BasiliskII GUI app crashes at launch on macOS Catalina

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chongli
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BasiliskII GUI app crashes at launch on macOS Catalina

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I've been trying to get BasiliskII GUI app working on Catalina. If I run it from the Terminal with the command:

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./BasiliskII.app/Contents/MacOS/BasiliskII
then it works fine. When I double-click the app, on the other hand, it immediately closes without displaying any GUI. I tried getting some logs from Console.app but after looking at the source code I see you just use printf everywhere so that's not going to work. I would normally be happy with just running it from the Terminal but I can't figure out how to create hard disk images or eject/change floppies on the running system, making it difficult to do anything other than playing around in a single bootable floppy environment.
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Re: BasiliskII GUI app crashes at launch on macOS Catalina

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chongli wrote:I've been trying to get BasiliskII GUI app working on Catalina. If I run it from the Terminal with the command:

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./BasiliskII.app/Contents/MacOS/BasiliskII
then it works fine.
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That is a way to launch BasiliskII, not BasiliskII GUI.
Do you have a problem running BasiliskII or running BasiliskII GUI?
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Re: BasiliskII GUI app crashes at launch on macOS Catalina

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My problem is with running BasiliskII GUI. It quits immediately when I launch it with no indication as to what the problem may be.
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Re: BasiliskII GUI app crashes at launch on macOS Catalina

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The old BasiliskIIGUI does not run in Catalina.

Do you use the new BasiliskII GUI beta? It is not notarized, so to launch it the first time you will need to use the right-click (or control-click) method.
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