GAgattilorenz·Dec 29, 2023
And the Shoebill emulator, if you want to run A/UX yourself: https://github.com/pruten/shoebill
Or, apparently, a recent-ish QEMU, but I haven’t tried that myself
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A Macintosh II emulator that runs A/UX
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And with shoebill[1] you can run A/UX, Apple's Unix with a MacOS GUI. What I love is that it was a real Unix, but it could run Mac apps, and it even provided a graphical…
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10 sourcesShoebill: A Macintosh II emulator that runs A/UX (and A/UX only)
2 points · Open discussionFor those interested, Shoebill※ is an emulator designed specifically to run A/UX and it’s works very well!
※ https://github.com/pruten/Shoebill
In So what is the deal with A/UX anyways?And to test A/UX, there's the Shoebill emulator: https://github.com/pruten/shoebill
In Personal Computing on an Amiga in 2021Shoebill is an emulator built specifically to run A/UX.
https://github.com/pruten/Shoebill
In 1991 Macintosh Quadra with Mac OS 8.1 as an Electron AppIf you're short on 68K Mac hardware but want to try A/UX, check out Spoonbill:
https://github.com/pruten/shoebill
"Macintosh II emulator that runs A/UX (and A/UX only)."
In Installing A/UX on the Quadra 610 (2018)There's an emulator that was written to run just a/ux:
https://github.com/pruten/shoebill
You need to track down roms and install media.
In Why did Apple's Copland fail when so many 90s OS succeed, dominate world todayAnd with shoebill[1] you can run A/UX, Apple's Unix with a MacOS GUI.
What I love is that it was a real Unix, but it could run Mac apps, and it even provided a graphical interface to select/explain the command line switches of some Unix tools.
[1] https://github.com/pruten/shoebill
In Early Macintosh Emulation Comes to the ArchiveIt might be worth pointing out that there is a Macintosh II emulator built solely for the purpose of running A/UX.
https://github.com/pruten/Shoebill
A mirror of the well-known A/UX software repository, Jagubox, has been published at the Internet Archive.
https://archive.org/details/25_12_2009_jagubox
In How the Atari ST Almost Had Real Unix (2011)Shoebill – A Macintosh II emulator that runs A/UX
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