The Design and Implementation of laffer1

I ordered an iBook G4 thursday night. I'm going to sell my iMac as soon as I get it.

Here are the specs on my new computer:
G4 800 mhz
128mb ram (i'm going to ugrade this)
40 gig hdd
cdrom drive (i have a firewire burner)
1 firewire 400, 2 usb 2.0
12.1 inch lcd
Mac OS X.3 Panther
Quicken 2004
Tony Hawk Pro skater 4
World Book 2003
AppleWorks

It will be nice to have a portable super computer. I want to get an airport extreme card and some more ram for it. Someday i'll get an external DVD for it.

Here is the specs on my old computer for sale:

iMac DV 400
G3 400mhz
512 mb Crucial PC133 ram.
100mhz system bus
Seagate 80 gig hdd (i upgraded this less than 2 months ago)
8mb ATI RAGE 128 PRO Video
2 firewire 400, 2 usb 1.1
Original Keyboard and Mouse (Apple Pro)
Harmon Kardon Speakers built-in
24x CD-ROM built in (note to upgrade this, you would need a laptop drive i think Its like half height)
Mac OS 9.0.4 came with the system, but i can provide 10.1, 10.2, or 10.3. THe original system restore disks and all the original software will come with the system.

It shipped with:
Bugdom, quicken, appleworks, and a few other things.

The system has a built in microphone that works with the apple voice recognition so you can control the computer and play chess in 10.3 with voice rec. (IBM ViaVoice is needed to use it with Word)

It is possible to emulate a 68K Mac on almost any platform now including windows, linux, freebsd and Mac OS X. Last night I finally got two emulators working on my Mac. One is black and white. It supports through system 7, but I'm running 6.08 on it. I actually got Leisure Suit Larry 1 to run on it. LSL was originally written for the Mac. It is the FIRST version of the game. Sound works too! Its something to see lefty's in grayscale with the LSL theme playing. Caryn and I played it for a bit last night.

There is also another emulator that will run a Quadra rom. I got that to boot system 7.5.5 in color without sound. The OSX native port doesn't work right, but i hacked the source code for the windows/unix/linux build to link with apple's X11 port. I got it to run fine except sound. I even got the math co to work. I still need to get networking, sound, and modem access to work. Its successfully emulation the 68030 chip with math co and 8mb ram. The only problem with that one is that X is running in high color so games that check for 256 color won't run! I'll figure out something. That emulator is called Basilisk 2. To get it to run in 10.3, you must run configure as a sparc... then delete the references to architecture in the final make file. finally, change references to gcc and g++ to gcc2 and g++2. It will build.

The other thing that got me is you must specify the path to the ROM image explicitly for it to work right.

I just wrote a review of STP: Thank you the CD/DVD set on FG. Its a kewl album and the DVD rocks.

I'm compiling the latest stable today. I've had problems with PERL on 4.9 quite a bit. Hopefully this will help. The box has been up for quite a while though.

1:53PM up 21 days, 20:24, 1 user, load averages: 1.00, 1.02, 1.00