[OpenBIOS] [PATCH] add copyright message to root node at startup

[BALATON Zoltan]

On Sat, 6 Feb 2016, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> On 05/02/16 18:35, Alyssa Milburn wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 07:31:16PM +0100, BALATON Zoltan wrote:
>>> On Fri, 5 Feb 2016, Alyssa Milburn wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 09:49:37AM -0500, Programmingkid wrote:
>>>>>> The Beige G3 doesn't have a copyright string in OF, so this seems silly (if
>>>>>> we eventually add some hack to boot via OF anyway, then we could always add
>>>>>> it then).
>>>>>
>>>>> Are you sure the Beige G3 doesn't have a copyright string?
>>>>
>>>> Well, I did 'dev /' and '.properties' and it doesn't list one. I'm not too
>>>> surprised, since boot-device is the Toolbox ROM, so there was no code which
>>>> would need to check for one.
>>>
>>> Just to confirm, you've done this on an actual Beige G3 hardware?
>>
>> It's irrelevant now, and now I'm sorry for having mentioned it at all..! But
>> yes, I pulled my Beige G3 machine out to check the escc-legacy properties a
>> few days ago and haven't packed it away yet, so I thought I'd quickly look at
>> this too.
>
> The MacOS 8 page in wikipedia has a support matrix which indicates that
> a special version of the OS was required.

Only for 8.0 version according to that matrix (presumably due to missing 
drivers in that version for stuff we don't emulate anyway, such as video 
or sound) but from 8.1 it should support Beige G3. For PoweMac G4 (mac99) 
8.6 special version is needed or MacOS 9.0, but we were talking about G3 
above.

Regards,
BALATON Zoltan