Would Mini vMac then not be a better choice?

Did you unstuff the .sit file on an emulated hard drive? Not directly on a host drive. You need to do that.

Seems to run fine on my setup - 1GB RAM, ROM 1995 PM7200,7500,8500,9500 [7.5.2 SE701-9.1 512-1.5GB].rom:

The ( much appreciated ) setup guide here:
https://emaculation.com/doku.php/basilisk_ii_setup
advises
"ROMs from Quadra and Performa machines work best"

A trip to the Internet Archive might help:

https://archive.org/details/mac_rom_arc ... _8-19-2011

I tried it. I got the same error ( Win10 SheepShaver_06-05-2013 ) under 9.04. It does run under 8.5.

If you didn't, you need to unstuff the .sit file on a hard disk image within the emulator - that might fix your icons up. As emendelson has said.

How much memory have you allocated to the virtual machine? Possibly too much, and the addressing is getting confused.

I also did this one a couple of years ago:

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8987

And yes, I'm talking about an easy app which lets novice users to run configure QEMU with visual elements, rather than writing a config file manually I hope you can come up with such an app. QEMU is quite complex to get running - versions, a bit of a moving target, difficult parameters. "Easy" will...

Thanks, yes. I have various of those, but I can't get OS 9 to install with them, while your wip builds work on Win-64-bit machine.

Once again, thanks for the responses - the "support" here is most generous and kind.

OK thanks. I think I have understood. I was trying to run on a Win7-32-bit machine at work.

that-ben wrote: My config is: FX-8350 8 cores 4ghz, 32GB of RAM, Windows 7 64-bits, running qemu-system-ppc-wip.exe (the 32-bits version it seems?)

Excuse the ignorance, but where can I get that one? I only seem to have a 64-bit version.

EDIT. Sorry! I see you got it running. I just tried setting up another 9.22, and it worked this time without an install error. Last one I tried had a problem reading Big System Morsels but pressing "Start" a second time went through. The virtual drive I used had been pre-partitioned under Jaguar wit...

sidoh wrote: Actually, this can be fixed when QEMU starts. Just use the key combo Ctrl-Alt-U to set the resolution to the correct size. If it still seems blurry, press Ctrl-Alt-U and everything will be fine.

Pretty marvellous! That helps a lot. Thank you.

Thank you for the detailed info. Pondering...

I have been battling to find answers on the net here. Windows user. 1. I see from the Mac batch commands some have posted that the disk image names can be quoted like -drive file="somefile". On Windows Qemu does not seem to like this. Is there a way? 2. Some of the wip binaries and/or bios files aut...

I got it installed! :D It looks like the option to have a date command in the emu.command file is: -rtc base=2000-09-13 This would pass the date of September 13th, 2000 (the day the Public Beta was released). To start at a specific point in time, provide date in the format "2006-06-17T16:01:21" or ...

Got 9.22 up, and booting. Had to try the install twice - first time it had an error installing/reading Big System Morsels so I tried again and it worked. I am just installing the basic system - no "optional extras" in the installer. Clearly there is still something flaky in the i/o. Batch: qemu-syst...

I forgot to mention: you might want to contact archive.org about mirroring your system there. This is right up their alley, and they have LoC protection :) If you do, Jason Scott is a good person to contact. jason at textfiles dot com. He is sometimes a bit slow to reply but he is "the curator of t...

pjc1990 wrote:
Ok tried to replicate the error again to explain.

Much the same here.

Is there any reason you do not add it on the screen line, as it used to be and as still works on some older Win compiles IIRC, like:

screen win/1024/768/8

Got it!! :smile: Finally, after many searches, it all becomes simple. You can substitute another folder for your HOME folder in the shell script, and Basilisk puts the xpram in the new folder. Like so: HOME="/Users/peter/test/" More testing to be done, but if this is correct it solves a whole bunch ...

Yes -- it's a quick hack. However, it's also a bit more subtle than that -- the xpram gets written back after the BII process is spun up, not after it quits. I'm still battling with this, probably because of pure ignorance on the Unix side. Please excuse the long full paths. Shell script named MacO...

As an aside, what does "extfs shared" do - I thought extfs required a path? SheepShaver uses relative paths for files and folders inside the folder where the application itself resides. So extfs shared will use a folder "shared" there as shared folder, mounted as a volume "Unix" in MacOS. That make...

Blundering in the dark here.

Why not try:
delete the "ether" line entirely
set ignoreillegal to true
set idlewait to false

( As an aside, what does "extfs shared" do - I thought extfs required a path? )

Here is a quick-and-dirty to extract the data fork out of a MacBin file on a Windows PC. That is precisely what unar is supposed to do. Variety is the spice of life, they say. My one has a gui and works via drag&drop. It is a variant of one I originally wrote in VB6 in 2000. Use it, don't use it: u...

Here is a quick-and-dirty to extract the data fork out of a MacBin file on a Windows PC. It does not restore the original dates as I can't find info of the date format used as yet. Please let me know of any problem. http://www.retroprograms.com/temp/DeMacBin2016.zip Usual dire warnings apply about n...