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  • Coherent 4.2.10 on VirtualBox 5.2.8

    From Tyrone F. Horneigh@21:1/5 to All on Sun Apr 1 00:15:48 2018
    I just downloaded the 2018-03-06 version of the VM and installed it in VirtualBox. Runs fine under Windows. Unfortunately the OS X version
    still has the very slow IDE controller. Takes about 7 minutes to get to
    the login prompt on MacOS 10.13.3 High Sierra.

    Anyways, other than that it seems fine. Of course on Windows it boots
    in a few seconds. I used Coherent in the 80s and early 90s, still have
    the disks and manuals. I seem to recall that the last version I had
    was 4.2.05, but I would have to find my disks to be sure. I also
    remember a "pardon our dust" message as it installed, as it did LOTS of
    things during the install.

    Thanks for all the work on this, with the ready to go VMs and all. I
    know it must have been a LOT of work.

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  • From Udo Munk@21:1/5 to Tyrone F. Horneigh on Mon Apr 9 13:24:06 2018
    On Sunday, April 1, 2018 at 7:15:54 AM UTC+2, Tyrone F. Horneigh wrote:
    I just downloaded the 2018-03-06 version of the VM and installed it in VirtualBox. Runs fine under Windows. Unfortunately the OS X version
    still has the very slow IDE controller. Takes about 7 minutes to get to
    the login prompt on MacOS 10.13.3 High Sierra.

    Yes, the OSX version still has some bugs somewhere in the IDE controller related stuff, might need a bug report to get this fixed.
    You can improve the boot time a bit by switching the VM to 386 emulation instead of using the host's 64bit CPU, but that also slows down everything,
    and you really feel this with any graphics related software.

    Anyways, other than that it seems fine. Of course on Windows it boots
    in a few seconds. I used Coherent in the 80s and early 90s, still have

    Also boots very fast on Qemu, but this one has other issues. Best option currently is PCem.

    the disks and manuals. I seem to recall that the last version I had
    was 4.2.05, but I would have to find my disks to be sure. I also

    This is the release with the AT driver bug, that can cause corrupted filesystems, don't use this release with AT/IDE controllers/drives.

    remember a "pardon our dust" message as it installed, as it did LOTS of things during the install.

    :)

    Thanks for all the work on this, with the ready to go VMs and all. I
    know it must have been a LOT of work.

    You're welcome. Yes this is quite some work, but I also want my old systems back and the work necessary for this is little, compared to all the work done at MWC, when COHERENT was still under development.

    Udo

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  • From Udo Munk@21:1/5 to All on Thu Apr 26 15:05:29 2018
    Updated VirtualBox to 5.2.10, on OSX still the same problem, won't get fixed without
    bug report I guess.

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  • From Udo Munk@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jan 24 13:35:42 2019
    I've upgraded Virtualbox to Version 6.0.2 on OSX. With this release they have fixed the buggy IDE disk controller, no more watchdog timeouts. The system boots very fast now on OSX too.

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