Re: Warcraft 2 & Classic

[Robert Howells]

On 01/05/2005, at 9:43 PM, Rosie Cable wrote:

This is Warcraft 2 saga driving me spare. I think I've cleaned the 
disc so well, it looks newer than new.


I know the game is close to wanting to play, but just can't get there.

Is there a way that I can keep the system running in Classic.

Whenever I open classic, and try to do anything with the game, OSX 
over-rides Classic and closes it down. Could this be part of the 
problem?


Hi Rosie,
In OSX preferences - Classic 9 - Advanced
there is a setting for putting Classic to sleep ... try extending the 
time 

if it was in uset Classic should not shut down but ... funny
things happen sometimes that you do not expect.


And your Ram would need to be large ... guess 512 Mb or larger .

Bob





Is there a way of opening classic and staying in that environment 
without it being overridden by OSX. I've tried creating an alias on 
the desktop, but I am told "Item Classic is used by Mac OS X and 
cannot be opened".


Any tips appreciated.

Regards
Rosie :-)


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Warcraft 2 & Classic

[Rosie Cable]

Hi Tim & Greg

I've just checked the disc on the Performa for missing files. No 
problems there.


The disc has a couple of barely obvious scuffs on it, but I wouldn't 
say that it is badly scratched. It's really clean.


Other Classic applications work okay on this computer.

I also have 768 Mb of Ram on this computer, and like Tim, Classic quits 
when I try to open the game. I guess it must be a disc error.


Greg, sounds like you must have the only copy of Warcraft II, that I am 
aware of,  that actually works on an EMac.


Regards
Rosie :-)

Free: LC Ethernet Cards

[Paul Tetley]

A year (or two?) back I gave away some old LC gear to some people who 
were operating a small network of these wonderful, though horribly 
outdated, machines.


During a cleanup I have just found two (still boxed and shrink-wrapped) 
Ethernet cards for LC 475 (or similar).


Free to anyone who can use them.

:-)
Paul Tetley

Warcraft 2 & Classic

[Rosie Cable]

Hi Robert

Tried your tip. I checked and found that I had already set the sleep 
time to 'never'. Tried loading while in Classic, but it closed Classic 
down.


Regards
Rosie :-)

PS: Why can't I forward messages onto a thread back to the mailing 
list? DAEMON keeps sending them back to me undelivered. I'm using the 
'Mail' program.

My first Widget - Perth Seabreeze 7-day forecast

[Martin Hill]

Well, it's extremely basic, but I've knocked together my first Widget for
Dashboard in Tiger:
http://mart.ozmac.com/widgets/
(okay, so it's pretty rough and unfinished, but you get the idea)

It is incredibly easy to make a Dashboard widget - No programming required -
Have a go and copy mine and substitute your own web page, change the images
for the icon and background image and the dimensions in the plist file and
viola!

I can see there is going to be a HUGE number of widgets available in the
coming weeks.

My example displays the current 7-day Wind and Waves forecast from
http://seabreeze.com.au
(essential for mad-keen windsurfers like my wife and I)

-Mart

Re: Warcraft 2 & Classic

[Greg Sharp]

The scuffs may indeed seem minor but they may be at a point on the disk that
is critical. Remember the DVD drive is more sensitive to this than CD drive.
You can buy disk cleaning kits but I personally have never tried them.

As I mentioned before, have you tried running the game from the hard disk
with the CD inserted in your old Mac and then try running another copy of
the game copied to the hard disk on your eMac and connecting via LAN to your
old Mac for network play (by the way if you don't have a switch you'll
probably need a crossover cable). You said it works when played from the old
Mac and by doing this you'll find out

1/ if it works then your eMac can play Warcraft 2 and the problem is related
to read problems on the eMac with the disk.
2/ if it still crashes Classic then it's not the CD but instead some other
problem.

By the way my son can play it under Classic on his iBook (combo drive). We
don't have any eMac's so maybe the difference is there somewhere. Another
thing that makes my son's disk unique is he bought it off some guy overseas
who had it for sale in an overseas games forum. When it arrived it wasn't
even an original but instead a burnt copy. So without meaning to my son had
bought a piece of Warez (illegal copy) but at least it did work. But somehow
I don't think this is related to your problem.


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All the best

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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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http://australian.macusersgroup.org




On 2/5/05 2:21 AM, "Rosie Cable" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> The disc has a couple of barely obvious scuffs on it, but I wouldn't
> say that it is badly scratched. It's really clean.
> 
> Other Classic applications work okay on this computer.
> 
> I also have 768 Mb of Ram on this computer, and like Tim, Classic quits
> when I try to open the game. I guess it must be a disc error.
> 
> Greg, sounds like you must have the only copy of Warcraft II, that I am
> aware of,  that actually works on an EMac.

Tiger - any essential apps broken?

[Brett Carboni]

Any major apps broken in Tiger?

Interested especially in ...

Microsoft Office (version 10)
Quark 5
Appleworks
Photoshop

It would be a help to know if these work before upgrading. Quark 5 was a bit
dicky with it's redraws post 10.2 releases.

Brett Carboni
Tsunami
"Sushi evolving with your taste upgrades"

Warcraft 2 & Classic

[Rosie Cable]

To everyone who have provided me with a range of tips to try to sort 
out this problem, thanking you all very much. Your support has been 
appreciated.


I went surfing on the net over the past few hours, and believe that I 
have finallyfound the solution to this problem. I visited a page on the 
net:


http://vintageware.orcon.net.nz/warcraft 2/

and found the following message:

 It doesn't work on Mac OS X!
  The original version of Warcraft II has an incompatibility with 
Mac OS X, where it can't find
  the game CD-ROM. You can join in a network game since up to three 
players can join
  using one CD-ROM, but you can't start a game. The only way to fix 
this is to upgrade to the

  newer Battle,net version of Warcraft II.

Now the next chapter in this saga,will see me searching high and low 
for a retailer who may still have a copy of this game in stock still.


Again, thanx for your support.

Regards
Rosie :-)

Re: An old question about Warcraft 2

[Paul Kitchener]

Greg Sharp wrote:


I went direct to the source, I asked my 17 year old son.

He said 1st copy the program from CD to your computer + any other networked
machines you want to allow LAN gaming on.

Next start the game & when requested insert the CD. Whether playing single
player or via LAN one machine must have the original disk inserted. Players
on other machines log in to this machine for LAN play but aren't required to
have a disk inserted.

He has played it on an old 9500 running OS 9.1, a slot load iMac running OS
9.2.2 and more importantly for your info on a G3 800MHz iBook running OS
9.2.2 under Classic. So it does work under Classic.

I mentioned to him you couldn't get it to run because it kept requesting you
to insert CD even though you already had. He said that happened to him
sometimes but all he did was give the CD a real good clean/wipe and then it
was recognized again. This may be your problem.

Before you say "well it worked on my old machine", I have a theory on that.
Your old machines have plain CD drives in them where as you mentioned your
eMac has a DVD drive. The CD drive may not be as sensitive to
marks/scratches etc than the DVD drive is because of the different
mechanisms/lasers etc. Cleaning it properly should help.

What you could do as an experiment for your own satisfaction is load the
program onto both machines but put the CD in the old one. Then connect for a
LAN game from the eMac to the old one. If the application runs fine under
Classic from the eMac then it will pretty much prove the problem is in the
way the DVD drive on the eMac reads the disk which would help substantiate
my suspicion.

 



In the past I have resurected iffy CDs by making a Disk Image of them 
with Toast and then creating a new disk. Seems to get around some 
scratches etc.


Good Luck
Paul

Re: Quicktime 7 Now Available

[Peter Hinchliffe]

On 29/04/2005, at 10:47 PM, Reg Whitely wrote:


Hi WAMUGgers

Quicktime 7 is now available for download via Software Update. It 
looks good.


Just don't expect to be able to play H264 movies on a G4 400   :-/

Oh, they load and pretend to play, but you can't see any action, just 
the first few frames before they sag and die...


For the first time, I truly cannot do everything I need with this 
machine. Time to go up, finally.



--
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FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer
Perth, Western Australia
Phone (618) 9332 6482Fax (618) 9332 0913

Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to.

Re: Tiger - any essential apps broken?

[matt]

Hi all,

Office and Photoshop both appear to be fine for me.  I did however  
run into some troubles trying to import my old mail messages.  I  
found the following link useful in resolving the issue:





Hope that helps,

Cheers, Matt.


On 02/05/2005, at 3:07 AM, Brett Carboni wrote:



Any major apps broken in Tiger?

Interested especially in ...

Microsoft Office (version 10)
Quark 5
Appleworks
Photoshop

It would be a help to know if these work before upgrading. Quark 5  
was a bit

dicky with it's redraws post 10.2 releases.

Brett Carboni
Tsunami
"Sushi evolving with your taste upgrades"


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goodbye iComics Re: Hello Tiger

[Mark Secker]

Also, I've found that I'm using the icomic interface ( 
http://www.ruxp.net/ )  for reading various online comic strips ... 
archives. It has a neat visual interface which shows which days of 
the month strips were published - makes it easy to go back and view 
past strips.


Seems like it's just Dilbert and Penny-Arcade at the moment, but I 
imagine it'll grow. I'm curious about what effect it might have on 
those sites advertising revenue (if the process takes off).




don't expect too much too soon, rather than grow from here this is 
pretty what it has shrunk down to over the last 2 years or so.
Many sites pulled their own scripts off the download site or even 
changed their site architecture to stop iComic access.


For several reasons:

Loss of click-through  and/or self advertised merchandise revenue. 
Understandable as  most places make pretty slim pickings as it is.


Heavy hits on (the usually substandard) servers that host them when 
people chose to harvest (download in one hit) the entire archive, 
particularly of long running publications like PVP, Sinfest, 
Megatokyo.
Megatokyo, PVP and Creatures in My Head have at one time or another 
blamed server crashes on multiple simultaneous iComic archive 
harvesting)


Changes/upgrades/crossgrades to site management software that 
(intentionally or coincidentally) renders iComics scripts unable to 
access a directory with the actual image file, or sites using flash 
graphics instead of PNG/JPG/GIF format




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~
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ph#6488 1855 (ECEL) 
University of Western Australia - CRICOS Provider No. 00126G
~
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- Miguel de Unamuno
"It takes an idiot to do cool things that's why it's cool"
- Haruhara Haruka (FLCL)

 (sometimes works)

Re: Quicktime 7 Now Available

[Glen Low]

On 02/05/2005, at 8:18 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote:



On 29/04/2005, at 10:47 PM, Reg Whitely wrote:


Hi WAMUGgers

Quicktime 7 is now available for download via Software Update. It 
looks good.


Just don't expect to be able to play H264 movies on a G4 400   :-/

Oh, they load and pretend to play, but you can't see any action, just 
the first few frames before they sag and die...


For the first time, I truly cannot do everything I need with this 
machine. Time to go up, finally.


I have to report that the Quicktime HD trailers are absolutely gorgeous 
in 7. (Running on 10.3.9 at the moment.)


www.apple.com/quicktime/hdgallery/

When I first viewed a regular DVD on my screen it was visibly 
pixellated and I was disappointed before I realized DVD are at most 720 
pixels horizontal. However those  previews I mentioned are HD at 1280 
pixels wide. Also resizing the video window was extremely responsive, 
reminded me of Phil's demo's at the WWDC roadshow.


The Serenity preview even has a "1080" version which I haven't tried 
but I assume is 1920 pixels horizontal.



Cheers, Glen Low


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Re: Tiger - any essential apps broken?

[matt]

P.S.  Before installing it is worth selecting all your address book  
entries and "Export vcard".  Comparing the 10.3 vs 10.4 "~/Library/ 
Application Support/AddressBook" directories reveals some different  
file naming protocols. Updating the new address book was not a simple  
case of copying over 10.3 files to this location (although to be  
honest, I avoided renaming my 10.3 files to those of 10.4.  I was  
unsure whether new archiving methods are in place for 10.4 databases,  
given the advent of Spotlight).  Importing vcards was the method I  
had to choose to update my address book, so ensuring your old address  
book is archived in this format prior to 10.4 installation might be a  
handy tip.


I should also add I performed a clean install.  Such problems may not  
exist doing an upgrade installation.


Cheers, Matt

Re: My first Widget - Perth Seabreeze 7-day forecast

[Martin Hill]

I should have mentioned a few more details for those interested.

To open up a Widget to change it and make it your own - control-click on the
Widget, choose "Show Package Contents" and a new folder opens up showing the
contents.  In the case of my widget it contains 4 files:

seabreeze.htm
default.png
info.plist
icon.png

- Seabreeze.htm
Just any old web page with what you want to appear in your widget. Can embed
plug-ins (Quicktime, Flash etc), refer to other web pages or urls etc

- default.png
A graphic the same size you want the Widget to be that appears the first
time a user adds the widget to their Dashboard

- info.plist
Double-click this file which opens it in the plist editor (you can also open
this in a text editor) which allows you to change the height, width and name
of the web page (seabreeze.htm in my case) used by your widget.

- icon.png
The graphic used as an icon in the Dashboard "tray area"

Piece of cake.  :-)

-Mart

> From: Martin Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 01:25:19 +0800
> To: WAMUG Mailing List 
> Subject: My first Widget - Perth Seabreeze 7-day forecast
> 
> Well, it's extremely basic, but I've knocked together my first Widget for
> Dashboard in Tiger:
> http://mart.ozmac.com/widgets/
> (okay, so it's pretty rough and unfinished, but you get the idea)
> 
> It is incredibly easy to make a Dashboard widget - No programming required -
> Have a go and copy mine and substitute your own web page, change the images
> for the icon and background image and the dimensions in the plist file and
> viola!
> 
> I can see there is going to be a HUGE number of widgets available in the
> coming weeks.
> 
> My example displays the current 7-day Wind and Waves forecast from
> http://seabreeze.com.au
> (essential for mad-keen windsurfers like my wife and I)
> 
> -Mart
> 
> 
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Tiger in a PowerBook*

[Michael Hawkins]

Apple kept its promise to deliver by the 29th if Tiger was ordered before
the 26th - it arrived in my office by express post late afternoon on Friday.
I installed it by archive and install, after doing my  usual Macjanitor and
repair permissions and discwarrior 3.01 and back-up routine before
installing.

The installation was very straight forward. Yes, things were a bit slow when
I first ran Tiger, but that was because Spotlight was indexing my hard
drive. It's now running well.

Interestingly, after Tiger was installed , discwarrior reported 12,567
aliases as wrongly recorded but everything has worked well, including using
Entourage and printing to my Brother MFC-3820CN.

As far as I'm concerned, Apple has kept the faith in that it runs on my G3
PowerBook 400, 640 ram. But Dashboard is wasted on me and I don't like the
idea of having it running continuously. Can it be removed (as in deleted)?

Michael Hawkins.

* Some of you might be old enough to remember the oil company slogan "Put a
Tiger in your tank." I could never see or feel the difference, but I can
with this Tiger.

Re: Tiger in a PowerBook*

[Ronda Brown]

On 02/05/2005, at 10:06 AM, Michael Hawkins wrote:




Interestingly, after Tiger was installed , discwarrior reported 12,567
aliases as wrongly recorded but everything has worked well,  
including using

Entourage and printing to my Brother MFC-3820CN.


Hi Michael,


The new DiskWarrior 3.0.3 supports Tiger's new Access Control Lists  
(ACL) and extended file attributes. It has improved journaling  
support and enhanced RAID support, including the new concatenated  
RAID volumes.


DiskWarrior 3.0.3 will be available in just a few days during the  
first week of May as a FREE update to owners of DiskWarrior 3.0.x.  
Customers should return to this web page, download the update and use  
it to create and burn a new DiskWarrior CD containing the updated  
application. In order to create a new DiskWarrior CD, you must have  
an administrator name and password, the original DiskWarrior 3.0.x  
CD, 650 MB of free disk space, and a blank CD-R disc.


Cheers,
Ronni
When Microsoft asks you, "Where do you want to go today?" Tell them,  
"Apple!"

Re: Tiger in a PowerBook*

[Rod]

DiskWarrior 3.0.3 will be available in just a few days during the  
first week of May as a FREE update to owners of DiskWarrior 3.0.x.  
Customers should return to this web page, download the update and  
use it to create and burn a new DiskWarrior CD containing the  
updated application. In order to create a new DiskWarrior CD, you  
must have an administrator name and password, the original  
DiskWarrior 3.0.x CD, 650 MB of free disk space, and a blank CD-R  
disc.


Cheers,
Ronni
When Microsoft asks you, "Where do you want to go today?" Tell  
them, "Apple!"




Good work Ronni!

Too bad about those Pies, eh?  ;-)


Seeya

Rod!

Re: Tiger in a PowerBook*

[Ronda Brown]

On 02/05/2005, at 11:07 AM, Rod wrote:








DiskWarrior 3.0.3 will be available in just a few days during the  
first week of May as a FREE update to owners of DiskWarrior 3.0.x.  
Customers should return to this web page, download the update and  
use it to create and burn a new DiskWarrior CD containing the  
updated application. In order to create a new DiskWarrior CD, you  
must have an administrator name and password, the original  
DiskWarrior 3.0.x CD, 650 MB of free disk space, and a blank CD-R  
disc.


Cheers,
Ronni
When Microsoft asks you, "Where do you want to go today?" Tell  
them, "Apple!"





Good work Ronni!

Too bad about those Pies, eh?  ;-)


Who are they ?   I've never heard of them!!! ;-)

Hmmm, your 'Little Dockers' looked the goods on the week-end (My  
Darling Bobby would have been proud).


Cheers,
Ronni  (who has decided to support Netball or Lawn Bowls ...  
(anything other than AFL)!

Re: Tiger in a PowerBook*

[Dark1]

What ever you do don't try to repair permissions, or anything else for 
that matter, with any utility programs that have not been updated to 
run in 10.4

That includes Disk Warrior (until it has been updated).

Ruben A. Franke

Apple kept its promise to deliver by the 29th if Tiger was ordered 
before
the 26th - it arrived in my office by express post late afternoon on 
Friday.
I installed it by archive and install, after doing my  usual 
Macjanitor and

repair permissions and discwarrior 3.01 and back-up routine before
installing.

The installation was very straight forward. Yes, things were a bit 
slow when

I first ran Tiger, but that was because Spotlight was indexing my hard
drive. It's now running well.

Interestingly, after Tiger was installed , discwarrior reported 12,567
aliases as wrongly recorded but everything has worked well, including 
using

Entourage and printing to my Brother MFC-3820CN.

As far as I'm concerned, Apple has kept the faith in that it runs on 
my G3
PowerBook 400, 640 ram. But Dashboard is wasted on me and I don't like 
the
idea of having it running continuously. Can it be removed (as in 
deleted)?


Michael Hawkins.

* Some of you might be old enough to remember the oil company slogan 
"Put a
Tiger in your tank." I could never see or feel the difference, but I 
can

with this Tiger.



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Re: Tiger in a PowerBook*

[Robert Howells]

On 02/05/2005, at 11:19 AM, Ronda Brown wrote:



On 02/05/2005, at 11:07 AM, Rod wrote:


Good work Ronni!

Too bad about those Pies, eh?  ;-)


Who are they ?   I've never heard of them!!! ;-)

Hmmm, your 'Little Dockers' looked the goods on the week-end (My 
Darling Bobby would have been proud).


Cheers,
Ronni  (who has decided to support Netball or Lawn Bowls ...





 (anything other than AFL)!


That's the Foot BRAWLs and  Post Mortems !

Seriously, if they did on the street what they do in the contests
they would all go to gaol !

No wonder our society is becoming violent !

Bob

( who has violence filters on the TV and Radio )

Indexing remote servers with Spotlight?

[Toby Oldham]

I can't find any option or preference that allows me to index an  
external Win2K File server I often access ... would someone explain  
it to me? (on /off list, I don't mind).


Cheers,
Tobes.

Re: Indexing remote servers with Spotlight?

[James Devenish]

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
on Mon, May 02, 2005 at 11:44:10AM +0800, Toby Oldham wrote:
> I can't find any option or preference that allows me to index an
> external Win2K File server I often access ... would someone explain
> it to me? (on /off list, I don't mind).

Perhaps this is to prevent your systems administrator from having you
arrested.

For performance and administration reasons, clients should not index
file servers. If an index is required, it would be preferable to have it
generated on the file server (which is the only way to have a real-time
index anyway). However, I'm sure that doing this for a cross-platform,
multi-user system is a complex issue because each client needs to get
their own "view" according to their access permissions. It would be
interesting if Mac OS X Server makes any attempt at this. I realise that
there may be circumstances where it would be reasonable for clients to
do their own non real-time indexing of a file server, but this would be
a matter of negotiation on a case-by-case basis. Other than that,
perhaps non-HFS+ volumes are not supported for Spotlight indexing?

Re: Indexing remote servers with Spotlight?

[Toby Oldham]

*sigh* I miss being arrested.

Thanks James, when I used to index the share point / server under  
10.3 I guess it wasnt actually indexing, just trying to. 'Would  
explain why it didn't seem to reveal files very quickly or accurately  
afterwards.


I wonder what it was actually doing behind the scenes when I hit the  
'index now' button ... Hmm.


T.


On 02/05/2005, at 12:00 PM, James Devenish wrote:


In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
on Mon, May 02, 2005 at 11:44:10AM +0800, Toby Oldham wrote:


I can't find any option or preference that allows me to index an
external Win2K File server I often access ... would someone explain
it to me? (on /off list, I don't mind).



Perhaps this is to prevent your systems administrator from having you
arrested.

For performance and administration reasons, clients should not index
file servers. If an index is required, it would be preferable to  
have it
generated on the file server (which is the only way to have a real- 
time

index anyway). However, I'm sure that doing this for a cross-platform,
multi-user system is a complex issue because each client needs to get
their own "view" according to their access permissions. It would be
interesting if Mac OS X Server makes any attempt at this. I realise  
that

there may be circumstances where it would be reasonable for clients to
do their own non real-time indexing of a file server, but this  
would be

a matter of negotiation on a case-by-case basis. Other than that,
perhaps non-HFS+ volumes are not supported for Spotlight indexing?



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Re: Tiger in a PowerBook*

[Matthew Healey]

On 02/05/2005, at 10:06 AM, Michael Hawkins wrote:

As far as I'm concerned, Apple has kept the faith in that it runs  
on my G3
PowerBook 400, 640 ram. But Dashboard is wasted on me and I don't  
like the
idea of having it running continuously. Can it be removed (as in  
deleted)?


No need to.

When Dashboard is not in use (no on the screen) is consumes not CPU  
power at all. All the widgets are suspended.


The only hit you talk by having Dashboard there is the space it uses  
on your drive.


- Matt

Quicktime 7 Issues?

[Reg Whitely]

Hi WAMUGgers
I've just read these two reports on maced mailing list. Has anyone else 
had troubles with QT7 installation please?


Reg
__

Just be aware that apple have broken Quicktime7. All mic inputs 
(builtin and
USB) have a problem in all applications. The audio is broken and 
garbled, if
it works at all. Its broken so much there is even a Quicktime7 
un-installer

on the apple updates page.


Reports from a local school indicate that installing QT7 stuffs Kid Pix 
4.


And when you use the Apple uninstaller to go back to QT 6.5, Kid Pix is
still stuffed!

I'd suggest giving QT7 a miss for now.

Re: Quicktime 7 Issues?

[Mike Fuller]

I've installed QT 7 on OS 10.3.9 (Tiger still not here Grrr..)

Tried the built-in mic on my G5 iMac using Sound Studio to record.

No problem - sound was clear on playback.

Wonder if it's a Tiger issue, rather than QT alone.

Cheers,

Mike

On 02/05/2005, at 6:13 PM, Reg Whitely wrote:


Hi WAMUGgers
I've just read these two reports on maced mailing list. Has anyone 
else had troubles with QT7 installation please?


Reg
__

Just be aware that apple have broken Quicktime7. All mic inputs 
(builtin and
USB) have a problem in all applications. The audio is broken and 
garbled, if
it works at all. Its broken so much there is even a Quicktime7 
un-installer

on the apple updates page.


Reports from a local school indicate that installing QT7 stuffs Kid 
Pix 4.


And when you use the Apple uninstaller to go back to QT 6.5, Kid Pix is
still stuffed!

I'd suggest giving QT7 a miss for now.

Re: Tiger in a PowerBook*

[Dark1]

Apple disk utility is fine because it has been programed to operate 
with the permissions for 10.4
Just make sure that if you have also kept 10.3 (perhaps on a separate 
partition in case you want to go back) that you do not use the disk 
utility from that.  You also want to avoid using disk utilities from 
Apple system disks earlier than 10.4




On 02/05/2005, at 11:26 AM, Dark1 wrote:

What ever you do don't try to repair permissions, or anything else 
for that matter, with any utility programs that have not been updated 
to run in 10.4

That includes Disk Warrior (until it has been updated).

Ruben A. Franke



What about Apple's Disk Utility ?

Re: Warcraft 2 & Classic

[Dark1]

Maybe Daniel Kerr can order it in for you.  Failing that you might be 
able to find it in a store somewhere.  It ships as a single hybrid 
PC/MAC CD so you can search around in all stores rather than just Apple 
stores.


Ruben A. Franke

To everyone who have provided me with a range of tips to try to sort 
out this problem, thanking you all very much. Your support has been 
appreciated.


I went surfing on the net over the past few hours, and believe that I 
have finallyfound the solution to this problem. I visited a page on 
the net:


http://vintageware.orcon.net.nz/warcraft 2/

and found the following message:

 It doesn't work on Mac OS X!
  The original version of Warcraft II has an incompatibility with 
Mac OS X, where it can't find
  the game CD-ROM. You can join in a network game since up to 
three players can join
  using one CD-ROM, but you can't start a game. The only way to 
fix this is to upgrade to the

  newer Battle,net version of Warcraft II.

Now the next chapter in this saga,will see me searching high and low 
for a retailer who may still have a copy of this game in stock still.


Again, thanx for your support.

Regards
Rosie :-)


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Re: Warcraft 2 & Classic

[Craig Ringer]

On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 03:39 +1000, Greg Sharp wrote:

> Another
> thing that makes my son's disk unique is he bought it off some guy overseas
> who had it for sale in an overseas games forum. When it arrived it wasn't
> even an original but instead a burnt copy. So without meaning to my son had
> bought a piece of Warez (illegal copy) but at least it did work. But somehow
> I don't think this is related to your problem.

It will, in fact, be utterly central to the problem. The program will be
trying to do special tricks to check if the CD is authentic, ie not a
burnt copy. The copy you have will be "cracked" - the game binary will
have been modified to skip this check.

That authenticity check will almost certainly use nasty low-level hacks,
direct hardware access, or other ickyness. Most of them do.
Unsurprisingly, it doesn't work in Classic - thus your copy running when
legit copies do not.

I pointed out that this was probably the problem quite some time ago. 

This is one of the many reasons copy protection only hurts legitimate
users - abusers get around it trivially.

Crack the game if you can find a crack, and your legally purchased copy
will cease preventing you from running it because it thinks you've
stolen it.

-- 
Craig Ringer

yet another iTMS rumour

[Warren Jones]

No specific Aus mention but seems things must be getting closer...


From .


Apple readying iTunes 4.8

A new version of Apple's iTunes software will reportedly boast security 
enhancements and handle the syncing of user contacts and calendars to 
and from iPods.


Apple Computer in the coming weeks is expected to introduce a new 
version of its iTunes jukebox software for both the Mac and PC.


The new version will pack a maintenance and security update and may 
also contain added support for a new wave of international music 
stores, now seemingly overdue.


Additionally, company documents indicate that iTunes 4.8 will take over 
the responsibilities of transferring contacts and calendars to a user's 
iPod. Previously these functions were handled by Apple's iSync 
application.


According to sources, the software could debut as early as the first 
week of May.



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Warren Jones 
http://homepage.mac.com/warrenj/

Perth, Western Australia

Tiger's on the pBook

[Reg Whitely]

Hi All

I've got Tiger loaded on the Powewrbook. It installed well, runs Ok  
and looks nice. It's a bit too late to play too much tonight but 2  
things:


I can't change Perth in Dashboard Weather Widget, from some place  
with -4c predicted, to Perth WA or even Geraldton. Any clues?  
Daniel's polite method doesn't seem to work. I can go to http:// 
wwwa.accuweather.com/index-world-forecast.asp? 
partner=accuweather&myadc=0&traveler=0&zipcode=AU;WA;GERALDTON&metric=1  
but this doesn't seem to update the widget.


Also how can I put mailboxes on rhs of Mail window? It seems it's  
either left or left out altogether.


Regards
Reg

Re: Tiger's on the pBook

[Daniel Kerr]

On 2/05/2005 10:14 PM, "Reg Whitely" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi All
> 
> I've got Tiger loaded on the Powewrbook. It installed well, runs Ok
> and looks nice. It's a bit too late to play too much tonight but 2
> things:
> 
> I can't change Perth in Dashboard Weather Widget, from some place
> with -4c predicted, to Perth WA or even Geraldton. Any clues?
> Daniel's polite method doesn't seem to work. I can go to http://
> wwwa.accuweather.com/index-world-forecast.asp?
> partner=accuweather&myadc=0&traveler=0&zipcode=AU;WA;GERALDTON&metric=1
> but this doesn't seem to update the widget.
> 
> Also how can I put mailboxes on rhs of Mail window? It seems it's
> either left or left out altogether.
> 
> Regards
> Reg

Hi Reg

The weather is a strange one. All I did to change it was flip the widget
round (use the little 'I' in the bottom right corner). Then type Perth and
it will give you a list of "perth's" I did "Geraldton" just now and got it
work fine. You don't actually need to go to the website at all, it does it
all from the widget. :o)

My "polite" method? Hmm,...it was meant to be nice,..did I say something
wrong? 

Let me know if it doesn't work. :o)

Enjoy!

Kind Regards
Daniel
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Re: Tiger's on the pBook

[Peter Meyer]

On 02/05/2005, at 10:14 PM, Reg Whitely wrote:


Hi All

I've got Tiger loaded on the Powewrbook. It installed well, runs Ok  
and looks nice. It's a bit too late to play too much tonight but 2  
things:


I can't change Perth in Dashboard Weather Widget, from some place  
with -4c predicted, to Perth WA or even Geraldton. Any clues?  
Daniel's polite method doesn't seem to work. I can go to http:// 
wwwa.accuweather.com/index-world-forecast.asp? 
partner=accuweather&myadc=0&traveler=0&zipcode=AU;WA;GERALDTON&metric= 
1 but this doesn't seem to update the widget.



quite simple really - just turn the widget around by clicking the  
bottom-right corner and make sure you enter *Perth, Western  
Australia* in the appropriate space and hit  and it will chug  
off and find the *real* Perth for you; you can click on  to  
turn the widget around again and it shows it's wet/raining and 19º  
having been as cool as 12ºC but as warm as 24ºC.


Also how can I put mailboxes on rhs of Mail window? It seems it's  
either left or left out altogether.



…not sure about that bit; maybe it's not possible as it's no longer a  
drawer?




Regards
Reg

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Re: Tiger's on the pBook

[Adam Yap]

Reg,

After you type in "Perth, Australia" or "Perth, Western Australia"  
into the back of the widget, make sure you type "enter", instead of  
just clicking on the "OK" button straight away. It's say "validating"  
or verifying or something. That seems to make the difference.


Adam

On 02/05/2005, at 10:14 PM, Reg Whitely wrote:


Hi All

I've got Tiger loaded on the Powewrbook. It installed well, runs Ok  
and looks nice. It's a bit too late to play too much tonight but 2  
things:


I can't change Perth in Dashboard Weather Widget, from some place  
with -4c predicted, to Perth WA or even Geraldton. Any clues?  
Daniel's polite method doesn't seem to work. I can go to http:// 
wwwa.accuweather.com/index-world-forecast.asp? 
partner=accuweather&myadc=0&traveler=0&zipcode=AU;WA;GERALDTON&metric= 
1 but this doesn't seem to update the widget.


Also how can I put mailboxes on rhs of Mail window? It seems it's  
either left or left out altogether.


Regards
Reg

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Re: Tiger's on the pBook

[Tobes]

Hi Reg, it doesn't seem to offer the drop down list of 'Perths'  
initially, you have to give it a few minutes - then Delete Perth from  
the Field, then re-type. You're cooking with gas once you're  
activated the drop down list basically (or at least, that's how it  
worked for me).


Cheers,
Tobes.

On 02/05/2005, at 10:14 PM, Reg Whitely wrote:


Hi All

I've got Tiger loaded on the Powewrbook. It installed well, runs Ok  
and looks nice. It's a bit too late to play too much tonight but 2  
things:


I can't change Perth in Dashboard Weather Widget, from some place  
with -4c predicted, to Perth WA or even Geraldton. Any clues?  
Daniel's polite method doesn't seem to work. I can go to http:// 
wwwa.accuweather.com/index-world-forecast.asp? 
partner=accuweather&myadc=0&traveler=0&zipcode=AU;WA;GERALDTON&metric= 
1 but this doesn't seem to update the widget.


Also how can I put mailboxes on rhs of Mail window? It seems it's  
either left or left out altogether.


Regards
Reg

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Re: Quicktime 7 Issues?

[Rob Davies]

On 02/05/2005, at 6:13 PM, Reg Whitely wrote:


Hi WAMUGgers
I've just read these two reports on maced mailing list. Has anyone  
else had troubles with QT7 installation please?


Reg
__

Just be aware that apple have broken Quicktime7. All mic inputs  
(builtin and
USB) have a problem in all applications. The audio is broken and  
garbled, if
it works at all. Its broken so much there is even a Quicktime7 un- 
installer

on the apple updates page.


Well after spending the most part of the day in backup land and clean  
install of Tigger on friends PB 17" 2004 vintage. I spent the last 2  
and a half hours editing and compositing, with audio external mike  
and internal mike plus recordings off DV tape which has been  
processed through Audacity and arranged edited for 5.1 via AC3 in  
Soundtrack. Just outputting into DVDSP all seems to be playing  
through simulator ( cannot wait to be able to do Dolby direct and  
output via sim to 6.1 sound system on the run) Formatting and Build  
are done it is burnt, off to lounge room to test yep all works. So,  
not a problem here yet FCP, DVDSP, Soundtrack, Audacity, and QT7Pro  
on Tigger via a PB cooking with Gas.






Reports from a local school indicate that installing QT7 stuffs Kid  
Pix 4.


Check company website, could be an issue they know about and have  
solved or are solving. I found this with Stuffit and Cocktail,  
relevant fixes already their and Diskwarrior too.




And when you use the Apple uninstaller to go back to QT 6.5, Kid  
Pix is

still stuffed!



Do not use, although one thing I did notice with Tigger is the longer  
it is running the little bugs and niggles disappear and as  for QT7  
have not played with it much except in mentioned recordings. Which  
are external sounds for background noise with voice overs via PB  
mike. One would assume these are QT7 intense, the MPEG2 compiled a  
little quicker than the Panther powered PB, not sure but I think  
quality too, have to play more to check this. So, many options with  
QT not sure where to go, oh MPEG 2 QT Player for 6 works in 7 so do  
not purchase a new one it is same unit.



I'd suggest giving QT7 a miss for now.


Each too their own, but thus far no probs for me!

My daughter is still looking for Pooh Bear, and very upset PB 17" has  
gone home! Oh well looks like I could be doing the install thing  
again tomorrow damn Apple.


Cheers!
Rob