Making an Autorun CD for MacOS 8.x

[motorollin]

I don't have an old Mac, but I can test it in ShapeShifter running Mac OS 8 if that helps.

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moto

[motorollin]

I was just about to post that very link ;-) I can try to get it working under an emu, but it would be 68k. Did OS 8 have 68k emulation?

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moto

[motorollin]

Hmm actually I could never get TCP/IP to work in ShapeShifter. However, I've got a copy of Mac OS 8.0 upstairs so I could install that under Basilisk on my MacBook and try it there. Any good? :-)

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moto

[motorollin]

bloodline wrote:
Sounds like a winner!!! Come on!!!! lets see if we can actually do this!!! :-D

WIP :-)

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moto

[motorollin]

niklasni1 wrote:
The VNC servers all seem to need a system extension...

Does that mean there's no point me creating the autostart CD?

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moto

[motorollin]

bloodline wrote:
This one does not require an extension.. but will work better with one:

http://www.redstonesoftware.com/downloads/

Is it 68k? I would set up a PPC emulator but I only have a 68k copy of the OS.

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moto

[motorollin]

Not sure what you mean. I don't have a PPC version of the OS to set this up. I can install the 68k version of OS 8 and try to use it to create an autostart CD with the PPC version of that software, but I have no idea if it will work.

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moto

[motorollin]

Blimey... I'll try!

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moto

[motorollin]

Me too :-)
Getting there.

Erm, now what :lol:

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moto

[motorollin]

I've found a 68k VNC server which runs without extensions. It complains that performance will suffer but it runs. Unfortunately I can't access the emulated Mac's network from my MacBook to test it, as it's on a different subnet (although it can get to the Internet...) Any ideas?

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moto

[motorollin]

Ok.... so any ideas what I do with it?

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moto

[motorollin]

I'm not even sure the VNC server is working. I downloaded a 68k VNC viewer and pointed it at localhost, and it just sat there. It actually appears to have hung the emulator.

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moto

[motorollin]

Going to try making an autostart disc anyway. Will let you know if it works.

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moto

[motorollin]

I thought you said you can ping it?

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moto

[motorollin]

Hmm, so it's not booting or the drive is dead. Anyway, I used that MacImage software to supposedly create an image with an autostart app on it, but it won't burn. This is becoming very frustrating!

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moto