OS9exec

PeterHolbrook · Post by **PeterHolbrook** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 12:24 am

This might be explained elsewhere on this forum, but I've been unable to locate it.

Does anyone know how OS9exec (supposedly, an environment to run OS9 applications) work? I downloaded the latest OS X package from SourceForge, and it contains an os9app_univ executable, plus three other binary files, rather unintelligible release notes and that's about it. How can this thing be run so that I can run an OS9 application? Double clicking on os9app_univ produces this output (in Terminal):

# OS9exec V3.38: OS-9 User Runtime Emulator
# Copyright (C) 2007 Lukas Zeller / Beat Forster
# This program is distributed under the terms of
# the GNU General Public License
#
# Platform: 'IntelMac XCode' (x86)
# - Using 68k-Emulator from UAE - Un*x Amiga Emulator (c) 1995 B. Schmidt
# Building CPU table for configuration: 68020/881
# 1852 CPU functions
# Building CPU function table (3 0 0).

# Emulation could not start due to OS-9 error #000:216 (E_PNNF): 'shell'
# Path Name Not Found

# OS-9 emulation ends here.
logout

[Process completed]

emendelson · Post by **emendelson** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 1:19 am

Microware's OS-9, unfortunately, is a completely different OS from Apple's Mac OS 9. See this page for the explanation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS-9

PeterHolbrook · Post by **PeterHolbrook** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 10:09 am

I don't quite follow. Are you sure OS9exec is related to this OS-9? I've seen a screen capture of OS9exec running what appears to be an OS9 application on the OS X desktop. It almost looks as if OS9 itself isn't even necessary.

PeterHolbrook · Post by **PeterHolbrook** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 11:20 am

OK, don't bother, I've confirmed the information you provided is correct. Sorry for the inconvenience. Thank you for your time.