Good evening gentlemen

My kids and I do a lot of retrogaming on my old Macs. One of the constant annoyances of doing so on OS9 is the CD images and the way they accumulate and clutter up the desktop unless you eject them all. It’s such a simple, automate-able process: mount this image, open this application, when this application quits unmount this disk.

I have come across pre compiled Applescripts for OSX games that do this, but never the script source. The new and excellent software Gamebox also does this for you, so it’s clearly possible. I am wondering if anyone has an Applescript source or other helper application that can do this? I intend to share the results of this thread, if there are any, on the ‘Garden with clear instructions on how to set it up for a given game.

Thank you for your suggestions!

I have had success with GaryN’s method 1. My printer is a Kyocera Ecosys P2135dn. It replaced a printer that replaced a printer that replaced the Kyocera FS-1000. I downloaded the .ppd file for the FS-1000 and followed the method 1 steps GaryN laid out. I am now printing single sided, double sided, whatever, from my modern printer, over the network. Who says OS9 is obsolete?

It’s been a while since I compared Logic, but running anything audio I found preferable on Snow Leopard because latency can be reduced to near zero, which for remote hosting or standalone applications it is best. The downside is you need Leopard if you want a server to host remote drives for OS9 to access. It’s one or the other. If I needed both I would use Leopard to server and Snow Leopard or Mavericks to remote host on two OSX computers and Ethernet both with my MDD for example. Then the Leopard machine can be a conduit of sorts for everything needing file transfer. Best to keep things simple.

I love the idea and the application. To be honest, the feature I am most interested in is the ability to reliably unmount the cd image after the game quits. I am wondering if you’d be willing to release or include with the license,  a lighter-weight version that simply mounts a cd image, launches the game, and when the game quits, unmounts the CD image. Something that you could put a copy of in each game’s folder, configure for that game, and use to launch the game. Thanks for considering it!

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Hi.
I am a violin maker from Paris, France.
I am 37 yo and my first machine was an Apple II.
I am trying hard to go back working under OS 9 mostly for nostalgia purposes.
I am glad to be part of the community.
Cheers.

Our hosting ISP banned a lot of US subnets.

I'm not in US, but I wasn't able to connect to forum 90% of the time

Edit. Make that 98%

that is why i think that performing applescript and apple events based stuff is the most interesting application for that.

rather than generating HD videos based on chatgpt4, which together requires >5 TB of RAM and possiby a year or two to produce a 5 second long result on a G4 processor. even a mac pro 2012 is totally underperformed for that, it will cost you more money to do that locally compared to paying for hugging space & co GPU time.

GPT 3.1 is about 380 gb long and will run locally on a M3 ultra without swapping.

I apologize that I never replied to this - I didn't realize that my settings weren't set for me to automatically receive notifications.... Anyway, belated thanks for the info!  :-)

Used to be my audio machine... served me well!  https://www.ebay.com/itm/336511253459