Has anybody had any success applying this emulator on the SuSE distro? I only seem to get a black box and then it disappears. I have the MAC ROM and a Basilisk disk, but I still have no success.

Would someone out there be so kind to help me out with this?

If you could give us more details on specifically what you do/what doesnt work, we would be able to help you better.

Sure... I really do not know where to start...

I have installed the Basilisk II emulator, I have downloaded a startup disk called "Basilisk_Linux_disk.dsk" and I have also tried "System70_boot.dsk", and I have applied a Mac Rom. I have tried a few different roms from https://thibs.menloschool.org/~ftp/macos/ROMS/. I followed the directions from this site, http://www.kearney.net/~mhoffman/bas...torial/linux/, but I have come up with nothing. When I run the emulator from the terminal I get this as a messages:

Basilisk II V0.9 by Christian Bauer et al.
Reading ROM file...
WARNING: Cannot open /dev/fd0H1440 (No such file or directory)
WARNING: Cannot open /dev/fd1H1440 (No such file or directory)
Using /dev/dsp audio output

A Black window appears and then disappears leaving me back at the terminal.

I hope this helps...

Posting your basilisk prefs could help maybe.

Here is the .basilisk_ii_prefs file

disk /home/species/fake_mac/MacOS_7.5.3.dsk
disk /home/species/fake_mac/System70_boot.dsk
extfs /
screen win/512/384
seriala /dev/ttyS0
serialb /dev/ttyS1
rom /home/species/fake_mac/ROM
bootdrive 0
bootdriver 0
ramsize 32505856
frameskip 4
modelid 5
cpu 4
fpu true
nocdrom true
nosound false
noclipconversion false
nogui false
keycodes false
mousewheelmode 1
mousewheellines 3

One thing that I would like to clear up before we go any further; this program emulates 68k chip right? I am current using a AMD Duron 950Mhz. I am under the impression that this software emulates for other processors. I am hoping that this is the case....

Thanks...

I have solved the puzzle... I was using BasiliskII 0.9-2?? from SuSE, but for some reason it did not work. I went to http://gwenole.beauchesne.online.fr/basilisk2/ and downloaded and installed BaskisliskII 1.0-0.1 and it works perfectally, well it does look a little slow, but it is better than it was...

Thanks for your interest with this issue. If someone else comes across the same problem hopefully this will help them....

Here are a few issues that I cannot seem to correct...

First: the emulator does not seem to want to acknowledge my floppy and cdrom drive

Second: When I try and install 7.5.3 on the universal setting the emulator locks up and closes. Installation of System 7.5.3 can only be achieved with a minimal setting.

Third: I am not having any luck compiling the "sheep_net" driver.

If anyone has any information regarding these issues please help. I will value any input... Also, let me know if there is any information that is needed to help clarify the problem.

I've got the same damn "black box"-problem with Basilisk II
with SuSE 8.1.

I will try your hint ... if I'm able to compile ...

(wouldn't something like "setup.exe" be nice on X ?)

Hello SpEcIeS,

thank you very much !!!!

I just downloaded and managed to install the Basilisk II-rpm with a simple "rpm -i" Command and ... it really worked. No complaining about missing "ei" like YaST2 used to do. No black box. Just MacOS starting up.

This is amazing. Thank you so much for your help.
This forum is great. Linux is great. Hurray.

By the way: On my machine Basilisk II runs much faster when JIT is switched off.

Thanks a lot

abgdf

Hi once more,

please try

nocdrom false

and

floppy /media... (your floppy path)

in the prefs file.
As far as I remember, there was a hotkey for looking for floppies manually, something like ALT+F11,
I'm not sure, but it was for the Windows version.
Perhaps in the readme is the answer.
If you want to read out Mac-Media on a PC there's a free tool "HFVExplorer", unfortunately it is for Windows.
Perhaps this

http://www.mars.org/home/rob/proj/hfs/

could work on Linux.

Bye for now

abgdf

Hi, I have the same error in my RH9, some one know what I need to do to fix it?

Hi,

just found a nice BasiliskII-site at

http://mes.emuunlim.com/software/

Now that's amazing:

On

http://members.fortunecity.com/cpthao/macemu.html

a Kaleidoscope theme for Basilisk II is shown which gives the Mac OS 7.x desktop a kind of MacOS X (Aqua)-look and feel.
Kaleidoscope can be downloaded on the page I mentioned above, to get the AquaX III scheme requires some searching because Apple doesn't like that at all:

http://www.macobserver.com/columns/f...20011030.shtml

To a certain extend Linux can look like Aqua too.
There are themes for gtk and metacity (gnome), another one for Enlightenment.

Bye

im on Linux Redhat 8.0 and hav followed the instructions frm the site
http://www.kearney.net/~mhoffman/bas...utorial/linux/

mkdir b2
cd b2
mkdir segments
cd /home/your_username_here/b2
ls
tar xvzf BasiliskII_src_30012000.tar.gz
cd BasiliskII-0.8/src/Unix
./configure


after i run the configure the last line of the code read
error: you need X to run the program

i am logged in as root and also in KDE

I'm running debian unstable and got basiliskii1.0 running smoothly except for the netdrivers.
I installed it by downloading the source and compiling it rather than getting the debian version which is a bit outdated.
My problem is that the sheep_net won't compile. It gives tons of warnings about illegal lvalues in increment/assignment and pointer targets in assignment differ in signedness.
I'm probably lacking some dev lib for netdrivers or something but I have no idea what it can be. Any ideas?