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Terrific! This is on real hardware right? Very impressive! Getting it running on hardware is always a much bigger challenge than in an emulator. I as mentioned, I have transformed my emulator experiments (https://github.com/pappadf/powermac-nt-hal/tree/pappadf-experiments) to work with a...

Sounds excellent! This is on real hardware, right? I've reworked my experimental branch to use the floppy + unmodified CD approach as well (I've pushed all updates to that branch). It almost works fully in the emulator.

Yes, I picked: OEM 000-48303 (October 1996) Workstation release. md5sum nt-4.0-ppc.iso # ab37556d72818ed082c1d01c2d7f1898 see https://github.com/pappadf/powermac-nt-hal/wiki/Emulator-Media-you-must-supply

Yes, long term that's a much better approach.

Yes to both; and yes, Microsoft did port the cirrus driver to ppc. It ships on the cd. SCSI: symc810.sys, ms' own miniport for the sym/ncr 53c8xx family, driving both 53c825a. Nothing new. Getting setup to choose it took one patch, though -the veneer reported the scsi identifier as NCR,53C810...

I agree complete - I've no intention to modify/patch anything more than necessary. There are 4 things that today needs to be added or patched: Adding a new HAL (*.DLL) file (separate file) Adding an ADB driver (separate file) Modifying \PPC\TXTSETUP.SIF to add a new installation option (the ANS...

Milestone: I have a desktop on emulated ANS. (Doesn't necessarily carry over to real hardware, all stuff in https://github.com/pappadf/powermac-nt-hal/tree/pappadf-experiments) My next idea is to build a small web application (local page js/wasm only, no server side): You load an iso image of...

I pushed new content to https://github.com/pappadf/powermac-nt-hal/wiki (as before, indeed based on AI tools).

All my recent experiments are on the pappadf-experiments branch, not main: https://github.com/pappadf/powermac-nt-hal/tree/pappadf-experiments Where it's got to on the emulator: text-mode Setup runs end to end, the installed system boots from disk (veneer -> OSLOADER -> registry hive -> boot...

I'm just the middle-man here as most of my work was carried out by ai, but nevertheless: This sounds exactly like what my agent hit around wall 18-22 in https://github.com/pappadf/powermac-nt-hal/blob/main/STORY.md: "Both controllers get correct memory addresses and IRQs, and interrupts occur...

My latest experiments/progress in a separate branch/PR: https://github.com/pappadf/powermac-nt-hal/pull/1

Thanks! Great progress! How far into the boot are you here, i.e. what were the previous screens/output that you passed?

I've now uploaded it here: https://github.com/pappadf/powermac-nt-hal We can always find a better home for it later on - just want to make sure that you get access to it asap. Note that I didn't really take the time to clean it up or review it properly. There could be a lot of strange...

The best way to describe it: an experimental hack based on vibe coding + some bits and pieces from maciNTosh/maciNTosh-bandit/entii-for-workcubes projects. I will try to publish/upstream it somehow - I just don't know how yet. It will of course be under GPL-2.0 if I keep some code from the...

New update (sorry for spamming, but I wanted to share latest): NT kernel running, uses the Cirrus graphics card in text mode, crashes on INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE: