Re: MacMiNT

[Julian Reschke <reschke@ESCHER.UNI-MUENSTER.DE>]

> 
> > I was able to retrieve both the May'94 version (MiNT 0.95) and
> > the VM version (MiNT 1.12).
> 
> VM? Is there a virtual memory version of MiNT for Mac????
> 
I guess that means: able to run on Macs with VM turned on.

 > The old versions seems to work -- well sort of. All my programs which
> > try to read the contents of the TOS header crash with as BUS error
> > (4F2 seems to point into nirvana).
> 
> Err... AFAIK MacMiNT isn't an Atari emulator. It's a port of MiNT
> with 'Just Enough TOS' to implement the GEMDOS etc. TOS calls which
> the ('unported' part of) MiNT uses.
> 

Yes, but I guess it has to support *some* system variables. All programs
linked with the MiNT library will try to access the cooke jar (just an 
example).

> 
> > The newer version crashes right away (finder reports 'error 1', my
> > machine is a PB520).
> 
> Are you sure that it's for Mac? last time I heard about MacMiNT (1/2 year
> ago) only the 1.08 sources (as it had that source only distrib condition)
> had been ported... (Which a friend of mine promptly tried on one of the
> schools Macs :)


Well, it came from a MacMiNT archive file :-)
> 
> 
> 	- Eero
> 
> 


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