Iâve been slowly rebuilding my computing life on Linux since about December.
The latest thing Iâve gotten working is #BasiliskII for Classic MacOS emulation. Runs like a champ!
Iâm on CachyOS, and installed the git version of Basilisk using the package manager. The only tricky part was recreating /dev/dsp for sound output, until I found a helpful post pointing me towards osspd. Another install and systemd service and Basilisk has sound as well!
BasiliskII Macintosh 68k Emulator Ported to ESP32-P4 / M5Stack Tab5
https://github.com/amcchord/M5Tab-Macintosh
#HackerNews #BasiliskII #ESP32 #M5Stack #Emulator #Macintosh #Technology #RetroGaming
More good #Newton news, I can back up to a (virtual) MacOS machine, and #BasiliskII already mounts the host filesystem into itself, so this is way easier import and export using #virtualBox and Windows 3.11
Wonder what the last web browser for this OS was....
Talvez minha barra seja alta demais, mas para quem continua até hoje colecionando software retrÎ e polindo instalaçÔes do #DOSBox e do #BasiliskII, o abismo é profundo.
O desktop é um lixo cada vez pior, incluindo os desktops da Apple e da Microsoft, que continuam piorando. O sistema atual da Apple beira o ofensivo diante do refinamento que levou décadas, inclusive deixando milhÔes reféns de um regime de multitarefa cooperativa que tardou em ser aniquilado e ainda estava firme na primeira metade dos anos 2000.
A Web parece ter sido o ĂĄcido que faltava para corroer o pouco de sanidade que havia no desktop.
NĂŁo sĂł voltamos Ă salada da despadronização de fazer inveja ao MS-DOS e ao Amiga, mas tambĂ©m destruĂmos as soluçÔes nativas que poderiam oferecer algum alento.
Eis o contexto que me faz querer colocar mais um compromisso numa vida suficientemente difĂcil para escrever um shell e poder usar qualquer ambiente mĂnimo, com baixa interferĂȘncia do window manager e dos adereços desavergonhados que andam escrevendo por aĂ, inclusive com patrocĂnio que nĂŁo parece ser acompanhado por dirigismo de qualidade.
Eu acho que alguns desenvolvedores nĂŁo usam o prĂłprio software. NĂŁo Ă© possĂvel.
Can someone help me troubleshoot #BasiliskII running on #Debian12?
A friend of mine set up a #MacOS7 environment for me to use on my Ubuntu computer a few years ago, and it still works fine, but when I try to open the same environment on my Debian computer Basilisk II seems to just quit.
No idea how to get started troubleshooting this.
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Youtube â Bastelprojekt: Mac-Emulator mit Raspberry Pi und Retro-GehĂ€use
FĂŒr viele Apple-Fans gehört die Nostalgie am ersten Mac untrennbar dazu. Doch Originalhardware zu nutzen ist oft umstĂ€ndlich, kostspielig und riskant. Der Betrieb
https://www.apfeltalk.de/magazin/news/youtube-bastelprojekt-mac-emulator-mit-raspberry-pi-und-retro-gehaeuse/
#News #Tellerrand #3DDrucker #ADBTastatur #BasiliskII #DIYProjekt #MacEmulator #MacintoshPi #RaspberryPi #RetroGehuse #SheepShaver #SnazzyLabs
Has anyone had luck getting #MacVenture games to run on Linux *outside* of the #BasiliskII Mac Classic emulator?
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đ„ïžđ "Heroic" Doug Brown regales us with his legendary tale of slaying the dread Black Screen bug in Basilisk II, a triumph only relevant to those living in 2013. đ Meanwhile, the rest of us are busy, you know, using modern software. đ #LivingInThePast #NotAllHeroesWearCapes
https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2025/05/how-i-fixed-the-infamous-basilisk-ii-windows-black-screen-bug-in-2013/ #HeroicTales #BlackScreenBug #BasiliskII #SoftwareDevelopment #TechHistory #HackerNews #ngated
How I fixed the infamous Basilisk II Windows "Black Screen" bug in 2013
#HackerNews #BasiliskII #Bug #Fix #Windows #BlackScreen #TechHistory
It is 100% a port/socket binding condition in Basilisk II. I cross-strapped the OS7 and OS8 instances on both devices to use alternating UDP ports 6066 and 6067. Now both instances on both machines can connect to the other with AppleTalk.
Another caveat:
While I can run multiple instances of Basilisk II on my MacBook Air or Mac Mini computers, only the first-launched instance can use AppleTalk on the specific UDP tunnel port. The other instance must try to claim that port for a socket and seeing it is already in use, the host OS just ignores the request.
I was able to get an instance of System 7 running in Basilisk 2 on both my Macbook Air and Mac Mini to connect to each other using AppleTalk!
1) Basilisk 2 preferences must have udptunnel set to true
and udpport set to the same port on all Basilisk 2 instances.
2) The Control Panel Sharing Setup must have File Sharing configured and started.
3) Guest user should have Allow guests to connect checked.
Thanks @oevl, you inspired me with your post last night.
Wrote about how I enhanced my Macintosh 512Ke with USB4VC, BlueSCSI, PicoRC, RGB2HDMI, FloppyEMU and Basilisk II to do modern Internet things like browse Gopher.
https://www.ecliptik.com/Enhancing-my-Macintosh-512Ke/
#retrocomputing #macintosh #vintagemacintosh #bluescsi #floppyemu #macintoshplus #gopher #basiliskii
Basilisk II seems to be heavily-CPU based, which I guess makes sense for an emulation system. I guess I was thinking it would use more memory, but that begs the question "for what?â
Interesting to see the RPi Zero 2 drop about 15 degrees Celsius within minutes of the emulator being turned off.
I started thinking about the vintage web and web rings while looking through some old apps and then trying to get a browser to run under Mac OS 7.5.5 in Basilisk II just to verify that my old website works with older browsers.
(Spoiler Alert!) Itâs kinda broken. I switched from inline attributes for styling to using inline CSS, so some pages had backgrounds and no gaudy blue outlines, and some didnât. Then I got sucked into installing a period appropriate QuickTime. Pro started in 3.0 and the key I purchased apparently doesnât work on it. đ Had to try a couple of keys listed elsewhere, but itâs nice being able to watch the videos I have on my website again.
Well, here I am adding bgcolor and border attributes to HTML tags like a My First Webpage coder. đ„°
#VintageWeb #BasiliskII #MacOS7 #NetscapeNavigator #QuickTime #HTML4 #CSS2 (probably)
Simple overclocking of the Raspberry Pi Zero W, even just a little bit, seems to have a profound effect on Basilisk II. The PowerFrax application can render a 300x300 fractal in a few minutes rather than almost 2 hours.
Overclock settings in /boot/config.txt:
arm_freq=1085
gpu_freq=530
over_voltage=2
core_freq=515
sdram_freq=533
over_voltage_sdram=1
It's possible I could overclock a bit more...
