I'm having a Newton moment.
All this time I've been fighting serial ports to make my
Newt backups in Linux+VMware+NCU I've felt like I was
successful just to be able to back up without leaving Linux.
I'd heard about BasiliskII, but never tried it. But finally
today I pulled out my old Performa 475, saved the ROM to a
floppy and installed BasiliskII + Mac OS 8.1 on my Linux
box. It was a minor struggle to get it working with Red Hat
7.2, but I finally got the CVS version to compile and run
cleanly. I installed NCU and set everything up for
EtherTalk, both in BasiliskII and on my Newton 2100.
I just did my first Newton backup over ethernet in Linux!
And it was *soooooooo* fast... 4MB internal memory plus
about 14MB on a card, all in about 3 minutes flat. No
disconnects, no slowdowns, no crossing my fingers hoping
it's going to work, no need to watch the diagonal stripes
for a full 30 minutes.
I'm so stoked! ;) Everybody with Windows or Linux: go
download BasiliskII, download Mac OS 7.5.3 from Apple, buy
a $10 68k mac from some thrift store just for the ROM... so
that you can run BasiliskII and use NCU like it was meant
to be used. It's worth it. It's a thing of beauty.
Not to mention that my 1GHz Athlon runs BasiliskII so fast
that MacOS 8.1 boots in about five seconds (no joke!) and
runs Netscape 4 so naturally you'd think it was a G3.
Wow. I wish I'd done this a looooong time ago.
[awkward grin]
Well anyway... cheers, everyone!
-Aron
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