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Radius RocketShare & SoftPC 3.1

IIfx

Well-known member
Just wondering if the Rocket is compatible with SoftPC or not. It would be really cool if you could boot an emulated x86 PC on a StageII Rocket within a Mac. A PC within a Mac within a Mac! I'm getting an unimplemented trap error each time it tries to run on the Rocket StageII.

 

defor

You can make up something and come back to it late
Staff member
I'm really not surprised, but I feel that there's no reason it shouldn't work with some work...

there's also not much reason a rocket can't boot A/UX either TECHNICALLY, but it also won't boot.

I suspect that there's some core differences in the rocket rom as compared to the 900/950 rom that it pretends to be, but I haven't looked closely or bothered to think about it much... would be nice to know... 

 

Trash80toHP_Mini

NIGHT STALKER
I'd test SoftPC in a baseline configuration on a standard Rocket running in accelerator mode under RocketWare before taking a whack at running it under RocketShare. Then I'd move on to testing it on the Stage II Rocket in its RocketSare only environment. Baby steps. [;)] ]'>

 

IIfx

Well-known member
I will need to get my IIcx or IIci running first before testing RocketWare. Apparently the IIfx does not support using a 33mhz Rocket with RocketWare, only RocketShare. Not sure if this is true or not.

 
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