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NetBSD can definitely mount the Apple variant of UFS as offered on OSX through Tiger. Should work for Rhapsody too though I will have to check to confirm. Also covers endian swapping (ppc filesystem was big endian). You'd need to compile a custom kernel for endian independent mounting...

Glad you got it working on 7.5.3, looks really cool on a classic! I've been looking for a copy or at least a file listing of the ftp for awhile to try to find what ported apps were available on Power MachTen.  There was no accompanying software cd with my copy and I don't think they were...

A Comparison of Power MachTen Versions   TLDR: Most people will want to use a 4.1.x release to have gmake, autoconf, and X11R6 libraries available in a more reliable filesystem than on the 4.0 series. 4.1.1 works best on classic systems, but 4.1.4 is needed to run on the pre-emptive...

I  have not heard anything back from Tenon since I tried to get back n touch with them at the end of last year to see if anyone else could get a copy of MachTen 4.1.4.

I do not know the owner and only exchanged a few emails with that person in 2019, but I did reach out to them via email to indicate that others were interested in purchasing Power MachTen. I will update this thread with the details of any positive replies on how to proceed with getting a copy...

It's possibly an early driver issue on the NetBSD side, but if you're using pre-7.5 Mac OS to initialize the hardware that could be a contributing factor. I see mbuf related commits to the relevant if_ae driver in the years after 1.3 was released in...

Sorry for the delay in responding while the forum was down. The amount of ram you have and the internal graphics at 8 bits or less should be okay.  You might have to change the window menu selection from Terminal 1 to X Server, but you should normally see an old SunOS style olwm desktop with a...

I would try setting the color depth to 8-bit (especially if you are on X11R5 in Pro MachTen) and use xtmenu -s to start the X server. Command+T should work normally though. Are you using the onboard graphics or a separate card?

I have the impression that people most often used MachTen to connect to corporate/university networks and to run personal mail or web servers from their desktop Macs.  The built-in BSD networking stack and tools on the command line are generally solid.  Connecting to something like an AIX server...

I've had Professional MachTen X11 work on loaded IICX and IICIs with 128 MB of ram.  I *think* eXodus will run with more constrained memory (8-10 MB) and you get X11R6 instead of the X11R5.  Are you trying to build X11 applications in MachTen or just to export another display to your Mac?

I'lll begin with the verions of Power MachTen that boot and exit cleanly on different releases of Mac OS. There are trade offs in functionality between the different versions of MachTen across various releases of Mac OS that will be the topic of a later post. MachTen 4.0 runs on Mac OS 7.5...

Sorry for the delay.  Here we go!  I was going to make one big post as a report, but instead I will break up the posts into topics posted on an ongoing basis to allow for a better discussion.

Hey Alex, sending you a PM and including the details below. I was able to get a copy of 4.1.4 at the end of June by contacting the webmaster through the site at https://www.tenon.com/products/machten.  I mentioned when I asked to buy a copy that I would be willing to pay the last listed price...

I'm still looking for 4.1.4 to run on OS 9 universal, but I wanted to at least give something back in the meantime. I've been testing the demo version of 4.1.1 (which only seems to work well on 8.x) and found that it requires a 32 bit version of SheepShaver (the display gets corrupted in the 64...

I'm looking for the last version of Machten (4.1.4) to run on OS 9.  Tenon's order page errors out, so I tried calling and emailing them over the past few weeks to say I'd buy a copy at the last listed price. No reply yet and I understand if they no longer have or sell copies, but any leads...