I need a volunteer to help test os9 running under OSX
Steven McGrath
maniac1590 at yahoo.com
Tue Oct 12 15:17:00 MDT 2004
i would be happy to help out... 10.3.5 on a Powerbook FW800 I have
access to System6-OS9.22 disks
On Oct 12, 2004, at 7:10 AM, Romolo Camplani wrote:
> Hi!
> I would test your work!
> I have 10.3.5 and os 9.2 Install CD
> regards
>
> Romolo
> On Oct 10, 2004, at 8:03 PM, 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
>>
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