ralph@lucifer.UUCP ( 244) (04/04/91)
Are there any Aladin users out there ??
I have just inherited an Aladin Mac emulator, complete with original
disks and documentation. Unfortunately, several of the PD utility
disks appear to be damaged in some way.
One of the disks has some games on, but when trying to mount it, Aladin
claims that it is not an Aladin disk. I've looked through a Mac hints
book which claims that this is can probably be fixed by holding down
OPTION+'cloverleaf' keys during bootup. Does you happen to know if
these keys are emulated, and if so, what they are mapped to ??
The other disk seems to start mounting properly, but it never finishes.
I see the disk access light go on, the mouse pointer changes to wristwatch
during several seconds of disk access. It then flips back to the pointer
and back to the watch again and does a little more disk access. After
some more seconds, the disk light goes out and nothing happens. I've
tried leaving it for a long time to see if it's thinking about it, but
nothing ever happens. The arrow pointer never comes back. The only way
to get out of it seems to be a reboot...
What really bothers me is that these damaged disks appear to be the only
ones that contain binhex and MacKermit, so I can't download any other PD
stuff...
I have managed to get hold of a copy of binhex on a TOS disk, which I've
copied over to Aladin using the Gem file import program, but it comes
through in a non-executable form. Do you happen to know of a way to
make it into an executable application ?? I am willing to start editing
disks to get this to work....
Of course, an Aladin disk containing some kind of terminal emulator/download
would be most welcome...
Thanks in Advance
Ralph Mitchell
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