NO: Sheepshasver journey ----

[Juan Bofill]

Very very cool.

Juan

> On Sep 25, 2021, at 12:29 PM, Doug Easterbrook <doug at artsman.com> wrote:
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> Thanks to all that replied publicly and privately.
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> I now have a 35 year old version of Theatre Manager (omnis 3+) running on Big Sur (using sheep shaver)…
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> hardest part was setting up the file associations since finder, back then, was very dependant on the resource fork and finder bits.
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> Next journey, getting Omnis 7+ and that version of Theatre Manager to run.
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> 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.
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> thanks again.
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> Doug Easterbrook
> Arts Management Systems Ltd.
> mailto:doug at artsman.com
> http://www.artsman.com
> Phone (403) 650-1978
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>> 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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