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What is Basilisk II for Windows — 68K emulator w/ floppy support?
Basilisk II is a Windows program that emulates 68K Macintosh and is used for color 68K emulation, since Mini vMac remains the best option for B&W 68K emulation and its more realistic than Mini vMac. It is very accurate and functional, supporting floppy disk drives out of the box, color, sound, network and even host to guest (Windows to Mac OS) file sharing via the MY COMPUTER tab > Enable external file system option in the setup program. You can also change the speed emulation to make it slower or faster if the application you want to run is unusable with your current hardware processing speed.
IMPORTANT: YOU NEED TO INSTALL GTK+ BEFORE USING BASILISK II
To configure Basilisk II, run the BasiliskIIGUI.exe program. Make sure the paths are all correct, notably in the MEMORY tab > Rom file path, you should see the Mac OS ROM file. Also in the DISK tab > Installed disks. You should see the «100MB — Mac OS 7.5.3 — 68k only.dsk» file. If it’s not right, then make sure you click browse and navigate to select the appropriate files as mentioned. If you see errors not related to the ROM or DISK file, then consider executing Basilisk II in Windows 7 compatibility mode.
See also: Installing and usaging Basilisk II on Windows tutorial by Fluf
The Mac OS 7.5.3 Basilisk II bundle comes with a 100MB disk image, half filled with a few popular applications from the 90’s:
- Mac OS 7.5.3 US English (system)
- QuickTime 3.0.2 (multimedia)
- AfterDark 2.0x (screen saver)
- Pyro 4.1 (screen saver)
- UnderWear 2.0.1 (screen saver)
- Crystal Crazy 1.0.6 (game)
- MacWrite II 1.1v2 (text editor)
- ShrinkWrap 3.5.1 (disk image mounter)
- StuffIt Expander 5.5 (compression utility)
The Mac OS 8.1 Basilisk II bundle comes with a 200MB disk image, three quarter filled with a few popular applications from the 90’s:
- Mac OS 8.1 US English (system) / last 68K version, supports HFS+ (extended)
- QuickTime 4.0.3 (multimedia) / last 68K version
- AfterDark 2.0x (screen saver)
- Pyro 4.1 (screen saver)
- UnderWear 2.0.1 (screen saver)
- Crystal Crazy 1.0.6 (game)
- MacWrite II 1.1v2 (text editor)
- StuffIt Expander 5.5 (compression utility)
- ShrinkWrap 3.5.1 (disk image mounter)
- DiskCopy 6.3.3 (disk image mounter)
- Virtual CD/DVD-ROM Utility (disk image mounter)
- ResEdit 2.1.3 (swiss knife Mac utility)
Download Basilisk II for Windows — 68K emulator w/ floppy support
Architecture
Intel x86-64
Compatibility notes
Architecture: x86 (Windows)
Basilisk II should run on any version of Windows NT (2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10…)
Keyboard Notes
With the default BasiliskII keycodes file, arrow keys as well as a few others do NOT work. Instead they may print unexpected characters. keycodes.txt uploaded to this page enables arrow keys and has been tested under Windows 10 with a standard 104 key keyboard.
Fullscreen/Monitors Notes
To go fullscreen under the 2015-02-26 version, press simultaneously [CTRL+ENTER] and note that it can dynamically change the color bit depth (B&W, 256 colors mode, thousands of colors mode) like a normal computer. To go fullscreen under the 1.4.2 version, press simultaneously [ALT+ENTER] and take note that this is LOCKED to a single color bit depth, so if you launch BII with 256 colors mode, then you will NOT be able to change the number of colors (e.g.: B&W) while the virtual machine is running, you’ll have to close it, change the prefs file and relaunch BII.
Furthermore, weird glitches or a even a totally black screen will show if the resolution is unsupported by your system. I found that 800×600 is the lowest resolution at which the fullscreen mode works reliably. Also, colors won’t be OK, weird lines and red/blue separation might occur if the color bit depth is set to anything else than 256 colors (at least on my system) so check those things if any of these things happen to you.
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NOTE: Read the guide when updating from a build from before 22-09-2020.
https://www.emaculation.com/doku.php/basilisk_ii_setup
Most recent build:
BasiliskII for Windows (03-12-2022)
https://surfdrive.surf.nl/files/index.p … 3/download
Fixes:
-Selecting an OpenVPN tap device in the GUI and running tap based networking.
BasiliskII for Windows (12-07-2022)
https://surfdrive.surf.nl/files/index.p … w/download
If you use a non-English keyboard, use this keycodes file: https://ronaldpr.home.xs4all.nl/keycode … y_2022.zip
Fixes:
-Now also plays startup sound upon reboot
BasiliskII for Windows (26-01-2022)
https://surfdrive.surf.nl/files/index.p … 8/download
Fixes:
-Prevents Windows key press to open Windows start menu, see option Reserve Windows Key in the Keyboard/Mouse tab in the GUI.
BasiliskII for Windows (02-09-2021)
https://surfdrive.surf.nl/files/index.p … i/download
Fixes: cdrom entry reset at reboot.
BasiliskII for Windows (29-05-2021)
https://surfdrive.surf.nl/files/index.p … t/download
Built from commit ea3832423c6820a8891e998e73ed9fe0faa268e1
Added functionality:
-Selectable Render driver on the Graphics/Sound tab of the GUI: Software, OpenGL, Direct3D, giving access to hardware acceleration. If selection doesn’t work SDL falls back to software renderer.
-Changed old GUI behavior of refresh rate/frameskip setting being forced to 60hz when video mode fullscreen is selected. Refresh rate setting now stays accessible and also doesn’t save to settings as 60hz.
Basilisk142 (from before the Just-In-Time compiler was integrated):
https://surfdrive.surf.nl/files/index.p … b/download
The guide to that specific windows version is available here: http://www.emaculation.com/doku.php/basilisk_142_setup
Downloads below are no longer available:
BasiliskII for Windows (16-05-2021)
Built from commit 420dc1d5044c9be4cd921bd13298cdc2cde055fe
Fixes:
-A possible issue with the startup.wav not playing at the correct speed.
BasiliskII for Windows (17-03-2021)
Built from commit 80642150819b4bf18faf9ca25aa75209b5094d3b
Added functionality:
-An additional pref item «sound_buffer» is introduced that sets the size of the sound buffer. Size 0 uses the original size, higher numbers shorten the buffer but increase CPU load.
Manual editing of the prefs file is needed to enable this function.
BasiliskII for Windows (06-03-2021)
Built from commit 7471c357c386395ca9447fbe094ce1f1313df797
Fixes:
-Fixes full screen issue
BasiliskII for Windows (27-02-2021)
Added functionality:
-An additional pref item «title» is introduced that lets the main window have a specific title. Manual editing of the prefs file is needed to enable this function.
BasiliskII for Windows 06-02-2021:
-It is now possible to redirect a tcp/ip port from the guest to the host. Manual editing of the prefs file is needed for this.
-Will now play a sound file named «startup.wav» in the Basilisk folder at boot.
BasiliskII for Windows 23-12-2020:
-Fixes uninitialized value causing Quicktime image rendering to sometimes fail after mode changes.
-Build with msys2, contains a working GUI with the required libraries. Both booting and reading CDs in 64bit Windows are supported.
-Contains a readme explaining how the included keycodes file will map keys on a Windows keyboard to Mac modifier keys in the emulator.
BasiliskII for Windows 22-09-2020:
-Build with msys2, contains a working GUI with the required libraries. Both booting and reading CDs in 64bit Windows are supported.
-Contains a readme explaining how the included keycodes file will map keys on a Windows keyboard to Mac modifier keys in the emulator.
Some features added to the MacOS version of SheepShaver might also work in the Basilisk II Windows version. See here: https://www.emaculation.com/doku.php/sh … uilds_only
Note: If you use those features and then use the GUI, the settings will be lost…
Note: Archive of older Builds below.
BasiliskII for Windows 30-04-2020:
-Courtesy of our member emendelson. Contains a readme explaining how the included keycodes file will map keys on a Windows keyboard to Mac modifier keys in the emulator.
BasiliskII for Windows 30-09-2019:
-Contains only BasiliskII.exe to replace your current executable. Courtesy of our member emendelson. Please note the Unix drive shows up as «T», not as «This Computer».
BasiliskII for Windows 20-02-2015:
-You can now again boot from and access real CD’s in 64 bit Windows hosts, and the cdenable.sys driver is no longer needed in 32 bit hosts (but can still be used).
-BasiliskII might crash when an audio CD is in the drive at start.
-Audio CD can’t be played
-For hybrid Audio/Data CD’s only the audio part shows.
BasiliskII for Windows 06-05-2013:
-You can now switch between windowed and full screen modes by using the Ctrl+Enter key combination. All thanks go to our member vasi.
-The famous black screen bug in BasiliskII for Windows should now be crushed. Big thanks to our member dougg3.
BasiliskII for Windows, with startup sound is still available here:
Just unzip and replace your current BasiliskII. Make sure the file «boing.wav» is in the same folder!
More startup sounds can be found here (partly thanks to katoll):
https://surfdrive.surf.nl/files/index.p … c/download
BasiliskII, the BasiliskII GUI and other files needed (HFV-Explorer, SDL.dll, drivers, documentation, etc) are included is this download:
Original download from 2006 is available here:
http://www.emaculation.com/basilisk/Bas … .win32.zip
Alternative builds:
BasiliskII 0.8 with WinPCAP networking. Readme included.
https://surfdrive.surf.nl/files/index.p … D/download
Best wishes,
Cat_7
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Basilisk II A 68k Macintosh emulator Copyright (C) 1997-2008 Christian Bauer et al. License ------- Basilisk II is available under the terms of the GNU General Public License. See the file "COPYING" that is included in the distribution for details. Overview -------- Basilisk II is an Open Source 68k Macintosh emulator. That is, it enables you to run 68k MacOS software on you computer, even if you are using a different operating system. However, you still need a copy of MacOS and a Macintosh ROM image to use Basilisk II. Basilisk II has currently been ported to the following systems: - BeOS R4 (PowerPC and x86) - Unix (tested under Linux, Solaris 2.x, FreeBSD 3.x, NetBSD 1.4.x and IRIX 6.5) - AmigaOS 3.x - Windows NT 4.0 (mostly works under Windows 95/98, too) - Mac OS X 10.1 thru 10.4 Some features of Basilisk II: - Emulates either a Mac Classic (which runs MacOS 0.x thru 7.5) or a Mac II series machine (which runs MacOS 7.x, 8.0 and 8.1), depending on the ROM being used - Color video display - CD quality sound output - Floppy disk driver (only 1.44MB disks supported) - Driver for HFS partitions and hardfiles - CD-ROM driver with basic audio functions - Easy file exchange with the host OS via a "Host Directory Tree" icon on the Mac desktop - Ethernet driver - Serial drivers - SCSI Manager (old-style) emulation - Emulates extended ADB keyboard and 3-button mouse - Uses UAE 68k emulation or (under AmigaOS and NetBSD/m68k) real 68k processor The emulator is not yet complete. See the file "TODO" for a list of unimplemented stuff. Requirements and Installation ----------------------------- Please consult the file "INSTALL" for a list of system requirements and installation instructions. Configuration ------------- Basilisk II is configured via the preferences editor that appears on startup. If you have a version without preferences editor (e.g. because of missing GTK+ under Unix), you have to edit the preferences file manually. The settings are stored in a text file: BeOS: /boot/home/config/settings/BasiliskII_prefs Unix, Mac OS X: ~/.basilisk_ii_prefs AmigaOS: ENV:BasiliskII_prefs Windows: BasiliskII_prefs (in the same directory as the executable) If no preferences file is present, Basilisk II will create one with the default settings upon startup. Preferences File Format ----------------------- The preferences file is a text file editable with any text editor. Each line in this file has the format "keyword value" and describes one preferences item. For each keyword, the meaning of the "value" string may vary across platforms. The following keywords exist: disk <volume description> This item describes one MacOS volume to be mounted by Basilisk II. There can be multiple "disk" lines in the preferences file. Basilisk II can handle hardfiles (byte-per-byte images of HFS volumes in a file on the host system), HFS partitions on hard disks etc., and MacOS-partitioned disks (it can only access the first partition, though). The "volume description" is either the pathname of a hardfile or a platform-dependant description of an HFS partition or drive. If the volume description is prefixed by an asterisk ("*"), the volume is write protected for MacOS. Basilisk II can also handle some types of Mac "disk image" files directly, as long as they are uncompressed and unencoded. BeOS: To specify an HFS partition, simply specify its path (e.g. "/dev/disk/scsi/0/1/0/0_3"). If you don't specify any volumes, Basilisk II will search for and use all available HFS partitions. Unix: To specify an HFS partition, simply specify its path (e.g. "/dev/sda5"). If you want to access a MacOS-partitioned hard disk or removable volume (Jaz, Zip etc.) and your operating system doesn't understand MacOS partition tables, you can specify the block device name (e.g. "/dev/sda") to access the first HFS partition on the device. Under Linux, if you don't specify any volumes, Basilisk II will search /etc/fstab for unmounted HFS partitions and use these. AmigaOS: Partitions/drives are specified in the following format: /dev/<device name>/<unit>/<open flags>/<start block>/<size>/<block size> "start block" and "size" are given in blocks, "block size" is given in bytes. Windows: To define a logical volume (Windows NT only), specify its path (e.g. "c:"). To define a physical volume (NT and 9x), additionally give the "physical" keyword (E.g. "physical c:"). For safety reasons, volumes are mounted as read-only. This is due to the bugs in PC Exchange. If you don't specify any volume, the files *.hfv and *.dsk are searched from the current directory. Note that in this case, Basilisk II tries to boot from the first volume file found, which is random and may not be what you want. floppy <floppy drive description> This item describes one floppy drive to be used by Basilisk II. There can be multiple "floppy" lines in the preferences file. If no "floppy" line is given, Basilisk II will try to automatically detect and use installed floppy drives. The format of the "floppy drive description" is the same as that of "disk" lines. cdrom <CD-ROM drive description> This item describes one CD-ROM drive to be used by Basilisk II. There can be multiple "cdrom" lines in the preferences file. If no "cdrom" line is given, Basilisk II will try to automatically detect and use installed CD-ROM drives. The format of the "CD-ROM drive description" is the same as that of "disk" lines. extfs <direcory path> This item specifies the root directory for the "Host Directory Tree" file system (the "Unix/BeOS/Amiga/..." icon on the Finder desktop). All objects contained in that directory are accessible by Mac applications. This feature is only available when File System Manager V1.2 or later is installed on the Mac side. FSM 1.2 is built-in beginning with MacOS 7.6 and can be installed as a system extension (downloadable from Apple, look for the FSM SDK in the developer section) for earlier MacOS versions. scsi0 <SCSI target> ... scsi6 <SCSI target> These items describe the SCSI target to be used for a given Mac SCSI ID by Basilisk II. Basilisk II emulates the old SCSI Manager and allows to assign a different SCSI target (they don't even have to be on the same SCSI bus) for each SCSI ID (0..6) as seen by the MacOS. "scsi0" describes the target for ID 0, "scsi1" the target for ID 1 etc. The format of the "SCSI target" is platform specific. BeOS: The "SCSI target" has the format "<bus>/<unit>" (e.g. "0/2"). Due to a bug in BeOS, using SCSI with Basilisk II may cause the SCSI bus to hang. Use with caution. Linux: The "SCSI target" has to be the name of a device that complies to the Generic SCSI driver API. On a standard Linux installation, these devices are "/dev/sg0", "/dev/sg1" etc. Note that you must have appropriate access rights to these devices and that Generic SCSI support has to be compiled into the kernel. FreeBSD: The "SCSI target" has the format "<id>/<lun>" (e.g. "2/0"). AmigaOS: The "SCSI target" has the format "<device name>/<unit>" (e.g. "scsi.device/2"). Windows: The "SCSI target" has the format <"Vendor"> <"Model"> (e.g. scsi0 "HP" "CD-Writer+ 7100"). Note the use of quotes. screen <video mode> This item describes the type of video display to be used by default for Basilisk II. If you are using a Mac Classic ROM, the display is always 1-bit 512x342 and this item is ignored. The format of the "video mode" is platform specific. BeOS: The "video mode" is one of the following: win/<width>/<height> 8-bit color display in a window of the given size. This is the default. scr/<mode> Full-screen display in BWindowScreen. <mode> is the bit number of the video mode to use (see headers/be/interface/GraphicsDefs.h). E.g. 0 = 640x480x8, 1 = 800x600x8 etc., 10 = 640x480x24, 11 = 800x600x24 etc., 18 = 640x480x15, 19 = 800x600x15 etc. 15 bit modes are preferable to 16 bit modes (which may show false colors on PowerPC machines). When you run in full-screen mode and switch to another Workspace, Basilisk II is put in "suspend" mode (i.e. MacOS will be frozen). Unix: The "video mode" is one of the following: win/<width>/<height> Color display in an X11 window of the given size. There are several resolutions and color depths available. The set of color depths depends on the capabilities of the X11 server, the operating system, and Basilisk II compile-time options, but 1 bit and the default depth of the X11 screen should always be available. dga/<width>/<height> [if Basilisk II was configured with --enable-xf86-dga] Full-screen display using the XFree86 DGA extension. The color depth (8/15/24 bit) depends on the depth of the underlying X11 screen. "width" and "height" specify the maximum width/height to use. Saying "dga/0/0" means "complete screen". dga/<frame buffer name> [if Basilisk II was configured with --enable-fbdev-dga] Full-screen display using the frame buffer device /dev/fb. The color depth (8/15/24 bit) depends on the depth of the underlying X11 screen. The "frame buffer name" is looked up in the "fbdevices" file (whose path can be specified with the "fbdevicefile" prefs item) to determine certain characteristics of the device (doing a "ls -l /dev/fb" should tell you what your frame buffer name is). AmigaOS: The "video mode" is one of the following: win/<width>/<height> Black-and-white display in a window of the given size on the Workbench screen. This is the default and will also be used when one of the other options (PIP/screen) fails to open. pip/<width>/<height> 15-bit truecolor display in a Picasso96 PIP. This requires Picasso96 as well as a PIP-capable graphics card (e.g. Picasso IV). scr/<hexadecimal mode ID> 8/15/24-bit fullscreen display on a Picasso96/CyberGraphX screen with the given mode ID. This requires Picasso96 or CyberGraphX. For 15 and 24 bit, the frame buffer format must be QuickDraw-compatible (big-endian, xRGB 1:5:5:5 or xRGB 8:8:8:8). The screen size will be the default size for that mode ID. Windows: The "video mode" is one of the following: win/<width>/<height>/<bits per pixel> A refreshed screen mode that uses Windows GDI calls to write to the screen. You may have other windows on top of Basilisk II. dx/<width>/<height>/<bits per pixel> A refreshed DirectX mode (minimum version 5.0). There are ways to install DirectX 5 on NT 4. Some new display adapters work fine even with DirectX 3. fb/<width>/<height>/<bits per pixel> A non-refreshed video mode that works only on NT. It accesses the linear frame buffer directly (best performance of all three modes). Use the hotkey Control-Shift-F12 to switch between Windows and Mac displays. Fast task switch (Alt-Tab) and Explorer start menu (Control-Esc) are disabled, Control-Alt-Del is enabled. <width> and <height> can be either zeroes (uses current screen values), or something else. "win" mode can use almost anything, for other modes there must be a corresponding DirectX mode. <bits> is ignored for mode "win" (uses current screen values). If the mode is "win" and the dimensions are different than the desktop dimensions, windowed mode is used. The window can be moved around by dragging with the right mouse button. This mode remembers window positions separately for different dimensions. The supported values are 8,15,16,24,32. It is possible that some of them do not work for you. In particular, it may be that only one of the two modes, 15 and 16, is suitable for your card. You need to find out the best solution by experimenting. Basilisk II checks what display mode you are currently running and uses that mode. The screen is always full screen. When you switch to another application via Alt-Tab, Basilisk II is put in "snooze" mode (i.e. MacOS is frozen). Mac OS X: The "video mode" is one of the following: win/<width>/<height> win/<width>/<height>/<bits per pixel> A refreshed (and buffered) Quartz window. full/<width>/<height> full/<width>/<height>/<bits per pixel> A CGDirectDisplay full screen mode. <bits> can currently be 8, 16 or 32. If not specified, the default is 32. There is currently no way to switch between the Mac OS X and Basilisk II display, but Apple-Option-Escape instantly and safely terminates the Basilisk II program. seriala <serial port description> This item describes the serial port to be used as Port A (Modem Port) by Basilisk II. If no "seriala" line is given, Basilisk II will try to automatically detect and use installed serial ports. The "serial port description" is a platform-dependant description of a serial port. BeOS: Either specify the name of a serial port (e.g. "serial1") or one of "parallel1", "parallel2" or "parallel3". See below for more information about parallel ports. Unix: Specify the device name of a serial port (e.g. "/dev/ttyS0") or a parallel "lp" port (e.g. "/dev/lp1"; this only works under Linux and FreeBSD). See below for more information about parallel ports. AmigaOS: You have to specify the name of the serial device and the device unit as "<device name>/<unit>" (e.g. "serial.device/0"). If the given device is not compatible to serial.device, Basilisk II will crash. If the device name starts with an asterisk (e.g. "*parallel.device/0"), the device is treated as a parallel.device compatible device. See below for more information about parallel ports. Windows: Specify "COM1" or "COM2" for com port 1 or 2, respectively. Parallel ports: If you select a parallel port it will look like a serial port to MacOS but Basilisk II will only allow data output and ignore baud rate settings etc. You should be able to get some printers to work with this method (provided that you have the right printer driver, like "Power Print" (see www.gdt.com)). serialb <serial port description> This item describes the serial port to be used as Port B (Printer Port) by Basilisk II. If no "serialb" line is given, Basilisk II will try to automatically detect and use installed serial ports. The format of the "serial port description" is the same as that of the "seriala" option. ether <ethernet card description> This item describes the Ethernet card to be used for Ethernet networking by Basilisk II. If no "ether" line is given, Ethernet networking is disabled (although the Ethernet driver of Basilisk II will behave like a "dummy" Ethernet card in this case). If you are using a Mac Classic ROM, Ethernet is not available and this setting is ignored. The "ethernet card description" is a platform-dependant description of an ethernet card. General note: To use TCP/IP from MacOS, you should assign a different IP address to the MacOS (entered into the MacOS TCP/IP (or MacTCP) control panel). Otherwise there will be confusion about which operating system will handle incoming packets. BeOS: It doesn't matter what you give as "ethernet card description", Basilisk II will always use the first Ethernet card it finds as long an an "ether" line exists (e.g. say "ether yes"). Using Ethernet requires the "sheep_net" Net Server add-on to be installed. The first time you start Basilisk II with Ethernet enabled you will be asked whether it's OK to make the necessary changes to your BeOS network configuration to enable sheep_net. Linux: The "ethernet card description" is the name of an Ethernet interface. There are four approaches to networking with Basilisk II: 1. Direct access to an Ethernet card via the "sheep_net" kernel module. The "ethernet card description" must be the name of a real Ethernet card, e.g. "eth0". The sheep_net module is included in the Basilisk II source distribution in the directory "src/Unix/Linux/NetDriver". You have to compile and install the module yourself: $ su [enter root password] # make # make dev [this will create a /dev/sheep_net device node; you should give appropriate access rights to the user(s) running Basilisk II] # insmod sheep_net.o If you copy the sheep_net.o module to a place where it can be found by the kernel module loader ("/lib/modules/<version>/kernel/drivers/net" for 2.4 kernels) and add the line alias char-major-10-198 sheep_net to "/etc/modules.conf", the kernel should be able to load the module automatically when Basilisk II is started. The sheep_net module will allow you to run all networking protocols under MacOS (TCP/IP, AppleTalk, IPX etc.) but there is no connection between Linux networking and MacOS networking. MacOS will only be able to talk to other machines on the Ethernet, but not to other networks that your Linux box routes (e.g. a second Ethernet or a PPP connection to the Internet). 2. Putting Basilisk II on a virtual Ethernet via the "ethertap" device. In this case, the "ethernet card description" must be the name of an ethertap interface, e.g. "tap0". It also requires that you configure your kernel to enable routing and ethertap support: under "Networking options", enable "Kernel/User netlink socket" and "Netlink device emulation", under "Network device support", activate "Ethertap network tap". You also have to modify drivers/net/ethertap.c a bit before compiling the new kernel: - insert "#define CONFIG_ETHERTAP_MC 1" near the top (after the #include lines) - comment out the line "dev->flags|=IFF_NOARP;" in ethertap_probe() Next, see /usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking/ethertap.txt for information on how to set up /dev/tap* device nodes and activate the ethertap interface. Under MacOS, select an IP address that is on the virtual network and set the default gateway to the IP address of the ethertap interface. This approach will let you access all networks that your Linux box has access to (especially, if your Linux box has a dial-up Internet connection and is configured for IP masquerading, you can access the Internet from MacOS). The drawback is that you can only use network protocols that Linux can route, so you have to install and configure netatalk if you want to use AppleTalk. Here is an example /etc/atalk/atalkd.conf for a LAN: eth0 -seed -phase 2 -net 1 -addr 1.47 -zone "Ethernet" tap0 -seed -phase 2 -net 2 -addr 2.47 -zone "Basilisknet" (the "47" is an arbitrary node number). This will set up a zone "Ethernet" (net 1) for the Ethernet and a zone "Basilisknet" (net 2) for the internal network connection of the ethertap interface. MacOS should automatically recognize the nets and zones upon startup. If you are in an existing AppleTalk network, you should contact your network administrator about the nets and zones you can use (instead of the ones given in the example above). 3. Access the network through a "tuntap" interface. The "ethernet card description" must be set to "tun". TUN/TAP provides packet reception and transmission for user space programs. It can be viewed as a simple Point-to-Point or Ethernet device, which instead of receiving packets from a physical media, receives them from user space program and instead of sending packets via physical media writes them to the user space program. Prerequesties: - Make sure the "tun" kernel module is loaded # modprobe tun - Make sure IP Fordwarding is enabled on your system # echo 1 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward A virtual network configuration script is required and the default is /usr/local/BasiliskII/tunconfig unless you specify a different file with the "etherconfig" item. This script requires you that "sudo" is properly configured so that "/sbin/ifconfig" and "/sbin/iptables" can be executed as root. Otherwise, you can still write a helper script which invokes your favorite program to enhance a user priviledges. e.g. in a KDE environment, kdesu can be used as follows: #!/bin/sh exec /usr/bin/kdesu -c /path/to/tunconfig $1 $2 4. Access the network through the user mode network stack. (the code and this documentation come from QEMU) By setting the "ethernet card description" to "slirp", Basilisk II uses a completely user mode network stack (you don't need root priviledges to use the virtual network). The virtual network configuration is the following: Basilisk II <------> Firewall/DHCP server <-----> Internet (10.0.2.x) | (10.0.2.2) | ----> DNS server (10.0.2.3) | ----> SMB server (10.0.2.4) Basilisk II behaves as if it was behind a firewall which blocks all incoming connections. You can use a DHCP client to automatically configure the network in Basilisk II. In order to check that the user mode network is working, you can ping the address 10.0.2.2 and verify that you got an address in the range 10.0.2.x from the Basilisk II virtual DHCP server. Note that ping is not supported reliably to the internet as it would require root priviledges. It means you can only ping the local router (10.0.2.2). When using the built-in TFTP server, the router is also the TFTP server. FreeBSD: The "ethertap" method described above also works under FreeBSD, but since no-one has found the time to write a section for this manual, you're on your own here... AmigaOS: You have to specify the name of the SANA-II Ethernet device and the device unit as "<device name>/<unit>" (e.g. "ariadne.device/0"). If the given device is not a SANA-II device, Basilisk II will crash. If the device is not an Ethernet device, Basilisk II will display a warning message and disable Ethernet networking. Mac OS X: The "slirp" method described above now seems to work. See the next item for an alternative way to do networking with Basilisk II. udptunnel <"true" or "false"> Setting this to "true" enables a special network mode in which all network packets sent by MacOS are tunnelled over UDP using the host operating system's native TCP/IP stack. This can only be used to connect computers running Basilisk II (and not, for example, for connecting to the Internet or an AppleShare server running on a real Mac), but it is probably the easiest way to set up a network between two instances of Basilisk II because the UDP tunnelling doesn't require any special kernel modules or network add-ons. It relies on IP broadcasting, however, so its range is limited. It should be fine though for doing a little file sharing or playing Spectre. udpport <IP port number> This item specifies the IP port number to use for the "UDP Tunnel" mode. The default is 6066. redir <port redirection description> This item defines a port to be forwarded from the host to the client. The format is "[protocol]:hostport:[clientaddress]:clientport", where protocol is "udp" or "tcp" (default), hostport is the port on your computer to forward to the Mac, clientaddress is the IP address of the Mac in the virtual network (defaults to 10.0.2.15), and clientport is the port on the Mac to be exposed. For example, if you have a web server in MacOS running on port 80, you can expose it as port 8000 with the line below: redir tcp:8000:10.0.2.15:80 rom <ROM file path> This item specifies the file name of the Mac ROM file to be used by Basilisk II. If no "rom" line is given, the ROM file has to be named "ROM" and put in the same directory as the Basilisk II executable. bootdrive <drive number> Specify MacOS drive number of boot volume. "0" (the default) means "boot from first bootable volume". bootdriver <driver number> Specify MacOS driver number of boot volume. "0" (the default) means "boot from first bootable volume". Use "-62" to boot from CD-ROM. ramsize <bytes> Allocate "bytes" bytes of RAM for MacOS system and application memory. The value given will be rounded down to the nearest multiple of 1MB. If you are using a Mac Classic ROM, the maximum available value is 4MB and higher values will be ignored. The default is 8MB. frameskip <frames to skip> For refreshed graphics modes (usually window modes), this specifies how many frames to skip after drawing one frame. Higher values make the video display more responsive but require more processing power. The default is "8". Under Unix/X11, a value of "0" selects a "dynamic" update mode that cuts the display into rectangles and updates each rectangle individually, depending on display changes. modelid <MacOS model ID> Specifies the Macintosh model ID that Basilisk II should report to MacOS. The default is "5" which corresponds to a Mac IIci. If you want to run MacOS 8, you have to set this to "14" (Quadra 900). Other values are not officially supported and may result in crashes. MacOS versions earlier than 7.5 may only run with the Model ID set to "5". If you are using a Mac Classic ROM, the model is always "Mac Classic" and this setting is ignored. nosound <"true" or "false"> Set this to "true" to disable all sound output. This is useful if the sound takes too much CPU time on your machine or to get rid of warning messages if Basilisk II can't use your audio hardware. nocdrom <"true" or "false"> Set this to "true" to disable Basilisk's built-in CD-ROM driver. The only reason to do this is if you want to use a third-party CD-ROM driver that uses the SCSI Manager. The default is "false". nogui <"true" or "false"> Set this to "true" to disable the GUI preferences editor and GUI error alerts. All errors will then be reported to stdout. The default is "false". keyboardtype <keyboard-id> Specifies the keyboard type that BasiliskII should report to the MacOS. The default is "5" which is a "Apple Extended Keyboard II (ISO)", but many other numbers are understood by most versions of the MacOS (e.g. 11 is a "Macintosh Plus Keyboard with keypad", 13 is a "Apple PowerBook Keyboard (ISO)" ) For additional information, consult the source. System-specific configuration ----------------------------- Unix: keycodes <"true" or "false"> keycodefile <keycodes file path> By default, the X11 event handler in Basilisk II uses KeySyms to translate keyboard event to Mac keycodes. While this method is very compatible and ought to work with all X servers, it only works well if your keyboard has a US layout. If you set "keycodes" to "true", Basilisk II will use raw keycodes instead of KeySyms. The keycode depends only on the physical location of a key on the keyboard and not on the selected keymap. Unfortunately it depends on the X server being used and possibly also on the type of keyboard attached. So Basilisk II needs a table to translate X keycodes to Mac keycodes. This table is read by default from /usr/local/share/BasiliskII/keycodes unless you specify a different file with the "keycodefile" item. A sample keycode file is included with Basilisk II. fbdevicefile <fbdevices file path> This option specifies the file that contains frame buffer device specifications for the fbdev-DGA video mode (when Basilisk II was configured with --enable-fbdev-dga). The default location of the file is /usr/local/share/BasiliskII/fbdevices. A sample file is included with Basilisk II. mousewheelmode <mode> If you have a mouse with a wheel, this option specifies whether moving the wheel will be reported to the MacOS as "Page up/down" (mode 0) or "Cursor up/down" (mode 1) keys. mousewheellines <number of lines> If "mousewheelmode" is set to mode 1 (Cursor up/down), this option sets the number of key events sent to MacOS for each wheel movement (the number of lines to scroll). ignoresegv <"true" or "false"> Set this to "true" to ignore illegal memory accesses. The default is "false". This feature is only implemented on the following platforms: Linux/x86, Linux/ppc, Darwin/ppc. dsp <device name> mixer <device name> Under Linux and FreeBSD, this specifies the devices to be used for sound output and volume control, respectively. The defaults are "/dev/dsp" and "/dev/mixer". AmigaOS: sound <sound output description> This item specifies what method to use for sound output. The only choice is currently AHI, but you can specify the AHI mode ID to be used. The "sound output description" looks like this: ahi/<hexadecimal mode ID> scsimemtype <type> This item controls the type of memory to use for SCSI buffers. Possible values are: 0 Chip memory 1 24-bit DMA capable memory 2 Any memory Be warned that many SCSI host adapters will not work with the "Any memory" setting. Basilisk II has no way of knowing which memory type is supported by the host adapter and setting an unsupported type will result in data corruption. Windows: noscsi <"true" or "false"> Completely disables SCSI Manager support when set to "true". Note that currently all SCSI operations are executed synchronously, even if Mac application has requested asynchronous operation. What this means is that the control is not returned to the application until the command is completely finished. Normally this is not an issue, but when a CDR/CDRW is closed or erased the burner program typically wants to wait in some progress dialog the result may be that the application reports a time-out error, but the operation completes all right anyway. nofloppyboot <"true" or "false"> Set this to "true" to disable booting from a floppy. replacescsi <"Vendor1"> <"Model1"> <"Vendor2"> <"Model2"> This command tricks the Mac to believe that you have a SCSI device Model2 from vendor Vendor2, although your real hardware is Model1 from Vendor1. This is very useful since many devices have almost identical ATAPI and SCSI versions of their hardware, and MacOS applications usually support the SCSI version only. The example below is typical: replacescsi "HP" "CD-Writer+ 7100" "PHILIPS" "CDD3600" Note the use of quotes. rightmouse <0/1> Defines what the right mouse button is used for. The default values of 0 means that it is used to move windowed mode BasiliskII screen. Value 1 sends a combination Control and mouse click to the MacOS. This may be useful under OS versions 8 and above. keyboardfile <path> Defines the path of the customized keyboard code file. pollmedia <"true" or "false"> If true (default), tries to automatically detect new media. Applies to all "floppy", "cd" or "disk" removable media except 1.44 MB floppies. May cause modest slow down. If unchecked, use Ctrl-Shift-F11 to manually mount new media. If you have auto-insert notification (AIN) enabled, you may turn this option off. Note that some CD related software require AIN, and some other need it to be turned off. Consult the documentation of your CD software to learn which one is optimal for you. framesleepticks <milliseconds> The amount of time between video frames. showfps <true/false> If true, the real frame rate is displayed. stickymenu <true/false> If true, the main menu bar is kept open even after the mouse button is released, under all OS versions (OS 8 has this feature already). There are extensions to do the same thing, but it's faster to handle this in native code. Default is "true". ntdx5hack <"true" or "false"> You may need this on NT if your display adapter driver has a bug in DirectX palette support. Black and white are reversed. It fixes the palette issue by using GDI palette instead of D3D palette. Default is false. JIT-specific configuration -------------------------- A Just-In-Time (JIT) translation engine is available for x86. This is aimed at translating 68040 instructions to native equivalent code sequences, thus providing faster emulation speeds. jit <"true" or "false"> Set this to "true" to enable the JIT compiler. Default value is "true" if the JIT compiler was compiled in. Besides, this is effective only if Basilisk II is configured to emulate a 68040. jitfpu <"true" or "false"> Set this to "true" to enable translation of floating-point (FPU) instructions. Default is "true". jitcachesize <size> Allocate "size" kilobytes of RAM for the translation cache. The value given will be rounded down to the nearest multiple of a page size. Minimal value is "2048" (2MB). Default value is "8192" (8MB). jitlazyflush <"true" or "false"> Set this to "true" to enable lazy invalidation of the translation cache. This is always recommended as it usually makes the system more responsive and faster, especially while running MacOS 8.X. Default value is "true". jitdebug <"true" or "false"> Set this to "true" to enable the JIT debugger. This requires a build of Basilisk II with the cxmon debugger. Default is "false". Usage ----- Quitting: The right way to quit Basilisk II is to select the "Shut Down" menu item from the Finder's "Special" menu. You should not kill it from the shell unless it hangs. Under Unix, pressing "Esc" while holding the Ctrl key will also quit Basilisk II (in case you are using it in DGA mode and it crashed). Under Windows, try Alt-F4 (or Control-Alt-Del to log off and back on again if it crashes really badly). Suspending: The Unix version of Basilisk II can be suspended while running in DGA mode by pressing "Tab" while holding the Ctrl key. Pressing "Space" in the "suspended" window will resume the emulation. Under BeOS, switching to a different Workspace when BasiliskII is in full-screen mode will also suspend the emulation. Keyboard: On PC-style keyboards, "Alt" is the Mac "Command" key, while the "Windows" key is the Mac "Option" key. Mouse: Under Unix, pressing Ctrl-F5 while the Basilisk II window is active will grab the mouse. This is needed for compatibility with some MacOS programs, especially games such as flight simulators. Press Ctrl-F5 again to return to normal mouse operation. Floppy: Basilisk II can only handle 1.44MB MFM floppies. Depending on your platform, floppy disk changes might not be detected automatically. Under Unix, press Ctrl-F1 to mount a floppy. Under BeOS, select the appropriate "Mount" menu item or press Ctrl-F1 to mount a floppy. Under Windows, press Ctrl-Shift-F11. HFS partitions: Having HFS partitions mounted for read-write access under Basilisk II while they are also mounted on the host OS will most likely result in volume corruption and data loss. Unmount your HFS volumes before starting Basilisk II. ZIP drives: Iomega ZIP disks can be mounted either with the "disk" prefs item or (on platforms that support the SCSI Manager emulation of Basilisk II) by installing the IomegaWare on the Mac side. Do not use both ways simultaneously! Hardfiles: In addition to plain images of HFS volumes, Basilisk II can also handle some types of Mac "disk image" files, as long as they are uncompressed and unencoded. Mac Classic emulation: Sound output and Ethernet are not supported if you are using a Mac Classic ROM. Also, the video display is fixed to 512x342 in monochrome. The AmigaOS and BeOS/PPC versions of Basilisk II cannot do Mac Classic emulation. Video resolution switching: Run-time switching of video resolutions requires the Display Manager. This is included in MacOS versions 7.6 and above, and available as a system extension for earlier MacOS versions as a free download from ftp.apple.com (look for "Display Software 2.x"). Click on "Options..." in the "Monitors" control panel to select the resolution. Sound output: Sound output under Basilisk II requires Sound Manager 3.0 or later. This is included in MacOS versions 7.5 and above, and available as a system extension for earlier MacOS versions as a free download from ftp.apple.com. Sample rate, bit resolution and mono/stereo can be selected in the Sound control panel (section "Sound Out"). Ethernet: Basilisk II supports all Ethernet protocols. Running a protocol under Basilisk II that already runs within the host operating system on the same network card (e.g. running MacTCP under Basilisk II on a BeOS machine) may or may not work (generally, it should work, but some specific things like "ping" may not). If you have problems with FTP, try setting the FTP client to passive mode. LocalTalk: LocalTalk is not supported by Basilisk II. There is no way of getting LocalTalk to work with the serial drivers of Basilisk II. Any attempt to activate LocalTalk will either result in a crash or revert to Ethernet. Serial: You can use the serial ports in Basilisk II to connect to the Internet with a modem and the "MacPPP" or "Open Transport/PPP" software. Technical Documentation ----------------------- Please see the included file "TECH" for a technical overview of the emulator. Acknowledgements ---------------- Contributions by (in alphabetical order): - Orlando Bassotto <future@powercube.mediabit.net>: FreeBSD support - Gwenolé Beauchesne <gb@dial.oleane.com>: SPARC assembly optimizations, lots of work on the Unix video code, fixes and improvements to the JIT compiler - Marc Chabanas <Marc.Chabanas@france.sun.com>: Solaris sound support - Marc Hellwig <Marc.Hellwig@uni-mainz.de>: audio output, BeOS video code and networking - Bill Huey <billh@mag.ucsd.edu>: 15/16 bit DGA and 15/16/32 bit X11 window support - Brian J. Johnson <bjohnson@sgi.com>: IRIX support - Jürgen Lachmann <juergen_lachmann@t-online.de>: AmigaOS CyberGraphX support - Samuel Lander <blair_sp@hotmail.com>: tile-based window refresh code - David Lawrence <davidl@jlab.org>: incremental window refresh code - Bernie Meyer <bmeyer@csse.monash.edu.au>: original UAE-JIT code - Nigel Pearson <nigel@ind.tansu.com.au>: Mac OS X port - Lauri Pesonen <lpesonen@nic.fi>: Windows NT port - Bernd Schmidt <crux@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>: UAE 68k emulation - Michael Z. Sliczniak <msliczniak@comcast.net>: Mach memory fault recovery - and others... Special thanks to: - Bernd Schmidt for letting me use his UAE 68k emulation - Daniel Bobbert who printed dozens of pages from the THINK Reference for me years ago - All ShapeShifter and SheepShaver users and beta testers - Apple Computer Inc., who made writing a Macintosh emulator a child's play Bug reports ----------- You found a bug? Well, use the source, fix it and send the fix to <Christian.Bauer@uni-mainz.de> for inclusion in the next release of Basilisk II. If you don't have a fix, you should post a bug report using the Source Forge bug tracker, supplying as much information as possible (operating system and versions of Basilisk II and MacOS being used, relevant hardware information, the exact steps to reproduce the bug, etc.): http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=2123&atid=102123 I also strongly suggest reading this before posting a bug report: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html Author ------ You can contact me at <Christian.Bauer@uni-mainz.de>, but please don't do so unless absolutely necessary. I'm maintaining Basilisk II in my spare time and am not able to provide technical support for everyone. If you have questions, consider posting them to one of the support forums mentioned below. You are encouraged to contact me personally when - you have bug fixes or small enhancements for the code - you want to port Basilisk II to another platform - you want to discuss technical issues - you intend to make major changes to the source; you might be working on something that I have already done, or I may have different ideas about the Right Way to do it There is no point in sending me questions about - ROM files and how/where to get them - versions of Basilisk II that run on operating systems other than Unix, BeOS and AmigaOS. If you are using any other operating system, there's no point in asking me how to to X or why Y doesn't work because I won't know either. Instead, you should look in the "Acknowledgements" section of this manual to find the person responsible. For example, if your question is specific to the Windows operating system, ask Lauri Pesonen. I don't have Windows and can't answer your questions and I'm too lazy to forward mail to Lauri myself. In any case, it would probably be better to post your questions to a public forum as it will get a much wider audience there. Support ------- The official Basilisk II home page is at http://www.uni-mainz.de/~bauec002/B2Main.html The Basilisk II project page on SourceForge is at http://sourceforge.net/projects/basilisk/ If you have problems, you may want to visit the Basilisk II forums: http://sourceforge.net/forum/?group_id=2123 There is also a mailing list for Basilisk II users: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/basilisk-user And another mailing list for Basilisk II developers: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/basilisk-devel Some general advice about asking technical support questions can be found at http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Keeping this in mind will greatly increase your chances of getting a useful answer. History ------- Please consult the file "ChangeLog" for the release history. Christian Bauer <Christian.Bauer@uni-mainz.de>