We've inherited some legacy software that we need to run quite urgently. It was written in Lisp and we don't have the source code (developer is dead), only runs on Mac OS 9 (some bug seems to prevent it running on anything newer) and requires a license dongle to run.
We have an old machine that will run the software, but it is a dinosaur. Ideally, the solution would also provide for remote access as well.
My first thought was to use some kind of emulator on a newer machine, or even a VPS. But I have concerns about how these will work with the USB dongle. Can anyone suggest a solution better than accepting that working with old code sucks and getting on with it?
The most recent hardware I can think is a PowerPC Macintosh, with Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger). It is the last version of Mac OS X to have the Classic Environment, that will let you run this legacy software.
Alternatively, if you don't have a PowerPC Mac in house, you can look into SheepShaver, a PowerPC emulator, however you'll need a Mac OS install CD.
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I have developed an app on a Window PC using Python and wxPython. For the several weeks I have been trying to migrate it to a MAC mini running 10.9, Python 2.7.6 (32/64 bit) using the Eclipse IDE with PyDev. I was NOT a MAC user prior to about three weeks ago when I purchased a used Mac mini and started working on it. Due to the fact that wxPython is a 32-bit library only I am running Python in 32-bit mode out of Eclipse - this has worked well until now I am ready to attempt and produce a stand alone app via cx_freeze and I am hitting a problem that cx_freeze is building the bundle using the 64-bit Python and it will not work with my 32-bit wx_Python library.
My question is what can I do at this point in time? Obviously, if I had been smart I would have installed the 32-bit ONLY version of Python 2.7.6 (hind sight you know), but I did not. I have gone through all the write to /Library/Preferences/com.apple.python.preference file and setting environment variables only to learn that that does not apply except to Apple installs. One solution would be to install the 32-bit ONLY Python - scared I will mess my current development environment up so that is why I am asking here for help. Also, there may be a setting in cx_freeze to accomplish this too. Any help to a "green horn" MAC person would be greatly appreciated.
I would like to learn something about i phone development. So, first i want to know that, Can i run basic application on windows?
Is there any apps or tool available for the same. I knew, We can run this on Mac/Ubuntu. But, I have installed windows 7 in my laptop.
would be grateful for help.
For learning purpose you can install a virtual machine install OSX and try some of the examples (which i'm guessing is not legal). But if you want to create an app to upload it to the store you will need a mac machine.
Looking for installation help with NXT2.0f3 patch for mindstorms NXT 2.0 software on iMac w/ Lion 10.7.3. Base software installation from CD works fine (with some minor glitches once the NXT software is running that I can live with for now); however, applying the NXT2.0f3 patch (so-called Mac software fix downloaded from Lego) prevents NXT application startup. On application startup, I get an alert box with
"Error Code: 1003" stating that a required file is broken. The program then quits. No useful information (like a filename) there.
Mindstorms phone support wasn't helpful. Did reinstalls five times with different combinations of 32-bit and 64-bit mode OSX. Also tried installing driver package from CD to repair installation (after patch was applied), but no luck.
Has anyone got this working, or run into the same problem and have a solution?
Actually I have read about that I can write Objective-C app on Linux (using GNUStep).
But my question is, Am I will be able to develop completely iPhone app on Linux machine?
Or I'll need eventually need to use Mac machine?
Especially when I read that there are some some syntax diffs between NeXT/Apple and GCC (according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective-C)
Short answer - yes it can be done but is not as easy as the Mac way.
Duplicate of how-much-of-an-iphone-app-can-be-developed-and-tested-on-linux, which will lead you to still more links, and 75-100 others.
I'd try giving VirtualBox and a Mac OS X guest a shot. Some people say they've been able to run it.
http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=2076
If you manage to run it, then you could install X-Code and things should be a lot easier.
I am using EclipseMe on Ubuntu. I want an emulator that can emulate mouse movements on screen.
Is there an s60 emulator for linux?
Edit:
Does net beans has an in built emulator that can emulate mouse movement on device screen?
Netbeans uses the Sun Wireless Toolkit.
The JavaME emulator it contains can me made into a touchscreen emulator. Read the accompanying documentation, it should be as simple as setting a variable inside a configuration file before stating the emulator.
You can find the specification for MIDP (the top layer of the JavaME platform you're probably targetting) at http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=118
Look at the javax.microedition.lcdui.Canvas class, you will find several methods used to deal with "pointer". While they are more often used to handle touchscreen event, they also map to mouse/joystick clicks on emulators.
You can definitely get the MIDP pointerDragged events when running the emulator on Linux.
This is basic MIDP, no need for fancy JSR-226 (e-swt) support.
The Windows only Symbian Emulator (EPOC) is being scrapped for a QEMU based emulator that will run on all platforms. This will likely be available within 6 months or so.
At the moment, I run Windows XP inside VirtualBox on my Mac for Symbian development. It works fine, but is of course not the ideal solution.
The full symbian OS emulator with application interfaces for Java and Symbian C is windows based unfortunately.
I usually get a MS Windows Vista install disk and install that into a VM like VirtualBox and than install the symbian SDks on top of that..
Works best on those 4 core desktop 64-bit computers now on sale for $687 as you get access to full 8 gig ram and close to 1 terabyte hard drive..