PC Setup under A/UX 3.1.1

[daereth]

Hi there! I hope someone could lend me their knowledge on the issue.

I am not sure if I am the only one to try, but I have a Quadra 610 I recently got off of eBay that I am restoring, it has a Houdini I DOS Compatibility card.

I built my own cable and can verify the card works in normal Mac OS, though I also planned on doing A/UX on this machine, I popped in a full 68040 and maxed out the RAM.

Apparently installing the "PC Setup 1.0.2" control panel into the A/UX MacPartition (System 7.0.1) leads the system to boot with an extension "bus error" -- is what I am attempting not possible? Is there another version of PC Setup that may work? (afaik for Houdini I the only one is 1.0.2).

For reference I am using AUX_3_1_1GB_Use_In_Shoebill.zip on a ZuluSCSI, I have also done my own clean install.

Thanks in advance!

 

[uyjulian]

Any extension that interacts directly with hardware will usually have issues in A/UX.

So in that case, do not use A/UX.

 

[daereth]

Any extension that interacts directly with hardware will usually have issues in A/UX.

So in that case, do not use A/UX.

Thanks for the info, as a long time *nix user I am very curious about A/UX, I have only used Mac OS previously on 68k hardware.

The added benefit of having access to the DOS card 'would have been nice' but of course we can't always have what we want.

I will "dual boot" the 610 and use the PC side of things on a separate disk.

Cheers,
Dearth

 

[MrFahrenheit]

The Macintosh environment under A/UX is more like a VM. A/UX is the primary OS (which does not support Macintosh native code), and Macintosh runs as a process under it.

Apps or extensions / control panels which touch hardware don’t work. And apps/extensions/control panels that are poorly written or written with illegal functions will also cause issues / crash /not run.