Unfortunately, legally no. Apple does not allow the distribution of it's (free) Mac OS and the end user is supposed to be the one who clicks "Accept" to the Apple EULA when installing the Mac OS.
OSEmuTech, I think one of the main reasons I haven't installed Basilisk II so far is to avoid the grief I'm going to feel when I look at my diminished collection of old Mac software. I had lots of System 7 apps forever and in November when I moved in with my girlfriend I threw away most of them!
But I think I still have Word 5.1a. When you use Word, what do you do when you want to use the document outside the NIT? I'm a Windows user (no! stop the stones! ouch!), and my guess is that later Word for Windows don't import smoothly from 5.1 for Mac. I'd be happy to be told I'm wrong. (Just btw, I've tried Open Office and uninstalled it solely on the ground that it can't do a bulk find-and-replace for paragraph marks.)
Also, did you try installing Synchronicity with the .dmg or .img extension? That's what I did in miniMac using HFV Explorer to import it into my virtual Mac hard drive (several months ago, but I think with the same file as the one I sent you).
Thanks GeraldKo. I installed Mac OS X on my Lombard and downloaded it, whatever it is. It refuses to run on Basilisk II for Windows using 68040 with FPU and Mac OS 7.5.5.
I threw out all my 1st/2nd edition Advanced Dungeons and Dragons stuff and all my 45 singles (records) from the 80's. Doh!
I don't know about Word 5.1, but here is a doc file I created using Word 6.0.1 in Basilisk II.
And here is the same file which I transfered to the Windows file system and opened in Word 2007.
I've been trying to get BasiliskII up and running on my IT for the past couple days, and have so far been unsuccessful. I need a bit of advice on what I need to do to get this running. This is what I've done so far:
Placed the main BasiliskII binary in /home/user/
Created the basiliskii_binary folder with its two files also in /home/user/
Created a folder on my MMC2 called Mac Emu, and placed qaud650.rom in it.
Created a .basilisk_ii_prefs file also in /home/user/ with a bunch of preference lines (like outlined in one of deberdanis' posts), but made sure to point to where my .rom file is.
On the desktop I've made a 150MB HFV file with basilisk, but don't know what to do with it.
I've downloaded the 19 MacOS.bin files, but also don't know what to do with them.
I really have been wanting to get this running, but am confused as to what exactly I need to do (I've read a bunch of tutorials saying I need to create a boot disk with software that doesn't run on XP or higher, so...?).
Edit: I only have access to Windows XP and Vista computers.
Then using the Windows/Linux/MacOSX version of Basilisk II, setup the "Network Access.image" as an installed disk on the top of your 150 MB hard drive file image.
Once you verify that you can boot off the floppy disk image, go back and use HFVExplorer to move the Mac OS 7.5.3 files and the Stuffit Expander for Mac file into your 150MB hard drive file.
Cool! I'm glad you were able to put the pieces together to get it running.
We still need to create a GUI configurator for editing the .basiliskii_prefs file, and package all of it into a deb. If I didn't have a job that required almost all my time I'd have fun doing these things. Also, if we could use more recent source code, more applications and games could run on Basilisk II as well as networking.
Cool! I'm glad you were able to put the pieces together to get it running.
We still need to create a GUI configurator for editing the .basiliskii_prefs file, and package all of it into a deb. If I didn't have a job that required almost all my time I'd have fun doing these things. Also, if we could use more recent source code, more applications and games could run on Basilisk II as well as networking.
I know what you mean, my beloved Spectre Challenger chokes on the high display depth... Man, 150MB of Hard Drive space is not what it used to be, I going to jack it up to 500
(btw, I thought I should let you know that Stuffit Expander on your website here is corrupted. It took me like an hour to find another copy...)
