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Re: Mac OS 9 Development Requests (OS Level Items)
« Reply #80 on: August 18, 2021, 01:26:02 PM »

Multi-button mouse support would be nice.
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Re: Mac OS 9 Development Requests (OS Level Items)
« Reply #82 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.
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Re: Mac OS 9 Development Requests (OS Level Items)
« Reply #83 on: March 10, 2024, 07:52:16 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.

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
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Re: Mac OS 9 Development Requests (OS Level Items)
« Reply #84 on: March 11, 2024, 12:43:28 AM »

I wonder where this feature lays in the OS... Interesting.
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Re: Mac OS 9 Development Requests (OS Level Items)
« Reply #85 on: April 10, 2024, 06:39:16 PM »

Multi-button mouse support would be nice.

Don't you mean, "...would be... mice" ??  :D :D

Okay, okay, sorry.
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Re: Mac OS 9 Development Requests (OS Level Items)
« Reply #86 on: April 11, 2024, 03:28:53 AM »

LOL :-D


Never heard about the "resource decompression" issue but I'd be interested to hear more about it / see a fix for that too if it'd increase backwards compatibility.
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Re: Mac OS 9 Development Requests (OS Level Items)
« Reply #87 on: April 14, 2024, 11:18:31 AM »

multi button mouse, not multi mice button.
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