E-Maculation

I've been trying to get BasiliskII running on the latest Raspberry Pi Raspian (kernel v5.10) on my Pi 3B+. Frankly, I don't know what I'm doing, and I'm tired of screwing around with it. Would any kind souls who have already compiled BasiliskII for the Raspberry Pi 3B+ be nice enough to upload it?

Thanks in advance,
Tom

The good news is there is a binary download of BasiliskII for the Raspberry Pi in RetroPie. Just download and install RetroPie on an microSD card - instructions are provided at https://retropie.org.uk/download/. Once RetroPie is up and running on your Raspberry, you'll need to visit the configuration menu within RetroPie and download and install Basilisk - it's an optional core. You'll also need a Mac ROM, etc.

The installation and configuration process to run Basilisk is somewhat complicated. However there is a Youtube video detailing the entire process. Just Google 'retrobits basilisk on raspberry pi' for the Youtube video.

From RetroPie's docs on Macintosh emulation "Since the disk setup GUI is not included in RetroPie's version of Basilisk, you must install Basilisk on your PC to create a larger image and copy your disk.img file to it. Similar instructions can be found at viewtopic.php?f=6&t=8068"

'Somewhat complicated' is an understatement. I've been working on this awhile. I'll let you know if I'm successful.

I found out you CAN download large, empty HFS disk image from https://www.macintoshrepository.org/192 ... -30gb-hfs-, so you don't need to run the Cider program mentioned in the video on a Windows machine.

This moving of a disk image should be unneeded -- you just need to create a file (any file) of the size you want to use, add it to the list of images, and let the Finder format it for you when it loads. I usually do so with dd, but you can use a copy of an existing file of the size you want, or just cat /dev/null to a file until you've got the size you want.

Ok, BasiliskII is up and running. After I renamed mac.ROM to mac.rom the Mac booted up and I was able to install System7.5.3 and StuffIt Expander easily and it’s mostly behaving. It boots up in 3 seconds on my RPi 2 - very happy with that.

However I was unable to change the resolution or number of colors thru the Monitors control panel. It’s locked at 640 x 480@67 Hz and millions of colors. Trying to change the number colors instantly crashes Basilisk back to emulationstation, with no runcommand.log error file.

Any idea’s? Most 68k games ran at 8-bit (256) colors.

Tom2112 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 03, 2021 3:43 am I've been trying to get BasiliskII running on the latest Raspberry Pi Raspian (kernel v5.10) on my Pi 3B+. Frankly, I don't know what I'm doing, and I'm tired of screwing around with it. Would any kind souls who have already compiled BasiliskII for the Raspberry Pi 3B+ be nice enough to upload it?

Thanks in advance,
Tom

Check my github for auto install on a RPi!

https://github.com/ekbann/rpi-basilisk2-sdl2-nox.git

2bitcollector wrote: ↑Mon Apr 19, 2021 10:16 pm Ok, BasiliskII is up and running. After I renamed mac.ROM to mac.rom the Mac booted up and I was able to install System7.5.3 and StuffIt Expander easily and it’s mostly behaving. It boots up in 3 seconds on my RPi 2 - very happy with that.

However I was unable to change the resolution or number of colors thru the Monitors control panel. It’s locked at 640 x 480@67 Hz and millions of colors. Trying to change the number colors instantly crashes Basilisk back to emulationstation, with no runcommand.log error file.

Any idea’s? Most 68k games ran at 8-bit (256) colors.

Edit .basilisk_ii_prefs

screen win/640/480
displaycolordepth 8