I've substantially revised the system I put together that uses SheepShaver to run WPMac in a window on the OS X desktop. It now prints directly to any printer ...
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Phillip
pjonescet
Oct 8, 2011 5:33 pm
Just received messge from John R and installed the latest version of Sheepshaver/WP Can Open but keeps coming up with Numeric operation too large. May have to...
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John R
jrethorst
Oct 8, 2011 9:21 pm
Which message was this? My most recent SS/WP package dates from 31 July. IAC I don't know what to recommend for this symptom. Maybe just a restart might help. ...
7030
Phillip M. Jones,C.E.T.
pjonescet
Oct 9, 2011 12:13 am
Numeric Operations too large Also a lot of beeping when Trying to close. I quit several times and retried. this message kept coming up as fast as you could...
7031
em315
Oct 9, 2011 4:08 am
Are you referring to John's program called SheepShaver-WP or my version named "WPMacAPP";? They're completely different things. Please tell us the exact name of...
7032
Phillip M. Jones,C.E.T.
pjonescet
Oct 9, 2011 4:23 pm
The one that claims to be an appliance. IT loads SheepShaver and WordPerfect its all in one. The window is workable but awfully small. It goes into error...
7033
Phillip M. Jones,C.E.T.
pjonescet
Oct 9, 2011 4:24 pm
WPmacPPC.app is the name. the DMG file is WPMacPPC Installer. dmg was the link I clicked on in John R message....
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em315
Oct 10, 2011 12:48 am
That message was not sent by John, but seems to be a very old message by me. What you are looking for is John's SheepShaver/WP setup. You can find it at the...
7035
em315
Oct 10, 2011 3:31 pm
I've looked into this, and you seem to be referring to message 6916, which I sent in June of this year. That seems to be the most recent message that refers to...
7037
John R
jrethorst
Oct 17, 2011 12:15 am
... I'm not sure about this, and less sure all the time, as Ed's WPMacApp continues to receive intensive and high-quality development, and now has several...
7038
em315
Oct 17, 2011 2:02 pm
... Yes, but I write Applescript by throwing bits of code into the Applescript editor until they stick, while John actually knows how to write fast, efficient...
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Rick Albright
logres0
Oct 18, 2011 3:15 am
I must be missing something. When I try to run these apps, I get a message saying that the Classic environment is no longer supported. I have SheepShaver...
7040
John R
jrethorst
Oct 18, 2011 4:07 am
If you got Font Sampler from the Files section here, toss it since the actual version 1.0 has just now been posted. Are you running these apps within...
7041
John R
jrethorst
Oct 18, 2011 4:15 am
This creates samples of fonts installed on your computer, with your choice of text, fonts, sizes, and attributes, e.g. italics and bold. More flexible than...
7042
John Kaufmann
j0kaufmann
Oct 18, 2011 4:57 am
John, ... Unfortunately I can't sample your Sampler (since a daughter took the Mac to school), but I'm intrigued: In WP 4 or 5 (early 90s) on AOS, DOS and ...
7043
em315
Oct 18, 2011 1:17 pm
John's ingenious macro-and-Applescript combination reads the list of available fonts from WordPerfect's Font... menu and lets you choose the names of the fonts...
7044
em315
Oct 18, 2011 1:27 pm
This is really excellent - and an example of the intelligent programming I mentioned in an earlier message. One warning to first-time users: the first time the...
7045
R.C
rjtc5
Oct 19, 2011 5:14 pm
I downloaded and installed the WPMacApp last week on a iMac 1.25 Power PC running OS 10.5. My machine is partitioned w/ OS 10.5 and 10.4.11 running Classic....
7046
em315
Oct 19, 2011 5:47 pm
... I don't know. You might ask on the SheepShaver forum at www.emaculation.com. Ask for methods of accessing an AppleShare server in SheepShaver. If there's...
7047
Rich Casey
rjtc5
Oct 19, 2011 6:25 pm
... thank you for your quick reply. I had already done this to no avail. In 10.4 running classic, i select the document and hit command-I. At this point, open...
7048
em315
Oct 19, 2011 7:20 pm
... I don't have Classic running on any machine right now, so I hope someone else can help with an answer. If a document has been changed so that its type is...
7049
nealdennis
Oct 19, 2011 9:22 pm
You, sir, are a GOD!...
7050
Chad Smith
gimpshopdotnet
Oct 19, 2011 9:23 pm
Hello, I know this group is primarily about WordPerfect, but with all the effort put into maintaining a working "Classic" environment after Apple removed the ...
7051
Jon Kreisler
jonkreisler
Oct 19, 2011 10:29 pm
PPC apps on an Intel requires Rosetta. Apple dropped Rosetta when constructing Lion. While it may be possible some project may be working on a Rosetta-like...
7052
em315
Oct 20, 2011 12:40 pm
Unfortunately, any Mac hardware first released this summer or later will only boot into Lion or later versions, not into Snow Leopard. So you can't use new...
7053
Mikeca
mikesreach
Oct 20, 2011 6:10 pm
Apple actually bought the limited rights to Rosetta (which allowed PPC programs to run in Leopard). And that limit was time... Pretty certain Rosetta could be...
7054
Randy B. Singer
randybrucesi...
Oct 21, 2011 11:54 am
... My guess is that Rosetta is permanently gone, and that you won't be seeing any sort of replacement for it, ever. First off, Rosetta wasn't an Apple...
7055
Chad Smith
gimpshopdotnet
Oct 21, 2011 5:08 pm
Thanks everyone The news is quite disappointing, but I do appreciate the insight. Thank you for taking the time and effort to explain the situation so well. ...
7056
sardisson
Oct 21, 2011 5:22 pm
... It's not clear from that article (at least not from the English translation), but even if Rosetta-the-process was able to run on 10.7, Apple removed the...
7057
em315
Oct 21, 2011 5:55 pm
... Of course you can run Boot Camp in new machines, and anything else that is NOT OS X but which you can run in a separate partition. However, you absolutely...
