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Shoebill
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a Macintosh II emulator that runs A/UX
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a Macintosh II emulator that only runs A/UX
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(but not A/UX 3.x.x yet)

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Shoebill - a Macintosh II emulator that can only run A/UX
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Shoebill - a Macintosh II emulator that runs A/UX
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(except A/UX 3.x.x currently)
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See the wiki on https://code.google.com/p/shoebill for better
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See the wiki on https://github.com/pruten/shoebill for better
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documentation on building and running Shoebill.
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*** KEEP IN MIND ***
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* Shoebill v.first-terrible-code-drop (a.k.a. version 0.0.1)
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* ONLY RUNS A/UX
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* BUT NOT 3.x.x (I’m working on it)
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* Only 1.x.x and 2.x.x
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* Shoebill has broken, ultra-minimalist support for
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* 68020 (CPU) + 68851 (MMU) + 68881 (FPU)
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* Some instructions for ‘020 and most for the MMU and FPU are unimplemented
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* SCSI, ADB, and VIA
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* Shoebill does not support
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* The floppy controller, IWM/SWIM
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* Serial
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* Ethernet
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* PRAM
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* Most other things
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*** RUNNING ***
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You will need
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* OS X and a 64-bit Intel Macintosh
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(32-bit builds may be possible in the future)
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(32-bit builds are possible by twiddling the makefiles)
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* A Macintosh II or IIx ROM
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* A disk image with A/UX 1.x.x or 2.x.x installed
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* If you happen to have an installation CD image for A/UX, that will work
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* The kernel on that image (/unix). Shoebill can’t read
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SVFS or UFS file sytems yet to load the kernel directly
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from the disk image.
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* Open Shoebill.app and select Preferences menu item
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* Set the paths for your ROM, kernel, and disk image(s).
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* Do use SCSI ID #0 for your A/UX boot image.
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* Give A/UX a reasonable amount of RAM - say, 32MB
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* Press “Apply and Run”
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