L Shaeffer wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I was trying to spiff up the ol' SE yesterday and I ran into a problem.
>
> I downloaded several programs and games (thanks, System 6 Heaven!)on my
> roommate's PC. I saved them to the zip drive, then unstuffed them on my
> iMac. After I got the programs to the SE, it said that the application or
> program that created the files was missing. This can't be right, as I have
> Hypercard 2.2 on the SE and some of the things I downloaded were Hypercard
> Stacks. Where did I go wrong? I'm running system 6.0.7 on the SE.
[snip]
I've seen a similar problem between my ppc, Plus and pee-cee. It
seems to have something to do with the Mac not knowing where the
proper parent apps are located and/or multiple versions of software
and OS's competing. I believe this is a function of Easy Open on the
Mac side ...
Have you tried launching the particular programs from Hypercard? Or
were you clicking on the items in Finder? What do the icons on the
Hypercard stacks look like? If it is a blue 'PC' then application
association is almost definitely the issue. Having used what is
probably a PC-formatted Zip disk during the process, then the Blue
'PC' is likely an issue.
To recreate the issue (as I see it): Under 6.x.x, try going to the
system folder and activating a control panel document manually. Same
error as yours, "The file 'Brightness' could not be opened/printed
(the application is busy or missing)." You can get to the control
panels only through the control panel app. But this is how System 6
works ...
If Hypercard is on the iMac (is this possible?), or if the iMac
assigned even a different version number to the files properties, then
file associations could be the issue.
There is probably a res-edit hack to change the file type, or you
might want to move off the Easy Open prefs on the SE ... or you might
want to extract the files on the destination SE and bypass the middle
party all-together.
I hope this helps! -d
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