This is a clean preinstalled image of i486 OPENSTEP 4.2 for Mach Patch 4 with Developer Tools and a couple of bare essentails.

This VM is configured for use in VirtualBox. The disk is in .vmdk format and should load fine in other hypervisors, but you'll need to rip out the drivers if you want to boot it.

Includes:
 - Working drivers for sound, video, and network
 - Working networking (IP address is 192.168.0.144, gateway 192.168.0.1)
 - OmniWeb
 - Opener
 - Updated zoneinfo for North American timezone changes
 - DNS set to 1.1.1.1
 - GKMouseScaler configured to make cursor movement more comfortable/tolerable under VirtualBox

System name is 'betelgeuse'

Password for default account ('me') is 'password'

No root password is set

Happy hacking!

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Rhetorica, 2026-06-11

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