The upstream native build has two display windows. You have to move the second one out of the way to see the checkerboard and cursor in the first display window. You can remove the second display window by removing
, "Sixty6Video" from machinetnt.cpp. Later commits from my fork should fix that.argv[0] = '/Volumes/Work/Programming/dingusppc/joevt-dingusppc/build-xcode/bin/Debug/dingusppc'
argv[1] = '-d'
argv[2] = '--has_sixty6=0'
argv[3] = '--serial_backend=socket'
argv[4] = '-b'
argv[5] = '7500.rom'
argv[6] = '--machine'
argv[7] = 'pm7500'
argv[8] = '--rambank1_size=128'
argv[9] = '--rambank2_size=128'
argv[10] = '--rambank3_size=128'
argv[11] = '--rambank4_size=128'
argv[12] = '--rambank5_size=128'
argv[13] = '--rambank6_size=128'
argv[14] = '--rambank7_size=128'
argv[15] = '--rambank8_size=128'
argv[16] = '--rambank9_size=128'
argv[17] = '--rambank10_size=128'
argv[18] = '--rambank11_size=128'
argv[19] = '--rambank12_size=128'
argv[20] = '--fdd_img'
argv[21] = '/Volumes/FreeSpace/Mac OS 8.1 converted/Disk Tools PPC.dc42'
argv[22] = '--mon_id'
argv[23] = 'Multiscan17in'--fdd_wr_prot=1 so that the system knows not to attempt writing to the floppy.
It'd be cool to have dual windows on an Infinite Mac emulator!
Brilliant!
Oh, does that mean a real PM6100 can work without a floppy drive too?
I've been wondering that. There certainly seems to be an understandable interest in NeXTStep so I guess BeOS is on the agenda somewhere!
I think macs boot without a floppy drive? I mean, I haven't tried with every model, and have seen it cause a longish timeout, but I don't thing it is mandated.
The goal is to be able to run all the OSs. For BeOS, I think we need to add multitrack CD support? Unless there's an ISO with single track that can be booted or an HD image? I think multitrack CD support should be easy to add. Then we can try booting it to see how it works with the emulation as it is so far (which means no sound input, no floppy write, no internal SCSI, (just external SCSI), no ethernet, etc.).
Shouldn't need multitrack support with a premade image?
Wow! This is all very interesting! Is this the PM9600 emulator?
This was my quick test to see if BeOS boots on the PM9500 in InfiniteMac. The reference to the PM9600 is my real physical BeOS machine.
I tried with Mac OS 7.6.1 and got the exact same behaviour. The error isn't clear enough for me to pick up any "why" sadly.
Sorry, I meant the PM9500.
There's no MMU on Infinite Mac's PM9500 emulator (it's SheepShaver-based I think). Could either of these be a possible reason?
BeOS requires a MMU to run so it won't work in SheepShaver.
SheepShaver doesn't emulate the MMU.
The 7500 isn't sheepshaver
This is how far I got too. Does the same with 7.5.3 and with 7.6.1.
I'm glad this topic is becoming fairly fruitful! When you re-read the thread you should see that sometimes I keep mentioning Dingus PPC 603(e) emulation. Once that works OK, it could be a starting point for an actual BeBox emulator on Infinite Mac, because, well, @mihai 's doing an amazing job, but if we let him rest on his laurels it might go to his head ;-) !
