Now for the further bit of bad news for me is that I found that the 68020 based Shoebill ran 3.0.0 far more stable than 3.0.1 or 3.1. Luckily since I had added that SCSI file support to Cockatrice I could still partition out some disks and install from there. Not that I care that much I could always do a simple dump/restore of my A/UX stuff that I care about anyways. While on the surface this is mundane that does mean however that none of my images will actually work on Qemu as they don’t include a blessed copy of System 7. While I had numerous images built over the years for Shoebill there was one major issue when compared to Qemu, and that is Shoebill loads the kernel directly while Qemu emulates the hardware so it will boot MacOS 7 directly. In my case I remove the gtk and sdl as I’m running this headless. configure -target-list=m68k-softmmu -enable-gtk -enable-sdl
Thankfully Cat_7 has boiled it down to a really simple formula: git clone -b q800.upstream q800-upstream And thanks to Qemu’s 68040 support the time is at hand.įirst off I need to run this on Linux so I’ll need to build the appropriate branch myself.
Rather unintentionally some 7 years ago (to the day!) I was playing with an early gopher server on Linux, musing that one day it’d be cool to run it fully on A/UX (what is it anyways?!).
