I was able to run Basilisk II on Maemo in 256 colors by using a different build of Basilisk II. unique311 created GS, GTK, and SDL builds using more recent source from Basilisk II JIT. It's slower, has a sticky mouse problem, and cannot be run full screen (though under KDE for Maemo, you can have it take up the whole screen probably).

I just uploaded the files here. Use the SDL build for 256 colors IIRC:

http://cid-de1b8fbb27739ebd.skydrive...y%7C_unique311

The Basilisk II (non-JIT) source code used by teh to create the Basilisk II we are using (fast, full screen, no sticky mouse) was from ~8 years ago. Since then the Basilisk II JIT code has been enhanced and allows running any 68k program on it that doesn't require a MMU, including all sorts of games and applications. I'm only a perpetual script-kiddie otherwise I'd jump on porting Basilisk II (JIT) over to Maemo keeping the hildon enhancements teh worked on.

Dumb question time, but a simple straightforward answer is more easily understood by my simple straightforward mind, and this thread does not seem to contain such an answer.

Will an existing precompiled port of Basilisk II run on a stock 770 running OS2006-49-2?

The Basilisk II ports t3h (and I) made appear to only run on OS 2008.

But the 3 builds of Basilisk II JIT uniquie311 made run on OS 2007 and 2008. I don't have a N770 to test the builds out on OS 2006, but I imagine if they ran they would be rather slow.

Okay.

Slow doesn't concern me. I used to run Executor/DOS on a 486 back in the DOS days, and that was quite a bit slower than my IIci.

There's a guy in another forum who has a lot of early Mac stuff he wants to get rid of... Reading the thread leaves me with the distinct impression he also has a lot of older programs and applications. Perhaps some of it may be helpful for this thread?

Of course, his 'garage sale' is in Vancouver (the Canuckian one, not the Washington one).

However, there are a few people here who live in this city so... .

I didn't know about ARDI's Executor until 8 years ago in 1999.

By then, Fusion PC from Microcode Solutions had already started emulating the 68040 on DOS which allowed running up to Mac OS 8.1 along with all 68k applications and games that didn't require a MMU. I was the first person to buy Fusion PC 2.0 which ran on Windows, and after winning a "Bug Bash contest" became a beta tester for the company for further patch releases up to 2.3.1 until the emulator was sold to the "evil" Emulators, Inc.

During my bench testing of Fusion PC, I would graph the various scores earned by the Macintosh emulators for Windows/Linux/DOS; Fusion PC, Basilisk II, Executor, vMac, and SoftMac, in numerous tests. I also learned the various Mac emulators' abilities, limitations, and bugs.

The alpha open source Basilisk II was initially limited to 68020 emulation, but was in rapid development by the original German developer (who had created Basilisk I/II, Frodo, SheepShaver, etc.) and the Finnish Windows developer/porter who was implementing many new features for Basilisk II for Windows. Big events were when Ethernet networking and NAT were added, and months later Basilisk II was able to emulate a 68040 instead of the 68020/30 (68030 processor emulation had been buggy) running up to Mac OS 8.1.

Basilisk II soon became everyone's favorite Mac emulator as it was stable, fast, and free ... the retail Mac emulator companies ARDI, Microcode Solutions, and Emulator, Inc.'s days were numbered (though Emulators, Inc. is still "living"). All three companies started promising future PowerMac emulators, but none of them ended up delivering*.

By 2001, Basilisk II development was taken over by a French Linux developer who implemented a x86 JIT engine for Basilisk II making it ~20x faster than all the other Mac emulators. It is now called Basilisk II JIT.

He then ported the PowerMac emulator SheepShaver for BeOS to Linux/Windows/Mac OS X, implementing G4 Classic Mac emulation (up to Mac OS 9.0.4). SheepShaver is currently popular with MacIntel users who wish to run Mac Classic OSes (pre-Mac OS X) and applications, as MacIntels can't run Mac Classic.

I might as well round this brief history off by mentioning OSS Pear PC, the first and only Mac OS X PowerMac emulator (runs up to 10.4.x) for Windows and Linux. It too uses a JIT engine for speed, but ends up running maybe 20x slower than the host PC, which can be acceptable on a high end machine. The death of the primary Pear PC developer severely crippled further development of this Mac emulator. It has not been ported to run Mac OS X for Intel on Windows or Linux, though it could have been without the loss of the main developer. (Note: PearPC runs even slower than Bochs on a NIT )

Since 1999 I've been running a forum about Mac emulation, which expanded in 2001 to cover all operating system emulation and virtual machines. Thus my nick.

Hum ... I had tried running Fusion PC and Mini vMac on DOSBox for the NITs, but haven't tried Executor. You are familiar with the NIT port of DOSBox for running 80x86 DOS, originally for a 770? If you are a fan of using Executor, running it on DOSBox might bring back fond memories (of slowness ... LOL!).

*Correction: Microcode Solutions delievered a PowerMac emulator for Amiga (iFusion) and ARDI developed a PowerMac "emulator" for Linux (iExecutor?) that could run Adobe Photoshop 5, but iDon't think iT was ever released(?).

Wow, that picture looks like an Apple Museum, worse than my closet of ancient Macs.

Does this work for the N900 by any chance? Thank you!

Hate to break it to you. But Basilisk has been ported to the iPhone/iPod touch since 1.1.2 well over two years ago. Whats really important here is that THAT implementation is slightly more useless than this one. :-D I love emulation, so this is great news to me.

It seems OSEmuTech, who started this thread hasn't been around lately... and his web pages are gone. However, the one binary I ended using was the one compiled by th3 --see this post,

http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...7&postcount=63

and his links are still active.

I tried running that binary on the N900, it doesn't launch as it wants to use libesd for sound support... a library that Fremantle no longer provides. Fortunately, Graham Cobb, who works on GPE, has put together a minimal libesd that interfaces with Fremantle's pulseaudio. It's in the extras* repositories and can be installed via With this installed, the Diablo binary of BasiliskII runs on the N900. To get going, you will have to browse thru most of the thread. OSEmuTech had put together a HOWTO but his web pages are no longer active.

--denis