They were the two items I was really unsure about. The install itself is then split in to a Mac half, and an A/UX half.įirst things first, lets fix up this machine so it’s in colour! Looking good!Īmazingly it looks like my Ethernet adapter and CD-ROM drive were detected. It will re-partition and format your drive. I just selected them all! No point mucking around. I’m guessing “Custom Install…” will give you better control of your disk partitioning, and for a larger drive it’ll make most sense to do so. I’m not sure what Easy Install does, so I went straight for the “Custom Software…” button.

If not, you will need to try a different A/UX disk image, burning the image at a slower speed, a different CD-ROM drive or all three. If all went well, it will find it and present you with various installation options. The system will boot up into a minimal 7.1 environment where it will attempt to locate the CD-media.

The CD-ROM drive hanging out of the AppleCD SC enclosureīoot the machine using your A/UX Install floppy. While the machine is booting up, insert your A/UX install CD I used the “ Macintosh Floppy Emulator” by Steve Chamberlin as the boot device and hooked up a Panasonic CR-506-B in an old Apple CD SC enclosure. Either find another or backup anything important.Įvery blue moon install media can be found on eBay, but you’re likely to have more luck in the usual places (*cough* Macintosh Garden, WinWorld *cough*).

The install media, including installation boot floppyĪs far as I can tell the installation will wipe everything off your drive.The Mac IIcx is the first machine I’ve had that I can try it out on (I have another 68K Mac, an LC 475 – but sadly it was never supported by A/UX). I’ve had a play with it before, but it’s not quite the same experience and I always seemed to have issues with the mouse emulation so it was never much fun. You can run A/UX under an emulator named Shoebill, which does a terrific job – but has some limitations (notably no sound).

What I find most fascinating about it is that it came out during a period where Apple desperately needed a new OS (see “Pink”, Copland, Star Trek, etc), but it seemed to never get any traction internally within Apple. As a result it never took off, although admittedly it was expensive and for it’s day had quite high system requirements (I’m told it shines on 16MB+ machines, but this was in a time when 4MB was the norm and 8MB luxury). A little bit like OS X is today, or certainly Blue Box/Classic was under Rhapsody/OS X. Now that my Mac IIcx is working fairly well, I decided it was time to install A/UX.Ī/UX is Apple’s Unix and it’s a bit of an oddity it can run System 7 apps out of the box.

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