[LispM] Greetings, all! - Cold Load Stream questions

[cj miller]

Hello there, I am CJ, long-time workstation and music tech tinkerer. 
Lately I had re-discovered Brad Parker's ports of the Genera VM and have 
been checking it out on MacOS 10.6.8. It's kind of a tease because I 
feel like I almost have it working. 


I can start Genera from either the Snap3 or Snap4 vlod files, but in 
either case I can't get past the date prompt. What I have read in 
skimming through the many Symbolics manuals out there is that the system 
takes a date/time code of: mm/dd/yy hh:mm:ss. I have tried dozens of 
variations on this. Using the real date, as well as retro-dating it to 
the 1990s. I have tried using either two or four digit years. I have 
tried doing it without the time of day. According to the XL1200 manual 
one can even specify "NONE" and still boot. But everything I type gets 
me errors such as: 


"Error: Unable to set calendar clock.


TIME:SET-CALENDAR-CLOCK
       Arg 0 (TIME:NEW-TIME) :  3026437200
s-A,  <Abort>:  Exit process Initialize Genera"


While in the Terminal window I launched it from, I get the error:


"arithmeticexception; file stub/output10 line 211"






Can any of you more experienced Genera cats perhaps suggest to me where 
I might be going wrong? Or does the binary need to be re-compiled? Sorry 
if it's a silly question but I'd be grateful for any understanding with 
this.


CJ