Disney's Winnie the Pooh Preschool

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Disney's Winnie the Pooh Preschool

Hi all. Not sure if this is the place to discuss problems with the Classic environment or not but here goes.

I just picked up an old product - a brand new Winnie the Pooh KidzMouse. It came with the Winnie the Pooh Preschool software from 1999. I thought it would run on my iMac 400 running OS X 10.4.6 under the Classic environment.
The software installs fine and puts me into a folder where there is an icon titled "Play Pooh Preeschool". When I try to open this icon it opens up Quicktime in OS X with a black window. This icon is actually an alias to a file named "PoohP.Mac". A Get Info on this file tells me it is a MacPaint Image File instead of a Classic Application. Under Version: it says, "8.0r178, Copyright 1985-2000 Macromedia, Inc. Director 8 Shockwave Studio.

Any ideas on how I get this game to actually launch?

iMac 400, Mac OS X (10.4.6), 256 MB RAM

Posted on May 12, 2006 9:34 PM

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Answer 1

Niel

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May 12, 2006 10:42 PM in response to Larry Jorgenson

Delete the .Mac at the end of the file's name, confirm your action, and then try double-clicking on the file again. If it still won't open, launch the Script Editor in the /Applications/AppleScript/ folder, and enter the following:

tell application "Finder"
set file type of (selection as alias) to "APPL"
end tell

Go back into the Finder, select the application, click on the Script Editor window, and push the Run button. The application should then open.

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Answer 2

Ron JACKLE

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May 13, 2006 12:21 AM in response to Larry Jorgenson

Larry Jorgenson1...

I think your "Pooh" CD is best played in the 100% pure Mac OS 9 environment that Micromedia has better control over. There is a high possibility a loaded in Extension is needed to run that app.

Ouch! Mac OS 10.4.6 and 256MB RAM. has got to hurt. Surprised that it doesn't bomb out or crash Classic.

...Ron

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Answer 3

May 15, 2006 7:42 PM in response to Niel

D'oh. Of course that's the problem. Tried as you suggested and it works, sort of. I got into the game now but it's crashing so perhaps this is a game best played fully in OS 9 which of course means I won't be using it. I won't put my wife through having to deal with restarting the computer everytime they want to play Pooh.

Curiously in the text file CDFinder.txt there is a comment to the effect of

"- This FileXtra function doesn't work properly on Macs running OS X in "classic" mode so replace it with a DirectOS function"

Therefore, it must be possible. Anybody want to take a closer look at this file and help me to make this game run without the CD in the drive? Send me an email to larry767 at GMail dot calm.

Thanks,

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Answer 4

May 22, 2006 2:52 PM in response to Larry Jorgenson

I'm just an old straight Classic user and my kids have played the game in question. Never a crash.

I concur with Ron though. How can you run anything with so little RAM? 256 is the recommended minimum just to keep your system up and running. Any apps need extra. Boosting your RAM may clear up the crashes.

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Answer 5

Jun 2, 2006 6:20 AM in response to Larry Jorgenson

Here's an update to my unhelpful comment.

I recently upgraded everything and now I'm running a dual 1Ghz G4 with 1.5 GB RAM. By coincidence my youngest lad asked to play the game in question today and I experienced your problem of being unable to open the program. I also kept getting Quicktime automatically trying to open the file when I clicked on the .mac labelled icon. The solution mentioned above is oddly complicated. It may work but why not, when you delete the old file ending, just tack on .app? Saves mucking around with script editors. With .app it opens. The game was played for an hour an we didn't experiance any crashes.

OS 9 is notorious for not handling RAM the way it should. With your 256 you can expect anything more complicated than Simpletext or the Calculator to crash. I was also told that if I expect to be running a lot of Classic programs it would be a good idea to partition your HD and have one section for OS 9. Not sure why... but that's what I've done and with my Giga and a half of RAM I've yet to crash and I usually run several graphics programs plus mail and browser at once on this thing.

Buy some RAM and forget copying the disk to your drive.

G4 Mac OS X (10.4) MDD dual 1Ghz, split HD (one section for OS 9.2.2), 1.5 GB RAM

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