[OpenBIOS] Even more findings to report about booting Mac OS 9

Tarl Neustaedter tarl-b2 at tarl.net
Sun Apr 17 03:40:04 CEST 2016


On 2016-Apr-16 21:14 , Segher Boessenkool wrote:
>> > One possible solution; take the boot-script code, and rather than
>> > interpret it directly, try compiling it.
> That does not work.  The OS9 bootscript contains many definitions as well.
> Not just colon definitions.

I thought the other definitions should work inside a colon definition.
Unfortunately, I no longer have access to an openboot to test against (I
retired late last year).

That's too bad.

> In summary, the two things you need:
>
> -- Parse the bootscript line by line.
> -- Have a separate interpretation mode R stack.
>

The separate R stack is probably the harder issue.




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