I have a large collection of source code tarballs that cover a number of years of Basilisk II and Basilisk II JIT releases. I tried compiling around 10 of them last night, but only the one linked to in my second post compiled all the way and ran correctly on my N800. The others usually had the dreaded sigsegv error during the make phase, or when run on my N800.
One of the 2005 source tarballs would compile and even had the GUI frontend for basilisk_ii_prefs editing using GTK+ 2, but the executable gave a sigsegv error when the emulation started.
Most source does not recognize GTK+ 2 when configuring, so I tried compiling (&make install) GTK+ 1.2 and GLIB under Scratchbox to give the BasiliskII executable the GUI frontend, but GLIB would not compile.
The segfault problem when it's running is normal, as it actually puts the Mac OS in the actual address it allocates. If the Mac OS tries to access hardware directly, most parts are patched (BasiliskII doesn't emulate the hardware, it patches the Mac OS to make it think the hardware is there, and grabs the values from the driver).
And I spent an entire day hacking the other one up to make it go (it involved grabbing bits from the GP2x version).
This one seems to be working OK. I got somewhere into hildonizing the last one.
There was a discussion on the maemo mailing lists about how to get the icon to show up for some X apps, and it involved creating a .desktop file specifying the wm class.
This is awesome guys!
I couldn't call myself a 'mac fanboy', but back in the day 7.5 and 8 OS's were pleasantly fast and rarely did I ever see a bomb(crash). A lot of the office abilities were already well done and I lived next to COREL.
I'm just an informed user newb, but I had to put in my kudos to you guys for this endeavour.
Keep in mind as well, there was also a great tool for interface customizing called "Kaleidoscope" than ran clean in the OS. It allowed for a large array of modifications to the windows etc.
Seems fun, I'd like to try. I have never used a mac!
And, a-ehm, are there on the internet any dirty and immoral places where pushers pass you a copy of a mac rom without you owning the real thing? (My questions is only to know what I have *not* to visit with my browser in order to go straight to heavens after my departure). Maybe torrents?
Wouldn't quite know how to do that but I could find out.
And hey Apple totally completely utterly abandoned that OS to the dust heap of history while it still had loads of usability. I feel no hesitation to share any of the ol Mac stuff.
I would bow in homage to the geek masters here if they can make this more accessible.
Now well, some advice from veteran mac users would be greatly appreciated.
Maybe I've been impulsive, but I am likely to buy a vintage office 4.5.1 (if no-one overrides my ebay bid). Are there any other useful thing which may complement the NIT software? What did Corel do? I am an absolute noob to macs.
Now well, some advice from veteran mac users would be greatly appreciated.
Maybe I've been impulsive, but I am likely to buy a vintage office 4.5.1 (if no-one overrides my ebay bid). Are there any other useful thing which may complement the NIT software? What did Corel do? I am an absolute noob to macs.
Corel released WordPerfect 3.5e for free to Mac users a number of years ago. After about a year they decided to take it off their website for some reason. But some 3rd party sites still host the download. It's a rather nice word processor (I bought the CDs long ago - DOH!) job4031 has a link to a download site in post #17.
My neglected Macintosh Emulation Station website has a lot of 68k Mac freeware, shareware, and demos that works on Basilisk II, including games. It also has tips for using Basilisk II on Windows. I've been running a forum about Mac and PC emulators and virtual machines since 1999 as well.
