Amiga OS4 on old (PPC) Macs

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ncafferkey wrote:
You should be able to get an Open Firmware interface on the serial port, but you might need to hold down a keyboard combination to get to it.

It has no serial port... well it's got a "phone" port which is probably a serial port but it's a DIN socket...

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niklasni1 wrote:
A 7600 is not going to have any networking servers running by default. The only FTP/HTTP servers were 3rd party, too.

It has got two serial ports (on mini-DIN socets), marked modem and printer. Both can be connected to PC serial ports (both 9 and 25 pin) with a simple mechanical adaptor.

But even if you got into OpenFirmware via serial, the only thing you would be able to do was boot it into MacOS 8.6 or whatever's on it and there's no way to interact with that over serial line.

Basically, no keyboard and monitor == useless Mac. It will boot up without a keyboard attached, though (no need to Press F1 to Resume), but you can do fuck all with it unless it's been configured first.

I might pay you for the RAM and G3 card, though..

Yup, I guessed it basically a brick...

You can buy the CPU card new from Sonnet for $50 (http://store1.sonnettech.com/product_info.php?cPath=22_32&products_id=44)  and I'm pretty sure the ram would cost more to send than you could pick up from you local junk store... :-/

The SCSI HD is a bit more interesting...

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niklasni1 wrote:
Actually, someone with a mack might be able to put together a boot ISO for you with an FTP server on it which you could burn.

I like that thinking... perhaps a Boot CD with VNC on it?

You'd need to access the firmware (or a keyboard) to boot from the CD, though..

BUM!!!! :-x

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bloodline wrote:

niklasni1 wrote:
Actually, someone with a mack might be able to put together a boot ISO for you with an FTP server on it which you could burn.

I like that thinking... perhaps a Boot CD with VNC on it?

You'd need to access the firmware (or a keyboard) to boot from the CD, though..

BUM!!!! :-x

What about an auto running CD that will run upon insertion... which will start a VNC server?

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niklasni1 wrote:

bloodline wrote:
You can buy the CPU card new from Sonnet for $50 (http://store1.sonnettech.com/product_info.php?cPath=22_32&products_id=44)  and I'm pretty sure the ram would cost more to send than you could pick up from you local junk store... :-/

Sonnet don't sell to Europe from their site.

The RAM is actually a special type (5v 168 pin, as opposed to the 3.3v 168 pin which was used in PCs at the time) and, whilst not exactly 'rare' is not quite /that/ common either... Depending on how many chips makes up your 256MB set and how easy it would be to get money to you, I might actually be genuinely interested.

Ok, where do you live?

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_ThEcRoW wrote:
Bloodline, haven't read the entire thread but saw somewhere boot cd. Are you working on a os4 boot cd for macs?
I'm higly interested.
Thanks in advance!!!

I was working on a headless PowerMac boot CD... sadly the PowerMac's total lack of industry standard connectors has totally defeated my efforts...

To be really honest, I'm more likely to run AROS than OS4 on this old PowerMac... I have a BlizzPPC and virtually no PPC only Amiga Software...

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motorollin wrote:
So if Hyp win, they get rights to release OS4 for other platforms? Is that right?

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moto

I think so... but three things, as I understand it;

1) They have already lost, as AInc. have apparently (and surprisingly) kept their part of the deal... the $xxxx buy back... and now Hyp are contesting it... As I understand it, I could be wrong here.

2) If they did win, they wouldn't be able to use the Name (and/or Amiga IP?)... Again I could be wrong...

3) If they did win, they have stated "NO x86 PORT"... so I have no idea what platform they plan to run it on... If I go PPC, then I'm with the EFIKA and that would be best with MOS or AROS... or SAM and I would want to run AROS there...


Apologies if any or all of this is FUD...