#Mac ux emulator install#

I think itвЂ™s because I have only 8MB of RAM, but everything crawls along. ItвЂ™s slow! Much, much slower than I expected.

They were the two items I was really unsure about.

#Mac ux emulator install#

The install itself is then split in toВ a Mac half, and an A/UX half.ДЇirst things first, lets fix up this machine so itвЂ™s in colour! Looking good!ДЄmazingly it looks like my Ethernet adapter and CD-ROM drive were detected. It will re-partition and format your drive. I just selected them all! No point mucking around. IвЂ™m guessing вЂњCustom InstallвЂ¦вЂќ will give you better control of your disk partitioning, and for a larger drive itвЂ™ll make most sense to do so. IвЂ™m not sure what Easy Install does, so I went straight for the вЂњCustom SoftwareвЂ¦вЂќ button. If not, youВ will need to try a different A/UX disk image, burning the image at a slower speed, a different CD-ROM drive or all three.

If all went well, it will find it and present you with various installation options. The system will boot up into a minimal 7.1 environment where it will attempt to locate the CD-media. The CD-ROM drive hanging out of the AppleCD SC enclosureД«oot theВ machine using your A/UX Install floppy.В While the machine is booting up, insert your A/UX install CD I used the вЂњ Macintosh Floppy EmulatorвЂќ by Steve Chamberlin as the boot device and hooked up a PanasonicВ CR-506-B in an old Apple CD SC enclosure. Either find another or backup anything important.Д®very blue moon install media can be found on eBay, but youвЂ™re likely to have more luckВ in the usual places (*cough* Macintosh Garden, WinWorld *cough*). The install media, including installation boot floppyДЄs far as I can tell the installation will wipe everything offВ your drive.The Mac IIcx is the firstВ machine IвЂ™ve had that I can try it out on (I have another 68K Mac, an LC 475 вЂ“ but sadly it was never supported by A/UX). IвЂ™veВ had a play with it before, but itвЂ™s not quite the same experience and I always seemed to have issues withВ the mouse emulation so it was never much fun. You can run A/UX under an emulator named Shoebill, which does a terrific job вЂ“ but has some limitations (notably no sound). What I find mostВ fascinating about it is that it came out during a period where Apple desperately needed a new OS (see вЂњPinkвЂќ, Copland, Star Trek, etc), but itВ seemed to never get any traction internally within Apple.В As a result it never took off, although admittedly itВ was expensive and for itвЂ™s day had quite high system requirements (IвЂ™m told it shines on 16MB+ machines, but this was in a time when 4MB was the norm and 8MB luxury). A little bit like OS X is today, or certainly Blue Box/Classic was under Rhapsody/OS X. Now that my Mac IIcx is working fairly well, I decided it was time to install A/UX.ДЄ/UX is AppleвЂ™s Unix and itвЂ™s a bit of an oddity it can run System 7 apps out of the box.