OpenBSD ran pretty well, although I havent used it much over the years.But now its NeXT month at rretrobattlestations, and this machine fits nicely into the system requirements for OPENSTEP on Intel.After installing OPENSTEP, I installed the developer tools, and then updated to Patch 4.This is a good walkthrough of the installation steps in a VM.
I then booted the OPENSTEP VM with an Ubuntu ISO, and used dd to copy the VM disk onto the Libretto HD (installed in a USB enclosure and passed through to the VM). I put the HD back in the Libretto, booted, and ran Configure.app to set up devices. This is cool, but obviously requires that some disk space be left unpartitioned. The Libretto BIOS lies to the operating system and reports that the disk is smaller than it actually is, to reserve this space. ![]() The Toshiba Linux Utilities site describes this in more detail, but in short: for disks 8.4GB, it starts at the 8.4GB mark. ![]() Unfortunately, the hardware is capable of thousands of colors (16bpp). I found a Linux user who said that VBE mode 295 is 800x480x16, but if I set this using the Expert dialog in Configure.app, OPENSTEP gives a VBE mode not supported message on the console at boot:(. Openstep Ation Driver This IsMaybe theres a hard-coded table of VBE modes in the driver This is a reverse-engineering project to tackle someday. I set it up in OPENSTEP as a SoundBlaster 8 but its only working slightly (I get some noises and clicks when a sound is played). This needs more work, but should be fixable without needing extra drivers.
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