Hi allUnfortunately, A/UX has a very limited set of machines it's compatible with, and since there aren't 'Enablers' or other similar things, if it won't work on a machine there's no really good way of fixing it.
i've spent the last few days hacking away, trying any all and everything to make A/UX 3.0.1 install on my Macintosh Color Classic.
I've used all combinations of the CC with its original logic board, a board from an lc575, and a lc575 with its original board.
the farthest i've managed is the video turns grey and nothing happens, after reading the installation cd for a bit from booting the installer diskette, it reads the CD then screen turns grey and then nothing.
to make the installer diskette boot at all on my color classic with is logic board, i added a system enabler.
has anyone succeeded in making any version of A/UX work on a color classic?
I've got FPU chips on both the lc575 board and the CC board.
regards,
Eric Shattow
Also unfortunately, all the LC boards are incompable and that includes the CC. Your best bet for a UNIX-like on a CC would probably be Debian Linux or NetBSD, though it doesn't have the coolness of A/UX by far. With access to the source you might could make A/UX compile in such a way as to run on later 68ks, but as far as I know the source is still locked away somewhere at Apple.
Even if you could make A/UX boot and run, it'd quite likely not support other staples such as LC PDS for network cards or perhaps even the SCSI or IDE chips on the boards. I don't recall off-hand what SCSI chip is on the LC575 board and/or CC board, not sure if they were in any supported machines. Video would be an issue too since it'd need to be supported, though A/UX would probably support that bit fine.
All in all, probably not possible, but would indeed be a bit of fun :) Shame Apple didn't continue, they had a good thing going there for awhile. Could had OS X in 1990.
Scott Holder
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