Hi, I have been searching all day for a way to play the original Prince of Persia on my Mac (I have OS X). So far I have found only the DOS and Apple II versions, but I want the original Macintosh version. I just downloaded Basiliskll v 1.0 but I have no idea how to use it, but regardless I don't know where to find the Prince of Persia game to play on it.

Before I even try this emulation software, is there somewhere on the web or an independent app where I can play this game (the original Mac version) for free? And if not, where would I find the game to play on Basiliskll? I know in the past when I used video game emulators such as for SNES or Sega Genesis the games were called ROMS, but that's not the case here I don't think. Where would I find this game? And if someone could walk me through on to how to get it to work on Basiliskll, I would be the happiest guy ever :). I'm desperate and I need help, I'm getting headaches looking through google pages that don't have what I want.

Here's a quick setup guide for Basilisk II:

http://macscene.net/wiki/index.php/Basi ... etup_Guide

The members of this forum can answer any questions you might have along the way. Just post in the "Basilisk II" folder and you'll get fast answers.

Maybe this is the game you want:

http://macintoshgarden.org/games/prince-of-persia

Thanks a lot, that tutorial helped a bunch and it's completely set up now. Now I'm going to try with the games, namely Prince of Persia. Thanks for that link, that's what I have been trying to find for so long. That website is amazing!

I'm glad you got everything set up.

Please do come back here and post your results of trying different games with the emulator!

I'm actually trying to play Prince of Persia right now. I just downloaded the SIT file, but what do I do with it? Do I have to download StuffIt Expander and put it on the virtual drive on Basilisk II, and then decompress the file that way? Or do I just sound like an idiot and that's not how it's done at all?

Yes, that's what you need to do.

Here's a link to Stuffit:

http://www.emaculation.com/basilisk/stu ... der_55.bin

You will notice, however, that Stuffit is, itself, stuffed. You have to unstuff it before you can use it!

I use the Windows port of Basilisk II, which handles this situation differently. Someone will have to tell you how to do it.

Can you expand that file in OS X and then copy it over to your emulated system? I don't know...

Further thoughts:

I think you can just expand stuffit files in OS X using the newest version of Stuffit Expander.

However, if that doesn't work, use this utility:

http://minivmac.sourceforge.net/extras/binunpk.html

Mount that disk image in Basilisk II and run the program. You can use the program to expand Stuffit 5.5 that I linked above. Then you can then install stuffit and use it to expand Prince of Persia and all the Macintosh Garden games.

(you can even just use binunpk to expand Prince of Persia, although it won't work on some other games from that site)

Ok well I got the game unstuffed and it's on the virtual Mac. However, it still doesn't work. There are 5 icons in the Prince of Persia folder: 3 with a script icon that say "Persia (BW)", "Perisa (Color)", and "Persia (LC)"; the actual Prince of Persia icon; and the Readme. When I click on the Prince of Persia icon, it says:

"Prince of Persia only runs in Black and White, 4 color mode, 16 color mode, or 256 color mode." Then the only option is to click the Quit button and the game doesn't load.

I went into the System Folder, Control Panel, and clicked the Monitors icon, and changed the colors from "Millions" to "256", at which point the screen kind of turned gray with a mouse in it that didn't move. There is a note at the bottom of the Monitors windows that says "Changes take effect when Monitors is closed", but I can't close it.

Any ideas on what to do?

Not sure about that. Reboot and try again, if you haven't already. The emulator can be buggy. And as I said, I haven't used the OS X version.

If the bug persists, you should post in the Basilisk II folder of this forum with details of your setup and of the bug. Someone will be able to help!

It is persisting, but thanks for the help. I'll try to get help tomorrow when I have time. If you can bring anyone here for me too that would be great, cause I'm new.

My only suggestion in the meantime would be to try adjusting the resolution setting and visual stuff in the Basilisk II GUI before launch and then try again.

Ok, I will try it. Thanks.

There is no setting in the MacOSX BasiliskIIGUI for color depth. Which version of BasiliskII for MacOSX do you use and which System version do you run in BasiliskII?

I use version 1.0 for Mac OS X, and I run version 7.5 (I'm pretty sure) in Basilisk II.

Version 1.0 does not tell much about which version (build you are actually using. Some problems in previous builds are solved in the July 2008 build I posted in the BasiliskII forum (see sticky topic in that forum). It will work in Tiger and Leopard. You can simply replace the application in your existing setup


"pretty sure"? Don't you know which system you installed? Didn't you install the system yourself? You can find the system version in 'About this Macintosh' in the Apple menu.

I asked, because the Monitors control panel that you describe, with the the line "Changes take effect when Monitors is closed" is clearly different from the one in my 7.5.5 installation where changes in color depth take effect immediately with the control panel still open.

Edit: Ah, I now see that line. I looked at the bottom of the control panel window. The Monitors control panel works fine here.

I tried to run Prince of Persia in 7.5.5 in BasiliskII (July 2008) on my Intel Mac with Leopard. At first it crashed BasiliskII badly when I tried to run it in 256 colors while it would run fine in 256 grays. After allowing the Prince of Persia application to use much more memory (3200K instead of the default 1600K) it now runs beautifully in 256 colors. (You know how to assign more memory to an application in Finder Info?)

I don't know which build it is, but this is where I downloaded it from so that's the version (I downloaded the PowerPC one because it said the other one crashes; I run Mac OS X but it seems to run fine on it): http://macscene.net/wiki/index.php/Basilisk_II_Setup_Guide




I just checked, it's 7.5.3 Revision 2. Should I update to 7.5.5? And if so, how?

How do I do that? I don't know how.

In order to assign more memory to an application:

1) Select a program/file
2) Go up to the file menu and select 'Get Info'
3) See where it says 'memory requirements' - change the preferred size to a higher number (4000, for example), but not too high(you could also change the minimum size, which I personally recommend)

The game will probably run in 7.5.3 also. If you want to update to 7.5.5, you can use the update that is available from Apple. The multilingual version of the update can be downloaded here:
http://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Su ... .5_Update/


I changed both minimum and preferred memory requirement for the game to 3200K. Do that while the application is not running.

Change the color depth to 256 colors before you launch the game.

I tried everything and it still doesn't work. I updated to 7.5.5, I changed the preferred and minimum memory requirement on Prince of Persia, and I tried changing to 256 colors before running the game. It crashed as usual. I've come to the conclusion that it has to be my build of Basilisk II. Could one of you send me a link to the one you use that will work on Mac OS X so I can see if it will work on there?

EDIT: Now when I run Basilisk II it doesn't even work. I think it's because I set it to 256 colors and it still tries to run in that when it loads, and it doesn't work. It just sort of freezes.

You will find the link to the BasiliskII July 2008 UB build that I use in a sticky topic in BasiliskII forum, second one from the top.

However, I suspect that after a couple of crashes, the problem is on the system volume rather than related to the BasiliskII version you use.

Better start again, remove the current system volume from the list in the GUI, create a new one and install a new system and system update and applications you need. That will probably take less time and effort than trying to troubleshoot the existing system.

Tip: After having created a freshly installed system volume with everything you need on it, make a backup copy of the image file in MacOSX. When things on the system volume get corrupted again, you only need to replace the image file with a copy of the backup file to have BasiliskII running again from a fresh new system.

What is the installed control panel called? "Monitors" or "Monitors & Sound"? In 7.5.3/7.5.5 it should be "Monitors".

It's called "Monitors". But I will try all your suggestions hopefully tomorrow and post my results. I'm going through all this trouble just to play one game haha, but it will be worth it once it finally works. Prince of Persia is one of my favorite games, but only the original Mac version. I will not settle for any other version.

Ok, wow this was weird, but I downloaded the other version of Basilisk II you told me to and the second I clicked on it everything on my other virtual Mac was on it, but when I clicked on Prince of Persia it actually loaded and plays perfectly now! I'm not touching a thing now haha.

But now that it's running, I have 2 questions. Is there a way to make it full screen or at least bigger? And I'm not entirely sure and could be wrong, but it seems like the game is running a tad bit slow. It's not really that noticeable and may not even be lagging as I am paranoidly thinking it is, but it might be so is there a way to fix this?