Okay, here's a simple solution to the launch and quit. You can use a simple AppleScript tell Finder to open the application as a file. The shut down event will only be triggered when the application is closed. tell application "Finder" open file "[PATH TO APP]" shut down end tell...

Hi all, long time no talk. I've been continuing work on the SS wrapper with Finder replacement. One of the tricks I'm looking at down the road is to display a splash screen until the Finder (or in this case, the custom application) has been launched in order to hide the OS9 startup screen. The idea ...

I've been back on this project again as of recently. I've tried installing QuicKeyes and pairing command-q with the Finder shut down event. It works well when IN the Finder. However, this of course doesn't work with a custom finder, as it relies on the vanilla finder to handle the shutdown event. I'...

Well, it would certainly take some modifications to OS9, as well as SS. One big challenge I can see is integrating platinum's window system to run in OSX. It's definitely not impossible- just really really hard. Another approach is to try integrating a PPC interpreter into the classic environment. I...

I guess you could say it's kind of like the classic environment. The only difference being that it would be designed mainly for fullscreen apps instead of having platinum's windows load in OS X.

But the basic idea is to have (fullscreen) OS9 apps that run as similarly as possible to native OSX apps.

Yeah, the applescript doesn't work very well. The scripts are relatively unreliable, there's a delay, and boot time is slower. It doesn't give you that seamless experience of a native-esque app like DOSBox, etc.

Hah, oh wow that would be amazing!! The best solution is by far using the application itself as a Finder, and that's basically the only missing thing from the equation.

There is no such thing as "the" desktop folder in classic MacOS. Each volume has its own "Desktop Folder". Those folders are hidden in the MacOS Finder . What you see as the desktop is the combined content of desktops of all mounted volumes. When you drag something directly from...

Wow! Yeah, if you have some replacement Finders, it could possibly save me countless hours of reading Inside Macintosh (although I might do it anyway hehe). Even if they don't run in OS9 they could still provide some great insights. That would be amazing. Thanks so much!! Scraped Google for Unfinder...

Yeah. Also if by any chance you have an alias in your startup items that points to an application in the Unix folder it can sometimes have problems. Sometimes the shared desktop folder can get confusing. If I find something on my desktop folder that's actually stored in the unix folder, I'll immedia...

Hah! Replace the finder! That's genius!! Never thought of that. That works extremely well. I had a boot time issue where the finder lagged for a few seconds and it fixed that too. Now looking into a way to order it to shut down the system when the application is quit. The system always relaunches th...

Thanks for writing this!

I was working basically the same script until I found this.

As you say, you can put something in startup items, but you have to shut down the OS to exit the emulator. Requires a script to get the OS to shut down when the application is exited.

Hi everyone, I'm new here. Forgive me, I'm not sure I'm in the right place or on the right forum. I've been having fun with this little project of mine and was hoping I could get some advice and opinions. There aren't a whole lot of resources out there for OS9 development and system-level stuff. I r...