Mac Emulator Basilisk II

Has anyone had any experience with Basilsik 2 on new NG machines?

I just can't get Basilisk 2 to boot MacOs 7.5 or MacOs 8.0. I have tried with ISO files and the Rom was selected for the respective OS version 7.x “Mac IIsi” or for MacOs 8.x “Quadra 700/900 PB140170”. I tried to mount the whole thing as a
boot disk, without success. I selected “diskimages.device” Unit 0 as the CD device and checked CDBoot.


If I have done something wrong or there is a better way, please let me know.

Not sure what you consider to be new NG machines. Probably A1222.

However It works here on X1000, on "X5020" (or so I remember, I don't have the machine here to test it right now) and on Sam440-flex.

The version on os4depot with the timestamp 2020.

@Tuvok

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I tried it on my X5000 and no matter what I do it does not boot MacOs 7.5 or 8.x as an ISO file. I know this is not very helpful, but maybe someone can describe the exact steps on how to do it?

@Maijestro

Do you get the disk image, if you start it with out the boot media?

basilisk ii does not come with roms, so perhaps you need, the rom?
(some emulators over write the rom file, it might be corrupt.)

Basilisk II creats an extra file, this file you can delete, some times it gets corrupted.

If basilisk II stops while loading a module, you can skip the module loading by pressing some magic key combo.

Basilisk II does not emulate hardware, instead it’s the routines in the ROM that gets patched, so maybe some module is incompatible.

I believe cd boot maybe requires using diskimage.device, basilisk II was not compiled with name of your device driver for the A1222 in the list.

@LiveForIt

ahhhh thanks it was a Rom problem with "Quadra 650" it works for Mac Os8.x. However, the Option Gfx mode Window compoition only gives me a black window. With Gfx mode Window it seems to work fine.

@Maijestro

"the Option Gfx mode Window compoition only gives me a black window."

what type workbench screenmode are you using?

MacOS 7.6.x is one that works best for me.

I did get MacOS 8.0 cd booting, but if I remeber correct I can't install it.

@Maijestro

I had a bit of a play around a few months back. The version currently on OS4 Depot is unusable on my X5000 - I can't select files with the gadgets and the device names are hardcoded so I couldn't select the CD drive (I have a real copy of MacOS 8 which I bought from someone many years ago). Thankfully I still had an older version and was able to get that running, albeit with a hardfile I downloaded from somewhere. Couldn't get TCP/IP working though.

@LiveForIt

The trick was that I had to select the option "System Write Pixel Arry" in the Graphics Render mode so that "Window composition" also works.

However, Basilisik 2 crashes every time I quit. If you want I can provide you with a GR. There seem to be problems with the graphics.library. Tested with 16/32bit screens. Are you still working on Basilisk 2?

Which output solution should I choose for the emulation of MacOs ? Somewhere I read that it runs a bit faster in 16 bit mode.

Otherwise Basilisk 2 is really fun, I will now try to install MacOs8.1 on a virtual HD and try out a few games.

Hi all,

I've had Basilisk booting for a long time off a MacOS 7.6.1 system hard
disk file I used to use with Shapashifter. I'd imagine there are examples
of the installed images floating around the innerwebs.

For the sake of performance and saving the source images & Amiga drives,
I've long run a script that copies the MacOS system image to RAM: before
running Basilisk (Mac/Basilisk crashes can kill your image file(s)).

I saw a comment I didn't understand about not being able to specify
volumes... I've got the System (in RAM:) plus App and Data volumes
specified on the "Disk" tab in Basilisk and they all seem to appear fine.

Unfortunately, I've never gotten "shared directory" access to work without
a quick visit to the Grim Reaper.

AFAIK, no version of Baslisk has ever engaged the ethernet support that
Shapeshifter had. In Shapeshifter I used to run the "VLink" virtual
ethernet drivers pair to get flawless net access. While Olaf tells me
VLink should work out of the box with Roadshow, Basilish does not seem to
use it.

Without file or net access to the outside world, there's only so far you
can go with Basilisk. I really wish the development had gotten it to
maturity. Any chances?

Thanks,

PJS

@pjs

>unning Basilisk (Mac/Basilisk crashes can kill your image file(s)).

Running "disk aid" tool fixes your disk..
you should find it on Macintosh Garden, or system7today

the corruption is not something i can't do anything about.
it's importent to shoutdown macos from the menu,
before closing Basilisk II. (Thats a fature of MacOS, that you should never pull the power plugg.)

Shared volume should work, I have to ram: incase I get a crash.
if that does not work for you, you can create a iso file, and mount it as a cd.

"ethernet support"

It seems to me the CPU emulation it easting too many CPU cycles, causing the network emulation code to be too slow. Shapeshifter does have problem because it does emulate CPU, Shapeshifter only emulates the graphics, disk and so on.
I also think something Is different about sana2 in roadshow.

@Maijestro

If you have a bug report or feature request, you can post it here.

https://github.com/khval/BasiliskII-1.0/issues

@pjsQuote:

Perhaps you mean me?

I can't get Basilisk II v 1.0 to select a hardfile or CD iso. When I select one, it appears in the UI as 0 bytes.



The same files work OK in v 0.9

@daveyw

can be interesing to see, what snoopy says, when you try to select a file.

(the config file can be edited with a text editor)