Re: OldWorld Mac-specific problems; perhaps drop?

[Rick Thomas <rbthomas55@pobox.com>]

On Jul 13, 2006, at 6:38 PM, p2@mind.be wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 04:07:51PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > Ok, so, do you have any roadmap for adding floppy support to  
> > quick ? And will
> > quick allow to get cdrom support on oldworld machines ?
>
> Code exists. Needs debugging though (read: it doesn't work).
> quik should be able to get cdrom support on oldworld (modulo OF bugs).
>
> > I agree that quick seems the worthier solution compared to miboot,  
> > but i
> > haven't looked at the code of both.
>
> It should even be possible to make a unified loader which replaces  
> both
> yaboot and quik.

I'm willing to help with testing/debugging either or both of these  
two projects (floppy quik and merged bootloader) on my testing Beige  
G3 (I can also get occasional access to a few other types of old  
Macs, if that would be helpful).

Please keep me in the loop.

Thanks!

Rick