Looking for any inits, control panels, or whatnot that allows you to force quit a misbehaving app through a keypress other than command-option-esc on OS 9 and earlier. Anyone know of such a thing? Trying to find a nicer way to get out of misbehaving apps in SheepShaver without having to restart the entire emulator. Even a process watcher that would auto-force-quit a non-responding app would be nice. Thanks in advance.
Looking for force quit software for OS 9 and earlier
- Thread starter misterg33
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Hello my friend!
What you are asking for does not exist I do not think. You must remember that the classic MacOS uses Co-operation Multitasking!
I believe the Mac OS 9 does have limited real multitasking. But I think that all Applications run in the same process. The blues task!
Needing to restart computer is corner stone of Classic Mac Experience, you are lucky you don't need restarting your entire computer!!!
What you are asking for does not exist I do not think. You must remember that the classic MacOS uses Co-operation Multitasking!
I believe the Mac OS 9 does have limited real multitasking. But I think that all Applications run in the same process. The blues task!
Needing to restart computer is corner stone of Classic Mac Experience, you are lucky you don't need restarting your entire computer!!!
Yep, in the classic Mac OS, trying to force-quit an application was generally seen as a last-ditch effort. If you were lucky, the force quit would work and you could save your work in any other open applications before rebooting. More often, though, it wouldn't work and you had to hard-reboot the machine. People got *very* used to instinctively pressing Command-S every few minutes while working during that era!
I did manage to find something that appears to work when an app bombs in the emulator. It's called "bomb shelter" and it's by Ambrosia Software. It patches the normal bomb dialog and adds a continue button.
It doesn't work for stuff that's caught in an endless loop/watch cursor, and doesn't add the option to force quit -- but if the problem would normally throw a bomb alert on a real Mac, you'll get that alert and a continue button in the emulator (sheepshaver in this instance). As with a real Mac, if it keeps going after Continue, it's probably best to save anything important and restart.
It doesn't work for stuff that's caught in an endless loop/watch cursor, and doesn't add the option to force quit -- but if the problem would normally throw a bomb alert on a real Mac, you'll get that alert and a continue button in the emulator (sheepshaver in this instance). As with a real Mac, if it keeps going after Continue, it's probably best to save anything important and restart.
That would be similar in effect to running something like MacsBug and doing an 'es' when you get an exception. It probably has a similar success rate.