Squeak 2.4a 68k VM startup problem.

Mark Guzdial guzdial at cc.gatech.edu
Thu Apr 22 16:50:03 UTC 1999


This is the same problem with the 68K 2.3b VM that John provided us, adding
QT support.  I ran and re-ran the QT 3.0 install and never resolved it.

Mark


>Hi,
>  Nope, no QuickTimeLib in my extensions folder.  Where did yours come
>from?  The default QuickTime 3.0 install didn't put one there for me.
>I'll have to poke at it more when I get home tonight.  Thanks though!
>
>Just to keep things from getting too confusing :-) If you have a 68k
>mac running 8.0 or 8.1 you do not need the CFM-68k Runtime Enabler
>because it's built into the system file in 8.0 and 8.1.  I have a
>feeling that this is a vanishingly small group of people though :-)
>
>
>BTW, the 2.3 VM runs just fine.
>
>cheers
>
>bruce
>
>John.Maloney at disney.com writes:
> > Bruce,
> >
> > Thanks for reporting this! Unfortunately, I don't have a 68K Mac
> > running system 8.x on which to try this myself. I'm not sure, but
> > it could be that you need to have a copy of QuickTimeLib in your
> > Extensions folder for this to work. (The Mac CodeFragmentManager
> > is still a mystery to me.) You definitely must have an up-to-date
> > copy of CFM-68K Runtime Enabler in your Extensions folder (4.0
> > or later; earlier versions were buggy).
> >
> > Has anyone else had experience, positive or negative, with
> > getting the Squeak 2.4 68K VM to run?
> >
> > 	-- John
> >
> >
> > >Hi,
> > >  When I try to startup 2.4a on a 68k mac I get:
> > >
> > >"The application "Squeak VM 2.4 68K" could not be opened because
> > >"QuickTimeLib--NASetInstrumentNumber" could not be found.  This is on
> > >a 8.1 system with Quicktime 3.0 installed.  Both the 2.4 as well as
> > >the 2.4a sea file had a 68k vm with the date of 19 April 13:19, while
> > >the 2.4a file had PPC vm dated 20 April at 18:22.
> >
> >
>
>--
>Reality is 80m polygons - Alvy Ray Smith
>Bruce O'Neel - beoneel at mindspring.com
>http://homepage.iprolink.ch/~bioneel/beo/beo.html


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