Installing Appearance Manager

| Who Needs Appearance Manager? The Appearance Manager is a new technology from Apple that allows for much better implementation of graphical user interfaces. And since Bernie depends on the presence of Appearance Manager, your MacOS must support such. MacOS 7.6 MacOS 7.6 lacks Appearance Manager. You need to add an appropriate extension to make Bernie run on your system. MacOS 8.0 Appearance Manager is built into the system since MacOS 8.0. The very first implementation was only halfway done and is lacking a considerable amount of functionality. Thus you need to upgrade Appearance Manager of MacOS 8.0 to a newer version. MacOS 8.1 and later Your system already includes all necessary files. You do not need to install Appearance Manager. |
| Download Appearance Manager You can download the Appearance Manager from the following location: http://www.emulation.net/nintendo/appearance.sit.hqx |
| Unstuff The Archive The file you have downloaded (appearance.sit.hqx) is compressed and needs to be unstuffed first. Your MacOS system came with a decompression utility "StuffIt Expander". This utility is installed on your startup disk in the "Internet" directory. The full path is shown to the right. When you have found StuffIt Expander, grab the Appearance Manager archive you have downloaded and drop it onto the StuffIt Expander icon. |
| Install The Software Part of the Appearance Manager is a text file that explains what files have to be installed where. This installation process depends on the system software version you are using. Please follow the directions in the Read Me document. |