On Jan 20, 2006, at 5:38 PM, Mark James wrote:
Very exciting! ;-)
I am holding off on ordering a Macbook until I have an option for
Emailer. ;-)
Well, Basilisk starts, and the Mac OS tries to start, but the setup
hangs. I suspect it may be an issue with 10.4.4, alas I don't have
any OS X machines handy at this exact second that are 10.3 to verify
my suspicions.
I do hold out faith however, because it does get as far as showing
the Welcome to Mac startup screen (which is actually loaded as part
of the OS, so it is getting as far as reading the disk image).
Also, vMac starts and runs perfectly on the Intel iMac under 10.4.4.
Alas, vMac doesn't support ethernet so it isn't a viable solution for
Emailer. Basilisk does support ethernet, which is why I'm trying to
get it working. Other issues with vMac are it only emulates a Mac
Plus, so black and white, small screen, and 4 MB ram are the only
options... none ideal for Emailer use. Basilisk not only supports
ethernet, but also supports 68040 processors, lots more ram, color,
larger screen sizes, and OS versions thru 8.1. Much better setup to
run Emailer.
But since vMac does run, and system 7.5.5 boots and I can run 68k
applications inside it, I hold out great hope that Basilisk will also
be able to run.
That of course brings us to an obstacle... these are 68k only
emulators. There aren't currently any PPC Mac emulators (at least
none that run under OS X, I don't think there are any at all, but
maybe I overlooked ones for other OSes). Of course, for those
following my hacks, I've always said, my Emailer hacks were for the
PPC only version of Emailer. So pending Basilisk starts working, I
have to see if I can go back to the grindstone and hack the 68k
version of Emailer to also add the SMTP Authentication to it.
Otherwise, we may be able to take a step forward on machines that can
run Emailer, but we'll take a step backwards on ISPs that support
Emailer!
<sigh> Always a challenge.
BTW: Anyone have an OS X 10.3 machine they can do a quick test of
Basilisk and see if it boots fully into the OS and applications run?
That will at least tell me if I can stop messing with the settings
and just have to wait for the author of the OS X port to update for
10.4.4 (not sure of an ETA, but he did update for 10.4, so he at
least was doing work on it not too long ago)
All in all, its looking like I should start testing other email
clients, because another day of using Mail.app and I might go nuts :-)
-chris
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