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On 2/17/00 3:18 PM, Martin Cornelius wrote:
> What i actually think, is:
> If you can build gcc and perl on your mac (i'm quite confident this is
> possible), you won't have to use another OS. It shouldn't be too hard to
> port firmdl3 and dll to the mac, the only hardware dependent code is the
> initialisation of the serial port.
From what I've heard, the gcc port to the mac is extremely old and ugly,
and nobody's putting in the effort to make a better one. I see little
point in making one now with MacOS X virtually right around the corner.
Although now that I think about it, the difficulty with making a Mac gcc
is integrating it with the runtime system. Since this particular gcc
wouldn't be compiling FOR the Mac, just ON the Mac, it may be much
simpler to get it up and running.
> However, if you don't want to take that effort, i'd strongly recommend
> linux. It's free, it's open-source, it rocks, and it runs perfectly on
> old 386 machines. (ever tried that with win9x?)
>
> I'm just stumbling about another idea: Why don't use native linux for
> the mac? AFAIK, it has become quite mature, and will exploit the full
> power of your machine. Depending on the kind of mac you have, you might
> want to visit one of the following sites:
I did have LinuxPPC on the machine before, but I ended up trashing it. I
did make a couple of attempts to reinstall it, but they all failed
miserably for reasons I am not entirely sure of. The just-released
LinuxPPC 2000 may fare better, and perhaps I'll give that one a shot. The
nice thing about using VirtualPC, though, is that I don't have to mess
with the computer much, and it's a minimum of muss and fuss. Everything's
in a small little container.
However, the Mac that I'm using for all this is not my main machine, so I
can screw it up royally without having much impact on the rest of what I
do.
On 2/17/00 3:39 PM, Markus L. Noga wrote:
> That's definitely a better option than using a PC emulator. Still, I'd
> like you to be able to use legOS without switching the OS on your host
> computer, too ;-)
As I said, the emulator is attractive in a way because it's a nice,
self-contained package. Fortunately, switching the OS on my host computer
isn't that big of a deal, I just have to make it work.
Thanks, all of you, for your input. It's very helpful. I believe I will
give LinuxPPC another go; this time I'll make sure not to zap the wrong
half of my hard drive. :)
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fearing to attempt." - William Shakespeare
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