Comments on: AMIX

By: neozeed

neozeed — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 02:58:37 +0000

In reply to Roy.

Yes, I’ve even suggested to the author about SLIRP so it won’t rely on winpcap …

Sadly this is a 2 user version of AMIX so it is very limited in those regards.

By: neozeed

neozeed — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:42:43 +0000

In reply to Tor.

I thought SUN had already made the move off of BSD .. wow kind of funny they were shopping to Commodore of all people about doing a SYSV ..

Amiga on SPARC?

I’m sure the opportunities screwed up were.. monumental.

By: Tor

Tor — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 12:13:41 +0000

Unix on Amiga, very interesting. It’s probably as you say though, the processor targeted was a bit too late for 1991.
A small correction: Sun’s OS at the time wasn’t SYSV-based and wasn’t called Solaris (all that happened years later), it was the BSD-based original SunOS (in Sparc version, as we know Sun had targeted 68k before 1990). My favorite Unix in 1991. SYSV-based systems were not very nice to work with back then, at least not those I had access to.

By: ampharos

ampharos — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 16:21:54 +0000

In reply to Raijinzrael.

That still doesn’t protect you from Basilisk patching the shit out of the ROM, so normal Mac OS doesn’t talk to the non-existant floppy controllers, but rather a virtual disk pretending to be a floppy. Or the lack of an MMU. Or lack of any controllers, for that matter.

Basilisk and friends work by patching the fuck out of the ROM so it doesn’t emulate hardware, it makes the OS work with it’s emulated interfaces. MESS is as close as we get. Not a chance.

By: Raijinzrael

Raijinzrael — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 14:35:26 +0000

In reply to Peter Godwin.

BasiliskII Build 142 on windows is your friend, it can emulate a SCSI bus very well, to the extent that you can attach real and emulated SCSI devices to the emulator using the ASPI layer provided by host, and with some tunning the Mac inside the VM will recognize almost all them.

Using the built-in Win7 VHD feature and an emulated CDROM like Alcohol or WinCDEMU, you can even install MacOS to a VHD file!!!

Using TotalMounter from KernSafe and its “RAW-HDD” emulation feature, you even can get a dd-able image that can be applied to a real Mac HDD to make it bootable. All that verified by me.

Since AU/X comes with a bootable CD, the only thing that is need by the OS and basilisk lacks really is the 68k MMU. On this sort maybe “Previous”, or MESS can do a better job that Basilisk.

By: Roy

Roy — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 07:40:49 +0000

Did you get winuae networking working?

By: neozeed

neozeed — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 04:53:38 +0000

In reply to Antoni Sawicki.

it was rather touchy to get installed and it could kill itself without too much provocation..

I want to say going from a 4GB CF card to a 1GB or 500MB helped a bunch..

A/UX is more like Xenix than like System 6, it wants to live in a small house.

By: Antoni Sawicki

Antoni Sawicki — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 01:21:43 +0000

In reply to neozeed. I'm getting errors and freezes on this. Maybe I will try another make / model.

By: Peter Godwin

Peter Godwin — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:09:11 +0000

In reply to Antoni Sawicki. The current Mac emulators do not fully emulate SCSI. Both Mini vMac and Basilisk II patch the ROM for floppy, hard disk, etc. Nor do they emulate the MMU, preventing AU/X from booting (as well as the lack of hardware) However the Mac emulation in MESS has come along way. I'm not sure if it can boot AU/X yet, but it certainly is emulating the floppy controller varients and SCSI, as well as various graphics and sound chips, rather than just patching the ROM.

By: neozeed

neozeed — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 18:29:37 +0000

In reply to Antoni Sawicki. years ago I ran it from CF .. using one of those CF 2 IDE then an IDE to SCSI bridge...