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From: "David Leimbach via 9fans" <9fans@9fans.net>
To: 9fans <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] fork of a fork of Inferno that runs on Mac OS amd64
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2021 15:49:24 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4367D4D4-C8E7-425E-8A31-1654B6F1109D@me.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANGQBe6sQeWg7nKPeBQRWtfiWwq71-qQdV1uYM7O=HoCxeGzsg@mail.gmail.com>

No problem!

It seems acme does work ok, but it uses XQuartz.

It’s been so long since I’ve used inferno I’ve forgotten how to get started!

Dave


> On Jul 30, 2021, at 12:39 PM, Joseph Stewart <joseph.stewart@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Good job friend. Thanks for doing this.
> 
> On Fri, Jul 30, 2021 at 9:26 AM leimy2k via 9fans <9fans@9fans.net> wrote:
>> 
>> https://github.com/Leimy/9ferno-leimy has the crawling phase of a port of Inferno that will run on modern Mac OS.
>> 
>> So far - no GUI as I wanted to just get it working to start, and I'm sharing it in case folks want to help out.
>> 
>> And I really mean that... I've done some things that I don't think are great, like renaming the panic function to avoid a name collision with some system headers.
>> 
>> I based the work from the OpenBSD amd64 emu port here: git://git.9front.org/plan9front/9ferno, and my intention is to get the changes cleaned up, get the GUI working (maybe port over the drawterm stuff from the 9front drawterm) etc.
>> 
>> If you try to use it now, just know that backspace/delete will exit the emu, and you'll want ctrl-h to backspace instead.
>> 
>> I did very minimal testing but ndb/dnsquery was working.
>> 
>> - Dave
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-30 16:26 leimy2k via 9fans
2021-07-30 16:39 ` Joseph Stewart
2021-07-30 19:49   ` David Leimbach via 9fans [this message]

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