Download Mac Classic Environment for Os X
To exist able to use the Archetype environment (and thus Archetype applications), you demand to install and configure the Classic surroundings you want to apply. After these tasks are accomplished, you tin can run the environment to run Archetype applications.
When you lot installed Mac OS X, you should have also installed Mac OS 9.ii, preferably on a different division than Mac OS Ten is installed on (although they can be installed on the same sectionalisation). You tin can also have more than one volume containing Mac OS nine.2 on a unmarried machine. Each example of Mac Os 9.two can exist used to provide a different Archetype environment. The platonic scenario is to accept three partitions on your machine: one for Mac OS Ten, one for the Mac Os ix surround you volition use for running Classic, and some other Mac Os 9 that you lot will employ to run the machine nether Mac Bone 9 straight. Yet, two partitions?one for Mac OS X and one for Mac OS 9?works very well. The least desirable configuration is to have only one partition on your machine (with both Mac Os Ten and Mac OS nine installed on information technology).
Installing a Classic Surround
The proficient news is that if you accept installed Mac OS X, yous already have installed a Classic surround.
If yous installed Mac Os 10 on a automobile that already had a previous version of the Os on information technology, y'all had two fundamental choices as to where to install it. You could install it on the aforementioned volume as the ane on which you installed Mac Bone nine.2, or you could cull a different volume.
Hopefully, you chose to install Mac Bone Ten on a carve up volume from Mac Os nine.2. This configuration is a bit cleaner to work with because Mac Os 9.ii and Mac OS X resources are conspicuously separated and information technology is somewhat easier to work with them. It as well makes repairing either version of the OS easier because you lot can cull to erase one volume without affecting the other volumes you use. If both operating systems are installed on the same book, making changes to one operating arrangement can bear on the other besides.
However, installing Mac OS X on the same volume as Mac Bone ix.two as well works; the organization of each system'southward resources is just a chip more complex. The primary drawback is that if you take problems with the single-volume configuration, it tin exist more difficult to troubleshoot and repair.
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Installing Mac Bone Ten on the aforementioned book as Mac OS nine.two is called installing Mac OS X over Mac OS ix.2. This terminology tin can exist confusing because it implies that the Mac OS 9.two software was erased, but that isn't the case.
Whatever way you installed it, somewhere on your Mac is a folder containing the Mac Bone 9.two resource (see Figure 7.ane).
Figure seven.one. On this desktop, y'all see ane Finder window showing the figurer directory; this car has two partitions (one for Mac Bone 9 and 1 for Mac Os X). The other Finder window shows the contents of the Mac Os 9 volume, which includes the highlighted Mac Bone 9 System Folder.
If you open your Mac Bone 9.2 volume, the items you come across include the following:
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System Folder The Mac OS 9.ii Organisation Binder contains all the software needed to run Mac Os 9.2. Its icon includes a 9 to place it as a version of Mac Bone ix.
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Desktop Folder The Desktop Folder on your Mac Os ix.2 volume is the desktop folder for Mac Os 9.2 but. This is the desktop you will run into when you restart your Mac in Mac OS ix.2.
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Applications (Mac Bone 9) This folder is the default location for Classic applications that are installed equally part of the Mac OS 9.2 installation. You tin can install Mac OS nine.2 applications anywhere on your Mac Bone ix.2 volume. Withal, it is helpful to go along your Mac OS ix applications too organized as Mac Os Ten applications are; this is a lot easier if yous use the Applications (Mac Bone 9) folder for Classic applications and the Bone X Applications binder for Carbon and Cocoa applications.
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Documents This folder contains the default certificate folders for Mac Os 9.2, such as Installer Logs, Web pages, and then on. Many Classic applications, such as iTunes and Microsoft Function, shop user-specific information hither too.
Notation
If you lot installed Mac Bone ix.2 on a divide volume from that on which yous installed Mac Bone Ten, yous might see the Desktop (Mac OS 9) folder on your Mac Bone X desktop every bit in Figure 7.1. You can open this folder to access the items installed on your Mac Os 9.two desktop. If y'all installed Mac Bone X over Mac OS nine.2, you lot won't see this folder on your desktop. To access the Mac Bone 9.ii Desktop Folder, you lot will have to open up your Mac Bone nine.2 volume.
Configuring the Classic Environment
You lot control the configuration and behavior of the Classic surround using the Classic pane of the System Preferences utility (run into Figure vii.2).
Figure 7.ii. You command various aspects of the Classic environment, such as which Mac Os nine.two Arrangement Binder is used, with the Classic pane of the System Preferences utility.
This pane has iii tabs: First/Stop, Advanced, and Memory/Versions. Every bit you might expect, the offset deals with starting and stopping the environment. The Advanced pane enables you to configure various aspects of the Classic environment. The Memory/Versions tab enables y'all to monitor the processes that are running in the archetype environs, including how much of the Archetype environment's retentivity allocation each Classic awarding is using.
Nether the Start/Stop tab, you lot will see a window in which you can select the startup volume for Classic. As you read earlier, y'all can take more than than one version of Mac Bone 9.2 installed on the same automobile. You might want to do this to go along one "clean" version that contains just default Mac Bone 9.2 system software. This tin can be your test surroundings. Other environments can include third-party software that you use. Y'all utilize the startup volume list to control which of the installed Mac OS 9.ii installations Classic uses.
When Classic starts, you have two options that chronicle to the extensions that are function of the Mac OS 9.2 system when it starts upwardly; these options are configured on the Advanced tab. These options specify to have all extensions turned off or to apply Extensions Manager to choose the startup set of extensions that are used for the Classic environment. You configure the startup extension options on the Avant-garde tab of the Archetype pane (meet Effigy vii.3).
Figure vii.3. Using the Avant-garde tab of the Classic pane, y'all can control the configuration of the System Folder for the Archetype environs.
If you lot choose to open Classic with no extensions, you will move directly into the Archetype environment.
If yous choose to apply the Extensions Director to control the extensions used in the Classic environment, Extensions Manager will open the next fourth dimension you restart Classic. You can and then configure the extension gear up you desire to use.
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If you use a Mac that was produced before Jan 2003, y'all can also boot under Mac OS 9.2 and utilise Extensions Manager to create custom startup sets for your Mac Os 9.2 environment. Then, you lot tin can cull the extension set y'all want to use when you start the Archetype surround. The details of using Extensions Managing director are beyond the scope of this volume. For assist with the Mac OS 9 Extensions Manager, run into my volume The Guide to Mac OS 9.
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A third option on the Startup Options pop-up menu is Use Key Combination. If yous cull this, you can set a keyboard shortcut to utilize to first or restart the Classic environment. To practice so, cull the Use Key Combination option on the Startup Options popular-up carte and then press up to five keys that you want to be the shortcut. (You tin click Clear Keys to remove the keyboard shortcut yous created.) When you employ the keyboard shortcut, the other startup option you chose (for example, Turn Off Extensions) will be used when you lot start or restart Classic.
To configure your Classic environs, use the post-obit steps:
Open the Archetype pane of the System Preferences utility (information technology is in the System section) and click the Start/Stop tab. The application will search all the volumes mounted on your Mac and volition display those that contain a valid Mac OS nine startup volume. Choose the specific Mac Bone nine.two System Folder that the Classic surround should employ in the Select a organisation folder for Classic list. (If there is simply one installation of Mac OS 9.2 on your Mac, it volition be the only choice you lot have and will be selected automatically.) If you want Classic to beginning up each time you log in to your Mac, check the "Outset Classic when you log in" check box. This option is useful if you regularly use Classic applications, because you don't have to wait for Classic to start the offset time you launch a Classic awarding. If yous are like me and use Classic applications simply occasionally, don't use this option. The Classic environs does use system resources, so you shouldn't have it open if you aren't using Classic applications. Considering Classic opens so quickly nether x.2, it isn't painful to wait for information technology to open when you open a Classic application. If you want to see a warning dialog before Classic starts upwardly, check the "Warn earlier starting Classic" check box. Click the Avant-garde tab. Choose the startup selection you want from the Startup Options pop-up menu; in most cases, Open Extensions Manager is the best choice. If you lot don't want whatsoever extensions to load, cull Turn Off Extensions instead. If you want to have Archetype preferences that are specific to your user business relationship, cheque the "Use preferences from home folder" bank check box. This causes your extensions, startup, Apple menu, and other Mac Os 9 preferences to be stored in your Domicile folder. And so, should another user reconfigure the Archetype surround, your setup will not be affected. Gear up the amount of inactive time before Classic goes to sleep by using the slider. To preserve the resources information technology uses, Classic goes to sleep when no Classic applications are running or when the amount of inactive time attack the slider passes. Because Classic is an application, having it go inactive is useful, because it then requires fewer system resources. The amount of inactive time you should set up depends on the resources your Mac has. If y'all have lots of RAM and a fast processor, yous tin can prepare a longer slumber time and avert the time lag that occurs when Classic wakes upwards when you move in and out of the Classic surroundings. If you accept limited resources, use a shorter inactive time so that more resources are available to other applications when you lot aren't actively using a Classic application. Quit the System Preferences utility.
Running the Classic Environs
Because the Archetype environs is an application, you must open it when y'all want to employ information technology. There are several ways to launch the Classic environment:
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Launch a Archetype application.
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Open up the Start/Cease tab of the Archetype pane of the Organization Preferences utility and click Starting time.
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Open the Advanced tab of the Classic pane of the Organization Preferences utility, cull the startup choice you want, and click Start Classic if Classic is non running or Restart Classic if information technology is already running.
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Printing the keyboard combination that you set using the pop-up menu on the Advanced tab of the Archetype pane.
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Use the Classic pane of the System Preferences utility to accept Classic start up on login and so log in to the figurer.
When the Classic environment starts up, you can view the Classic Environment window by switching to the Classic icon on the Dock (Classic startup is hidden by default). This window contains a progress bar to show you how the startup process is proceeding. At the pinnacle of the window, you lot see the Mac OS 9.2 book you lot are using. You lot will also see the Terminate button that yous can use to abort the startup process. Past default, the window is complanate and so these elements are all y'all see. If y'all click the Expansion triangle on the left side of the Classic window, yous will see a larger window that shows the traditional Mac Bone nine startup screen, complete with the "marching" icons equally the Classic environs starts upwardly.
If yous chose to have extensions off or if you lot started Classic in whatever way except from the buttons on the Advanced tab, the Classic window volition disappear when the environs is running.
If yous started Classic from the Avant-garde tab and chose the Extensions Manager startup option, you will see the Extensions Manager window (meet Figure 7.4).
Figure 7.four. When you start upwardly the Classic surroundings using the Open Extensions Manager option, you can use Extensions Manager to configure the Mac OS ix.2 organisation that Classic uses.
 | If you see a dialog box asking you to update your Classic-specific resource, see "I Accept to Update My Archetype Resources" in the Troubleshooting section at the end of this chapter. |
Use Extensions Manager to configure the Mac OS 9.two system you want to employ. For example, turn off extensions you don't need. Y'all can also create sets of extensions then that yous can quickly configure the Classic environment for specific tasks (such as enabling the extensions associated with specific hardware devices). After y'all have configured Extensions Director, click Keep.
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If y'all have used previous versions of the Mac OS, you are probably familiar with extensions, control panels, and the Extensions Director utility. If not, refer to a Mac Bone nine resources, such equally my volume The Mac OS 9 Guide.
After you have clicked Continue in Extensions Manager or if you have chosen to start up Classic using another selection, you will come across the familiar Mac OS nine.2 startup screen. The outset time y'all start the Classic surroundings from a specific Mac Bone nine.2 volume, you lot will enter the Mac Bone Setup Assistant utility. Use this utility to configure the Mac Os 9.two installation.
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The kickoff time you lot get-go up Classic with a specific Mac Bone 9 environment, you lot will see a dialog box asking whether it is okay for Mac OS 10 to install some Archetype-specific resources into the Mac Os ix System Folder y'all accept selected as your Classic environment. You must choose OK to be able to use the selected environment for Archetype. This is one reason that it can exist meliorate to install a Mac OS ix volume that is dedicated to running Classic. You can then maintain another Mac Os nine book that has no Mac Os X resources installed in information technology for starting up under Mac Os 9.
| | If y'all come across a warning dialog box about Airdrome, see "Classic Doesn't Support What I Am Doing" in the Troubleshooting section at the end of this chapter. |
Subsequently you have completed the Mac Setup Assistant, you have the option of running the Cyberspace Setup Assistant to configure your Classic environment for the Cyberspace. Most of the time, y'all volition use Mac Bone 10 to connect to the Net considering it includes Mac Bone Ten applications to do so; however, you tin can as well access the Internet under Archetype. If you do need to connect to the Internet from within Classic, it should work without running the Internet Setup Assistant because the Classic Environment volition choice upwards your network settings from Mac OS 10. And so, yous tin can safely quit the Cyberspace Setup Banana without making whatever changes in information technology.
Notation
Configuring various Mac Bone 9.two options is beyond the scope of this affiliate. For help working with Mac Os 9.two, run across my volume The Mac Os 9 Guide.
After the Archetype surround launches, what you see depends on how you started it. If you launched Classic by launching a Classic application, you lot volition run across the awarding. If you launched the Archetype environment without opening a Classic awarding, you will return to the Mac Os 10 desktop. If you used the Archetype pane of the System Preferences utility to start Classic, you volition return in that location.
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To see whether Classic is running, open the Classic pane of the Organization Preferences utility. Just higher up the startup volume selection window, you will see a message most the condition of the Classic environment (such as "Classic is running") when the Classic environs is running.
The Classic environment continues to run until i of the post-obit events happens:
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You manually stop it.
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Y'all log out of Mac OS X.
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Recollect that the Classic environment sleeps subsequently the amount of inactive fourth dimension you lot specify in the Archetype pane of the System Preferences utility.
Decision-making the Archetype Environment
You tin can control the Classic environment in the following means:
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Log out to close it.
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Click the Stop button on the Start/Terminate tab of the Archetype pane in the System Preferences utility.
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Click Restart on the Start/Stop tab of the Classic pane in the Organization Preferences utility to restart information technology.
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Click Force Quit on the Beginning/Finish tab of the Archetype pane in the System Preferences utility to strength it to quit.
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Press Pick+
+Escape to bring up the Forcefulness Quit Applications window; so choose Classic Environment, click Force Quit, and click Force Quit a 2nd time to force information technology to quit.
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Click Restart Archetype on the Advanced tab of the Archetype pane in the Organisation Preferences utility to restart it.
CAUTION
When you stop the Classic environs, all Classic applications will be stopped also. During a normal shutdown, this is not a trouble because you lot volition exist prompted to salve any unsaved changes to open documents. However, when you force the Classic environs to quit, all unsaved changes are lost. You should merely force Classic to quit when you have no other option.
| | If your Archetype environment locks up and seems to have stopped responding, see "My Classic Environment Is Hung Upwards" in the Troubleshooting section at the end of this chapter. |
To keep things running efficiently, stop the Archetype environment when you are done using Classic applications if your Mac has limited RAM or other resources.
When y'all want to restart your Archetype environment using a different set of extensions, open the Advanced tab of the Classic pane of the System Preferences utility. Choose the Open up Extensions Director startup option and click the Restart Archetype button.
When you accept Classic startup at login or when you apply the controls on the Get-go/Cease tab of the Classic pane, the environment starts upwards using the ready of extensions that were virtually recently used. To change the configuration used without using the Extensions Director, you will have to configure the environs manually.
Configuring the Archetype Environment Manually
You can manually configure the Classic environs by manipulating the files in its System Binder. For example, you can add or remove startup or shutdown items.
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If your Mac was produced before Jan 2003, you tin also make configuration changes using the Extensions Managing director while running nether Mac OS 9.2.
The full general steps to configure the Classic environment manually are the following:
Open a Finder window for the Mac OS 9.2 System Folder you apply for the Classic environment. Open the Extensions folder and movement any extensions you lot want to disable to the Extensions (Disabled) folder. Notation If you accept never used the Extensions Manager selection, y'all might have to create the (Disabled) folders yourself. If you have used Extensions Manager, the folders will be created for you. Open the Command Panels folder and movement control panels you lot want to disable to the Control Panels (Disabled) folder. Place aliases of any items yous want to launch when Classic starts in the Startup Items binder. Place aliases of any items you desire to launch when Classic stops in the Shutdown Items folder. Place aliases of documents or Archetype applications in the Apple Bill of fare Items folder. Shut the Finder window.
The side by side time you outset the Classic environment, information technology volition reflect the changes you made.
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If y'all have a Mac that was produced before January 2003, another way to configure your Classic environment is to boot in Mac Bone 9 and configure the organisation there. And then, when you lot start the Classic environment, it volition use that configuration. To create Extensions Manager sets from which to choose when you use the Extensions Manager startup option, yous tin can restart nether Mac OS 9, run Extensions Manager, and create the startup sets yous desire to have available. So, start up in Mac Bone X over again, and restart the Classic environment using the Extensions Manager choice. You can choose the startup sets you create when Archetype starts upwardly.
Monitoring Resources Being Used past the Classic Environment
 | The Memory/Versions tab of the Classic pane enables you lot to monitor the operation and resource use of the Classic environment. This tin can be helpful when troubleshooting Classic or just to see how many organization resources the Classic surroundings is consuming. |
Open the Classic pane of the Organisation Preferences Utility. Click the Memory/Versions tab. Yous will come across a list of the Classic applications that are currently running, along with the memory usage. The memory usage is shown as X/Y, where Ten is the amount currently existence used and Y is the total memory allocation for that procedure or application within the Classic surround. To see all the processes running under archetype, cheque the "Testify background processes" check box. All system and awarding processes volition exist shown in the window (run into Effigy vii.five). View the details of your Classic environs (such as the version number) in the lower-left corner of the pane.
Figure vii.5. Here, you can see that I am running the Archetype version of Photoshop. You lot also see the Classic background processes that are running.
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