BasiliskII for iOS

[gingerbeardman]

Is anybody else using this?

https://github.com/zydeco/macemu/tree/i ... II/src/iOS

note: use ios branch

It's not well advertised and I only found out about this fork & branch after filing some issues/requests for minivmac4ios.

I built the code using Xcode 11.3.1 on Mojave 10.14.6 and had to add in one missing #ifdef __IPHONE_13_4 for it to build:
https://github.com/zydeco/macemu/blob/e ... mm#L82-L85

But it's quite amazing on an iPad! Thanks to @zydeco

I made some changes to run it in chunky mode (iPad Pro 12.9" fits 512x342@4x resolution very nicely) and I also added double height mode (well, pretty much it needs to have room left for the iPad home indicator).

It supports File Sharing, so you can download an hqx/sit/bin in Safari to Files and then send it to BasiliskII using iOS Share Sheet mechanism and the file is then accessible from a drive on the emulated Mac.

Monitor resolution changing without rebooting (via System 7.5 Monitors panel or equivalent) for switching between portrait and landscape orientations.

Apple Pencil is supported as a regular touch, feels very nice to draw with.

I'd love to see:
- proper Apple Pencil StrokeGestureRecognizer support
- which would bring with it support for palm rejection (for drawing)
- support for multi touch to be able to do one finger panning whilst drawing

bug asks:
- Apple Pencil pressure support masquerading as a Wacom
- support for Split View (I can enable it but it presents some issues with menu bar touch recognition)

[gingerbeardman]

Second image showing "full resolution" of 1024x1366 portrait mode on iPad Pro 12.9"

[adespoton]

That's great! I'll have to see if I can get it to build/run on my iPad 2 -- that's currently my Mini vMac "Mac".

[gingerbeardman]

That's great! I'll have to see if I can get it to build/run on my iPad 2 -- that's currently my Mini vMac "Mac".

Please do!

I have Mini vMac on here too, but Basilisk allows so much more.

Could easily be a daily driver with safari in Slide Over for web browsing and downloading.

[adespoton]

That's great! I'll have to see if I can get it to build/run on my iPad 2 -- that's currently my Mini vMac "Mac".

Please do!

I have Mini vMac on here too, but Basilisk allows so much more.

Could easily be a daily driver with safari in Slide Over for web browsing and downloading.

Couple of questions: first, how did you get around:
error: Build input file cannot be found: '/Users/<user>/Projects/macemu4ios/BasiliskII/src/uae_cpu/cpustbl.cpp' (in target 'BasiliskII' from project 'BasiliskII')

Second, where exactly where you adding the ifdef? around the highlighted conditional?

[gingerbeardman]

I didn't get that uae error.

Did you clone the repo and are you on the iOS branch?
Just downloading the code won't work.

Regarding the ifdef, yes, around the conditional.

[adespoton]

Yeah; seems like even though I thought I was in the IOS branch, I checked out MAIN. So after adding that IFDEF, everything's great! A bit slow on the iPad 2, but works fine at 15fps. Seems like some of the later fixes from kanjitalk755's fork would improve things significantly here.

I'm also curious to see if this iOS build can be spun out to work on macOS, as the UI is pretty useful.

[gingerbeardman]

Indeed, we'll have to see what happens

[gingerbeardman]

I started a blog and am writing about this System 7 on iPad journey.

https://blog.gingerbeardman.com