Basilisk II PSP Port (Mac Emulator)

[Farcicalname]

thank u, where have i to install in teh filestistme exactely? i placed on the desktop but didn't work

[watoto]

ok,so what possiblilities does this emu offer exactly?what mac apps can you use withit?games?music apps(when they implement audio of course)

[PSPCRACKER]

where do i get roms?

[Tomppa]

Please, do read the whole topic before posting. Now can I put normal .dsk files in to the directory? Do they have to be somehow Mac-formatted? And does anyone know a good site for games for.. this.. thing..

[pkmusicmaker]

Anyone else notice the extreme slow speed of the pointer?

[kennyk]

http://macintroid.tripod.com/macintroid/id6.html
I found some proggies, but they need to be extracted with the stuffit expander.

[lockethevaliant]

I personally dont like Macs...

no one asked for your opinion.

[elroy]

Yeah - the pointer is pretty slow, but given that this is the first release it's awesome.

I know most of you guys would prefer a windows derivative, but OS 7 (or even better, 8) is a great OS for something like this. Not so much for gaming, but we have plenty of other options there.. however, this will be great once there's some onscreen keyboard action and network support. Hell, it'll even run an early version of Netscape or Internet Explorer, not to mention email clients, word processors and the likes of ICQ.

At this point it wont run OS 8, but that's because of the preferences that the developer has set, I can install OS 8 under Basilisk on my PC (Mac actually), but when I put the drive on the memory stick PSP Basilisk wont load it... which is really disappointing, hopefully that will be sorted with a later release though.

Here's a guide for getting Basilisk running on your (windows) PC. It even has links to the free version of OS 7.5.3 and the 7.5.5 update that apple gave away.

http://www.oldos.org/howtos/mac68kemu.php

Anyway, I really hope the development of this goes further, not because I'm a Mac user, but because this is a nice snappy emulation of a fully developed operating system - we don't need another emulator for games, but we do need access to stuff like email and a reasonable browser.

You'll see what I'm getting at when you install your own version of 7.5.5 (if you have a large memory stick set the drive to 200 meg) - also go to the control panel and use the Extensions Manager to disable all the extensions and control panels (except for Desktop Patterens and Mouse - probably others, but at this point they are the only two that I have running).

~ elroy
http://www.pspmine.com

[Amiga]

ive got ballistix for the pc with mac os 8.1 with tons of games on it,so how do i getting it working the psp version??

[elroy]

You're going to have to drop back to 7.5.5 (or 7.6.1 if you can find it - it's not free though) and move your games across to that disk image. Then name the image SYSTEM.DSK rename your mac rom to (oddly enough) mac.rom and drop them both into the BasiliskIIPSP folder on your PSP - that should pretty much have you up and going, although there's still a matter of sorting out which extensions are causing the crash at start up.. it's probably only one or two, but it's a matter of finding which ones.

~ elroy
http://www.pspmine.com