25 Nov
2018
25 Nov
'18
7:49 p.m.
I was hoping to just emulate it for now to avoid
potentially bad hardware,
but seems like I need to use the real hardware to avoid potentially bad
software! :)
Ah cool. I was at a friend's brother's house on a work trip out to Silicon
Valley. One of his friends was there, with something amazing running in
QEMU. It was a work in progress, but he said that there were a lot of
issues because QEMU was too accurate in emulating the MIPS procressors and
in addition to this, there was bugs in his former employer's hardware that
had software work-arounds in the real OS. So when trying to run that OS on
the emulated system the accuracy worked against him.
The NVRAM is totally dead; I've been reloading the
IDPROM contents each
time. I've already ordered replacement NVRAMs from China; we'll see how
they do. Otherwise, I'll be going with the filing/coin cell trick.
Interesting. Are they no longer made? I should get one for my Voyager.
Not sure; but, I can say, I've got SunOS 4.1.3
finally installed, and am
now looking at a sparse SunView desktop.
Very cool
Trying to build MazeWar results in:
ld: Undefined symbol
___bb_init_func
DREG_SEG
*** Error code 2
Not sure yet what to look for, but the source does say it was tested on
SunOS 3.1 and 3.4. So, I am trying to compile it on something a bit later.
Sun compiler I assume and not a GCC?
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: Ethan O'Toole