years later.



thanks again.




Doug Easterbrook
Arts Management Systems Ltd.
mailto:doug at artsman.com
http://www.artsman.com
Phone (403) 650-1978

> On September 21, 2021, at 12:48 PM, Jim Creak <jim at jacsoft.co.nz> wrote:
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> Do any of these links work?
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> 	https://winworldpc.com/product/omnis/3x <https://winworldpc.com/product/omnis/3x>
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> Thanks
> Jim
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> JACSoft Programming Ltd. <http://www.jacsoft.co.nz/main.shtml>
>> On 22/09/2021, at 3:16 am, Doug Easterbrook <doug at artsman.com <mailto:doug at artsman.com>> wrote:
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>> hi Jim.
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>> I admit — you sent me on a journey to try to recover my lost years looking at code I’d written in omnis 3+
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>> after some noodling the internet, I now have Mac OS 9.0 running on my Catalina machine.     Its a bit of a coded journey —which seems to be intent on not making it easy..
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>> yet -- ’ta da’’..  OS 9.0 looks gloriously familiar at the same time as looking gloriously ancient.   how did we all work with that?
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>> I have my omnis 3+ runtime and libraries all available but the strike out so far is that os 9 is not recognizing the executable.   which, I’m guessing, is because the resource fork or something is missing.
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>> so, to the list..   anybody have omnis 3+. version 3.0.7 developer version as disk images or executable hanging around.     save in a Zip or hqx file to preserve the programs ability to execute.
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>> I also tried my own older omnis 7 installers…. and darn.. the installers crash … but at least its a start.
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>> Doug Easterbrook
>> Arts Management Systems Ltd.
>> mailto:doug at artsman.com <mailto:doug at artsman.com>
>> http://www.artsman.com <http://www.artsman.com/>
>> Phone (403) 650-1978
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