BasilliskII on Ubuntu 12.04

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pmoyanos
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BasilliskII on Ubuntu 12.04

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I compile the lastest version of BasillistII under Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64 bits and it seems works but I can't start the gui to select bios, floppy disk and a HD image I had from an old Windows version and I didn't find a manual to make the configuration files with the correct parameters.
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Re: BasilliskII on Ubuntu 12.04

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You may have to edit the preference file by hand.

Here's how to do it:
1. open a nautilus window in your home folder.
2. go to the view menu and make sure show hidden files is checked.
3. look for a file called .basilisk_ii_prefs and open it in gedit.
4. type in the example below and modify paths to your disk images and rom.
5. save and run.

Don't forget there are more options and you should look for them. Also, delete the "#" character and the note after it.

Example file:
disk /home/username/startup.dsk #this specify your disk image
screen win/800/600 #this specify your monitor
rom /home/username/macos.rom #this specify where your rom is
ramsize 24576 #specify 24 megabytes of ram
cpu 2 #specify cpu model
modelid 5 #specify macintosh model
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Re: BasilliskII on Ubuntu 12.04

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Also, instead of the last line, make sure your ROM is named "MacOS ROM" and is located in the same folder as the binary. Doing this should get you to the point where you can run BII and fiddle with settings etc (if the settings window works currently; haven't tried in Linux recently).
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