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Mac OS 9 Development Requests (OS Level Items)
lepidotos:
Multi-button mouse support would be nice.
IIO:
http://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php/topic,3185.0.html
cybernetix:
It appears from MacOS 9.1 onwards Apple broke/removed resource decompression. This feature was build into Resource Manager to allow programs to access resource fork data that may be compressed on disk but "heats" it into memory as uncompressed data. The lack of resource decompression contributes to why After Dark 4.0/Deluxe crashes on MacOS 9.1 and later systems.
It would be awesome to get this functionality back as this may go towards overall app compatibility and stability on MacOS 9.2.2.
goodoldmacs:
--- Quote from: cybernetix on June 30, 2022, 08:07:37 PM ---It appears from MacOS 9.1 onwards Apple broke/removed resource decompression. This feature was build into Resource Manager to allow programs to access resource fork data that may be compressed on disk but "heats" it into memory as uncompressed data. The lack of resource decompression contributes to why After Dark 4.0/Deluxe crashes on MacOS 9.1 and later systems.
It would be awesome to get this functionality back as this may go towards overall app compatibility and stability on MacOS 9.2.2.
--- End quote ---
sry to bump another old thread but
just seconding and supporting this request (and wondering if there was any progress on a fix since it was posted)
this could explain a number of programs that run fine in 8.6 that glitch out on 9.1/9.2
but it's worth attention even if just for afterdark alone
Knezzen:
I wonder where this feature lays in the OS... Interesting.
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