I know that there is some people out there that seem to be all into Xenix, and old binaries… So I thought I’d share this little gem I found before I head out for the day… I came across this post, talking about how ibcs2 has fallen apart in the latest version of NetBSD. But the gem in there is that version 4.0.1 works perfectly fine!
So I copied in the old gcc, filled in some bits and….
Qemu 0.14.0 NetBSD 4.0.1 running Xenix gcc
It works!
Robots is so perfect you’d never know!
Qemu 0.14.0 NetBSD 4.0.1 running robots
And it runs Xenix Dungeon/Zork without missing a beat!
Qemu 0.14.0 NetBSD 4.0.1 running dungeon
So this may be yet another avenue for some people… I’d suspect that you could even build the 32v userland under the Xenix tools…? Since all the default stuff is keyed to licensing, but you could roll your own Unix v7 32bit userland which basically is Xenix and go from there…. Maybe even some of the OpenSolaris SYSVR4 stuff as well but that sounds too ambitious!
hello!
sorry no speak english
Lo siento no hablo ingles, te saludo desde Xalapa Veracruz Mexico
solo quiero preguntarte como copio el gcc del netbsd 4.0.1 y se lo pongo al netbsd 5.1
o cuales son los pasos a seguir para que jalen los binarios de xenix
gracias por tu atencion
Hola desde Las Vegas!
Creo que algo se pierde en la traducción … El CCG que usé en el blog era para Xenix …
Debido a que estoy corriendo NetBSD para el sistema operativo, sólo los archivos wget Xenix, se descomprimen y se corrió ‘untar’.
Sería algo parecido a esto:
wget http://vpsland.superglobalmegacorp.com/install/xenix/robots-xenix.vfd.gz
tar -zxvf robots-xenix.vfd.gz
Entonces usted debería ser capaz de ejecutar directamente los robots .. No he probado la versiones posteriores de NetBSD para su compatibilidad, pero iBCS2 5.0 se rompió …
afaik, wouldn’t the UNIX version of Word run under this?
Yes, word and word perfect were popular applications for iBCS2.
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