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| Getting Basilisk II to work on OSX Yosemite | |
| Posted by: bom.cabedal on 2015-07-06 04:14:11 Hi all, I'm trying to get Basilisk II to work with System 7.5.3, but sofar it has been an extremely frustrating experience. I am using a Macbook Pro retina with 8 GB of RAM and Yosemite 10.10.3 installed. When setting up Basilisk, I followed these instructions to the letter: http://emaculation.com/doku.php/basiliskii_osx_setup. However, when I hit 'start' on BasiliskIIGUI, I end up with a grey screen, sometimes with a less grey banner on top. I have re-downloaded everything and started from scratch, but it produced the same result.  If anyone can help me sort this out, I'd be eternally grateful. | |
| Posted by: Elfen on 2015-07-06 17:05:43 Looks like Basilisk's monitor resolution is off by a lot! Check the preference file(s) for color and resolutions and put in 800X600 or 640X480 at 256 or Thousands of colors. And then set the opening window for just a bit bigger. | |
| Posted by: bom.cabedal on 2015-07-09 08:16:12 Thanks Elfen, I got Basilisk to work with 7.5.3; the only thing is that it sometimes fails to recognize my virtual hard drive as its startup volume. But with some tinkering I can get that going again. | |
| Posted by: Elfen on 2015-07-09 09:36:35 Congrats! As soon as I have them up and running, I need get basilisk to work on my Mac Mini's. I notice that your boot screen is from a System 7.5 or later. What ROMs are you using? | |
| Posted by: Juror22 on 2015-07-10 21:41:20 I have it working on my Maverick laptop, with a Quadra 950 ROM, 7.5.3 128MB RAM (I put it together last night, after I saw this thread) - the only issue that I have is that it will sadmac/freeze when I restart it. If I shut it down and start it, it runs fine. Actually a lot more stable than the sheep shaver that I have on my MacPro. If I could just find my games folder... I agree with Elfen about the resolution, I didn't use their suggested resolution and started with 600x800 instead. I specified a system for "any' macintosh in the installer and removed the stuff that I didn't need. | |
| Posted by: bom.cabedal on 2015-07-16 04:30:32 Thanks, all. The next project will be to get a Lenovo T60 running with Basilisk II to create my own ... erm... Powerbook. Should work... | |
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