Author Archives: Graham Lee

In describing the Apple/UKUUG tech briefing on the Intel transition, MacWorld describe the secondary speaker as “Oxford University Unix expert Graham Lee”. Let’s hope no-one finds out until I’ve managed to start the motor….

“To configure your network card, please download our drivers from this website” That’s a bit like the experience at the moment, getting the NE2K driver for NeXTSTEP onto a Parallels-running installation.  Never fear, for I have created NE2k driver floppy … Continue reading →

Just turn off VT-x extensions for the host CPU in the VM’s configuration (you’ll find this switch in Options -> VM Flags -> Emulation Flags).  Now the system boots fully, in any of the VESA modes that I’ve tried :-)

Thanks to Christian Brunschen and the other kind folks at UK-nextstep-users, I’ve got quite a bit further with my OPENSTEP installation. Christian pointed me to a NE-2000 driver which works without issue on the Parallels-installed OPENSTEP system. Applying Apple’s patches … Continue reading →

I’ve been asked a few times about the NSMailDelivery class by a few people, probably either through a mailing list post I made, or iSendMail. Well, let’s look through iSendMail to see what happens. Firstly, the iSendMail target includes Message.framework, … Continue reading →

So, here’s the full system: Networking is the biggest current issue, and replacing the default VGA display with something better would be useful, too. But it works :-) Oh, and images of the driver disks are available from Apple.

We’re in! The WindowServer has no graphics glitches that I can see, and it’s time to configure the devices. Graphics: default VGA. Play it safe :-). We may be able to do something more fancy, but I’d rather check with … Continue reading →

And now, the reboot: it’s been sat there for a while now… :-/

And now the console is up: a few graphics gremlins but the ATAPI CD-ROM driver is doing its business.

Wooo! New blog. For the first few posts, this is going to be about my attempts to get OpenStep 4.2 running under parallels VM for Mac. So far, I’ve set up the VM and am wading through the release notes … Continue reading →