Re: [Scribia-dev] Carbon build probs

[Cygnus <cy...@po...>]

On 6/6/01 9:15 AM, "Lark" <lar...@ya...> wrote:

> At 12:38 AM -0700 6/6/01, Cygnus wrote:
>> BTW, anyone else running X?  The flex pluggin isn't doesn't show up for =
me
>> when running codewarrior natively.  Have to either boot into 9 or launch=
 as
>> a classic app to compile scribia.l
>=20
> I'm not sure my souped-up Mac clone is supported. (It has a G3
> upgrade card, an Adaptec SCSI card, and a no-name USB card. And I
> probably need to replace its ancient IMX TwinTurbo with something
> from ATI.)
>=20
> Unfortunately, work insists of buying me PC laptops. Nice to run
> FreeBSD, but I'd rather have thenm buy me a TiBook. Anyone have
> contacts at Apple for academic donations of hardware? We do good
> research :-)
>=20
> That means, however, that I'm very interested in a Windows port of
> Scribia once the CL version is out there. CW should support x86 code
> generation, does PP run there?


There's a chance you can get it running.  Its not a straight install from
the CDs though.  You have to do some witchcraft. =3D)  I'll look up the URL
for the instructions on how to install os x on old world machines when I ge=
t
home from work and send it out.  It wasn't too hard to do, but there is a
couple hang ups in it.  It mainly takes adding a couple kexts from darwin
into the install of X to give support for the old motherboards.

I'm in a similar situation to you in that I'm running an 8600 with a G4
card, usb, IDE controller and a voodoo3 in it.  OS X works pretty well once
I figured out a quirk in it.  Only thing that sucks is not having any
drivers for the voodoo3 card.  CL's right on the edge of being unplayable
for me in os x.  The redraw of the play screen is a little jumpy.  Not bad
for short play times, but when I'm going to be on for awhile I have to boot
into 9 to avoid a headache.

BTW, I've seen mostly positive result of people with the TwinTurbo.   I
think it might actually be supported.  But I'm not positive.  ATI cards are
really picky.  A lot of people with them are getting kernal panics at start
up.  Seems that if you don't have an OEM board, your our of luck and if you
do have an OEM board, you have about a 50/50 shot.  Or at least that=B9s the
way it sounds from everything I've seen.


Cygnus
cy...@po...

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