I need a volunteer to help test os9 running under OSX

[Jerome Vernet]

Le 10 oct. 04, à 20:03, ted bonkenburg a écrit :

> 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

Not me, but my G4 yes

> 2.  And has a G4 processor

Two G4 processor (1,25), does it fit ?

> 3.  And has a copy of the Mac OS 9 install cd (preferably 9.1 since 
> that is what I'm using)

I have, from systeme 0.2 to 9.2.2 ;)

> 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)

I can do that.

> 5.  And won't give it out to others (I just want to get it right 
> before I make it generally available)
I will try ;)
> 6.  And understands that while it is very, very, extremely unlikely -- 
> this may hose your system :-)

Hum.... I love playing ;)

>
> 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?
Me, if you want.

Jerome

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/jerome.vernet/