An application copied from a MacOS 9 computer has a "unix executable file" icon when copied onto my Intel iMac running MacOS X 10.4.11 and is not being recognized as an application. How can I fix this so that it launches?
iMac Intel, Mac OS X (10.4.1)
It would really, really help if you identified the application and its version.
If it is a true OS9 application then it will be very difficult to get it to run on an Intel Mac. PPC Macs could run OS9 applications in Classic, but Classic is not possible with Intel Macs. You can look into Sheepshaver, but it takes a fair amount of doing to get it up and running, and it has limitations.
Some OS9 applications had code that bridged the OS9-OSX gap. Use System Profiler to look at the list of applications on your computer and it will identify the type.
If it's a Mac OS 9 application, you can't run that on Mac OS X; you need to have the Classic environment (Mac OS 9) installed.
And that can't be installed on an Intel Mac.
You can look into Sheepshaver, but it takes a fair amount of doing to get it up and running, and it has limitations.
To be honest, your easiest path is to scour the internet and find someone selling an old machine. I'm sure there are some 10+ year old machines lying around. Shouldn't cost too much.
An application copied from a MacOS 9 computer has a "unix executable file" icon and is not recognized as an application. How can I fix this?
