MacX On Apple's A/UX (QEMU)
Well, now that I have a working A/UX installation, I decided to give the MacX X11-Server a try. Using MacX, I came to a realization, MacX is largely crap. In fact, when I tried the other X-Servers for 68k Mac's, I discovered that they aren't really that good. Maybe I'm just jinxed. But I had unsatisfactory results with MacX and MachTen on the Mac (in QEMU). While I was able to run core X11 applications without issue, anything that used later toolkits just refused to run. xpdf refused to run, along with IBM's OpenDX as well.
The applications tested were Cygwin ports that were running on Mobaxterm. Half the time, RXVT and XTERM had issues connecting to A/UX. It was like A/UX detected the exported commands but refused them constantly. This was even with permission granted by xhost. It was a real crapshoot on whether the exported X11 terminal would load on MacX, A/UX in fullscreen mode, or on my QEMU system running System 7.1.1 with Machten. Regardless, compatibility between them was largely the same, which isn't saying much. I wasn't that impressed with the X11 capabilities of MacX or the others, especially compared to something like Cygwin or Exceed's Hummingbird. I guess that X11 on 68k Mac's just isn't that good.
The QEMU command to launch the A/UX session is:
qemu-system-m68k.exe ^
-m 128 ^
-M q800 ^
-display sdl ^
-serial stdio ^
-bios Quadra800.rom ^
-g 800x600x8 ^
-nic user,id=mynet0,hostfwd=tcp:127.0.0.1:6001-:6000 ^
-drive file=pram-aux.img,format=raw,if=mtd ^
-device scsi-hd,scsi-id=1,drive=hd0 ^
-drive file=AUX3.img,media=disk,format=raw,if=none,id=hd0