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Can't...get...Michael Joyce article
Submitted by Pimm on 23 September 2006 - 1:24pm.
Sorry if I shouldn't post a question like this on our blog, but I'm having trouble getting Michael Joyce's "Afternoon." I know that Professor Fitzpatrick said we would need to open it on a Mac using Classic, but I can't figure out how to do that. Maybe I'm just bad with computers, but an ITS person couldn't open it either. Please offer advice!
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I also couldn't open it,
I also couldn't open it, even with the help of 3 or 4 ITS staffers. We weren't running it in classic mode (I had forgotten about that part), but if you were, then I don't think there's anything else you can do. I emailed Professor Fitzpatrick on Thursday evening, and she said that if I still couldn't get it to work, she has the story on CDs, and we would work something out.
So I guess something needs to be worked out, eh? Professor F: any ideas on how the 19 or so of us can share those CDs?
one more try?
Have you tried it again since yesterday afternoon? It turned out that there was some corruption introduced into the file when it was uploaded. I've reuploaded it as a .sitx file, so it should download and, when you double click on the package icon, automatically unstuff into a StorySpace player file, entitled "Afternoon, a story." (And I've just checked to make sure that downloading and opening the file on my home computer works, and it did.) Double-clicking on the "Afternoon" file, if Classic hasn't already been launched, should bring up a little window that says something on the order of "Classic mode starting using System Folder (OS 9) on Macintosh HD." If the computer stalls out there -- if Classic never fully launches -- there's probably a conflict in the computer's Quicktime files, weirdly enough. (Tell the ITS person on duty that they need to remove the DivX or DivX Networks folder from /Library/Application Support.) But once Classic starts, the file should launch and run in a small old-school Mac window.
Let me know if you keep having problems, and we'll figure out what to do. But please do so soon -- this is a hypertext, not an article, and it's going to take you longer to read than you think...