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    Macintosh (Basilisk II) 8-bit Color

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    • edmaul69E
      edmaul69 @mediamogul
      last edited by edmaul69

      @mediamogul Do you know if doom is an 8 bit or 16 bit game? I will definitely try this workaround you posted here. I might have some questions on how you did it, but i have to wait until 8.1 finishes installing.

      Well i found my issue on windows, i was using basilisk v1 and switched to v2 and it worked!

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      • mediamogulM
        mediamogul Global Moderator @edmaul69
        last edited by

        @edmaul69

        Nice.

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        • edmaul69E
          edmaul69 @mediamogul
          last edited by edmaul69

          @mediamogul so i put that info in the runcommand-onstart.sh in the /opt/retropie/configs/all/ like this:

          # the line below is needed to use the joystick selection by name method
          bash "/opt/retropie/supplementary/joystick-selection/js-onstart.sh" "$@"
          
          if [ "$1" = "macintosh" ]
          fbset -depth 8
          fi
          

          and then i made a runcommand-onend.sh and made it executable with this:

          if [ "$1" = "macintosh" ]
          fbset -depth 16
          fi
          

          and it still crashes

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          • mediamogulM
            mediamogul Global Moderator @edmaul69
            last edited by mediamogul

            @edmaul69

            Does it actually crash, or does the screen go black and stay that way? Also, BuZz corrected me that the color depth should be restored to 32 on exit, rather than 16. I'll change it above also.

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            • edmaul69E
              edmaul69 @mediamogul
              last edited by edmaul69

              @mediamogul it actually crashes. Then i have to restart the pi. Does that with and without the code

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              • mediamogulM
                mediamogul Global Moderator @edmaul69
                last edited by

                @edmaul69

                There must be something wrong with the install. That code only sets the framebuffer color depth. Even without it, there shouldn't be a crash, just a black screen.

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                • edmaul69E
                  edmaul69 @mediamogul
                  last edited by

                  @mediamogul i will try another virtual hard drive i made.

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                  • edmaul69E
                    edmaul69 @mediamogul
                    last edited by

                    @mediamogul so i did a fresh install of 8.1 (no update this time) uninstalled and reinstalled basilisk. No luck. Crashes everytime i switch to 256 colors. Even if i go directly into the monitor settings on os 8.1. But hey! If it means anything i managed to get the whole pi stuck in 640x480 256 so i could keep going back into os8.1 without rebooting. Lol

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                    • mediamogulM
                      mediamogul Global Moderator @edmaul69
                      last edited by

                      @edmaul69

                      At this point, the only difference between our two setups is the amount of allotted RAM. Is it possible that's the issue?

                      RetroPie v4.5 • RPi3 Model B • 5.1V 2.5A PSU • 16GB SanDisk microSD • 512GB External Drive

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                      • edmaul69E
                        edmaul69 @mediamogul
                        last edited by

                        @mediamogul nope i just tried that. A possible fyi with 132 megs of ram after i changed my colors to millions (32bit) after restarting it would load os8.1 but the desktop icons never came up and my cursor was stuck on the watch not allowing me to do anything. Once i switched it to 256megs of ram (268435456) it booted right up.

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                        • edmaul69E
                          edmaul69 @mediamogul
                          last edited by

                          @mediamogul also can you post the contents of your emulators file? Also are you just using a dummy start.txt file or did you modify it?

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                          • mediamogulM
                            mediamogul Global Moderator @edmaul69
                            last edited by mediamogul

                            @edmaul69

                            emulators.cfg:

                            basilisk = "/opt/retropie/emulators/basilisk/bin/BasiliskII --rom /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/macintosh/mac.rom --disk /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/macintosh/disk.img --extfs /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/macintosh --config /opt/retropie/configs/macintosh/basiliskii.cfg"
                            default="basilisk"
                            
                            

                            start.txt is just the standard dummy.

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                            • edmaul69E
                              edmaul69 @mediamogul
                              last edited by

                              @mediamogul yup. Just the standard info.

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                              • edmaul69E
                                edmaul69 @mediamogul
                                last edited by

                                @mediamogul so in your roms folder do you have anything besides your system folder, your rom and your img? Not sure if there was anything else you added there that it needed. Of course im sure you dont know of any else you had installed (as possibly mentioned by @Meneer-Jansen )

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                                • mediamogulM
                                  mediamogul Global Moderator @edmaul69
                                  last edited by

                                  @edmaul69

                                  Nothing else has been added. Will Basilisk launch for you without changing the color depth?

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                                  • BuZzB
                                    BuZz administrators
                                    last edited by

                                    Check your dispmanx settings for that emulator.

                                    To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                                    • edmaul69E
                                      edmaul69 @BuZz
                                      last edited by

                                      @BuZz when i turn dispmanx on just now all i get is a black screen. Cannot exit blindly either

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                                      • edmaul69E
                                        edmaul69 @BuZz
                                        last edited by

                                        @BuZz i also havent updated linux kernel since either 4.0 or 4.01 because i use the northwest controller fix and was too lazy to do that again if that matters any.

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                                        • BuZzB
                                          BuZz administrators @edmaul69
                                          last edited by

                                          @edmaul69 it might help - at least to match your set-up against @mediamogul's

                                          To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                                          • edmaul69E
                                            edmaul69 @BuZz
                                            last edited by

                                            @BuZz i will do it then.

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