I need a volunteer to help test os9 running under OSX

[sloopy]

On Sun, 2004-10-10 at 14:03, ted bonkenburg wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> After some time away, I've freed up more time to play with MOL.  What 
> I'm really interested in is the mac port of mol (running mol w/ the 
> host os being os x), and I'm trying to see how I can help move this 
> along :-)
> 
> Some time ago I managed to get os9 to boot based on reading this 
> mailing list.  Well, I started from scratch again with the latest 
> source tree and I have os9 booting again.  Then I painstakingly 
> repackaged mol so that it runs in the style of an os x app (i.e. it 
> lives in only one directory, installation should be drag-and-drop, to 
> remove you just drag 'Mom.app' to the trash, etc).  Finally, I've made 
> a very basic UI for creating and running virtual machines -- well, os9 
> vm's only at the moment.
> 
> I'd like a single volunteer to help me get this stage working so that I 
> can put it out for more people to play with and get some feedback.  I 
> have only one test machine (ibook) which is "polluted" with many 'make 
> installs' of mol, messing around trying to get things to work, etc.  So 
> here is what I'm looking for:
> 
> 1.  Someone who is running 10.3.5
> 2.  And has a G4 processor
> 3.  And has a copy of the Mac OS 9 install cd (preferably 9.1 since 
> that is what I'm using)
> 4.  And is willing to test things out and maybe go through a few 
> iterations (i.e. it probably won't run right the first time)
> 5.  And won't give it out to others (I just want to get it right before 
> I make it generally available)
> 6.  And understands that while it is very, very, extremely unlikely -- 
> this may hose your system :-)
> 
> I can provide an http address for download, so you don't have to worry 
> about your inbox getting slammed (I'm thinking of you here, Gasper :-).
> 
> Any takers?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> ted

you had me until the G4 part, i dont have a machine with a G4... anyone
have a spare G4 ZIF? ;')

sloopy.