Mac emulation on Raspberry Pi, Can't copy applications.

hd474

Hello all,

I have my raspberry Pi Retropie up and running, great fun. I now added a Macintosh emulator (Basillick ") and it works fine. The sytem starts, I can see the OS 7.5.3 desktop and play around with "Hypercard" (those were the days...). But I can not get any new apps on the emualtor to run. I know, when copying an app from my PC (OSX) to the Pi) it will appear in the Unix folder. I've also read, that I need to copy that app from the Unix folder to another drive (in my case the System image). I've also read, that the apps would loose the resource forks when copied incorrectly.
whatever I try, all apps seem to be just simple files, a double-click on them give me the following message: "the document xxx could not be opened, because the application program that created it could not be found." How can I copy these apps successfully to the disk.img or how can I create my own os 7.5.3. image for the Pi on my iMac (running El Capitan). Any advice is really appreciated. I spent all day searching for that.....

Thanks

Jens

mediamogul

@hd474 said in Mac emulation on Raspberry Pi, Can't copy applications.:

I've also read, that the apps would loose the resource forks when copied incorrectly.

This is key. Anything with a resource fork should be brought over to the Mac virtual drive in an appropriate container such as.sit or .img and extracted from there. In my experience, as long as this is done, the resource forks should be preserved. Can you elaborate on your transfer process?

edmaul69

I put the files on the unix drive. Then inside of the emulation i copy them to the desktop. Then i unpack and install it from there

mediamogul

@edmaul69

That's the workflow I use as well and I don't think I've ever had a problem.

hd474

Thanks for the answers...
I tried it again and I failed again....
I copied stuffit expander (.sit) to the unix folder, copied it to the desktop (and later on to the sytem Image) and again it's only shown as file (the icon looking like an empty sheet of paper). What's wrong....?

Jens

mediamogul

@hd474 said in Mac emulation on Raspberry Pi, Can't copy applications.:

I copied stuffit expander (.sit) to the unix folder

Stuffit Expander needs to be installed, but for the installer to survive the transfer without losing it's resource fork, you'll need find it encoded as a .hqx file. Once it's on the virtual Mac drive, you should then be able to decode it with the built-in Mac tools and install normally. I would recommend getting the Disk Copy installer also, as it'll allow you to work with disk archives directly from the emulated environment, as well as play certain games that require the CD to be mounted in order to function.

hd474

Thanks mediamogul,

I'm now searching for stuffit Expander as hqx.... Any Idea where to get that?

Thanks

Jens

hd474

ok, now I'm using a different disk.img file with stuffit expander installed. Looks pretty good. Now I just need to figure out, how to increase disk space....

Jens

hd474

Ok, I installed Sheepshaver on my Mac, created a new, bigger image and now it works! The only downside is, Basilisk crashes when I change to 256 colors. Any idea how to fix this?

Many thanks for your support so far, it helped a lot!!

Jens

mediamogul

@hd474 said in Mac emulation on Raspberry Pi, Can't copy applications.:

The only downside is, Basilisk crashes when I change to 256 colors. Any idea how to fix this?

It's a known issue. The problem can be alleviated, but not outright resolved. If you read *~~this on down to the end~~, you'll see me and a few others trying to work through it. Perhaps something there might help.

*Rather, see below.

edmaul69

@hd474 first you need to open up the file

/opt/retropie/configs/macintosh/basiliskii.cfg

and at the very top add this line:

displaycolordepth 8

Then in the emulator you need to set it to 16 colors b&w. Then you need to go into retropie setup i believe and look for dispmanx. Enable dispmanx for basilisk. Then go back into the emulator and change to 256 colors.

hd474

@edmaul69 : many thanks, I'll try tomorrow. It's so great to play all those old games.....:-)

Jens

edmaul69

@hd474 also on another note, you can use real mac cd’s on this emulator.

mediamogul

@hd474

It's so great to play all those old games.

It is indeed. Myself, I'm emulating system 8.1, which was actually the very first Mac system I ever used. What blows my mind is that I'm now able to revisit those times with a computer the size of a credit card. I've always been a digital pack rat, so I happen to have all the software that I accumulated back then, including all the discs that came with my subscription to MacAddict.

Every now and again I break out random apps and games from the period to help remind me of my original enthusiasm for the platform and computers in general. I particularly find it interesting to revisit the various internet-enabled applications, such as the different contenders of the original browser wars. Paired up with the Wayback Machine and its earliest archives, it's as close as you can get to operating an actual time machine.

hd474

Many thanks for your help!! My first Mac was a Mac II with OS 6 back in 1989. I remember I spent days and night playing games on it. My favorite game of all times is Crystal Quest (great sound), but I also played other simple games like Solarien II, Eric's Solitaire, The Tinies and many others over the years. Now I have my own time machine and can play them again!!

@mediamogul: you're so right.....!

Those were the days and I was young..... :-) Let the toasters fly again......

mediamogul

@hd474 said in Mac emulation on Raspberry Pi, Can't copy applications.:

Let the toasters fly again......

Right on my friend. It's also funny you say that. I've been messing around with an idea in my head about scripting a screensaver for my RetroPie setup that would launch 'Flying Toasters' in DOSBox after a period of inactivity and exit out with a button press or something. I love those chromed out little bread burners.

lazd

@mediamogul said in Mac emulation on Raspberry Pi, Can't copy applications.:

chromed out little bread burners

I will refer to all toasters as chromed-out bread burners henceforth. According to Google, you're the first to utter that phrase.

mediamogul

@lazd said in Mac emulation on Raspberry Pi, Can't copy applications.:

I will refer to all toasters as chromed-out bread burners henceforth.

Ha! Well, it'd make a nice name for a retrospective piece. As in; 'Chromed-out Bread Burners: The True Story of Flying Toasters'. However, knowing the internet, it'll likely be used to describe some shocking adult activity within a week.