Macintosh (Basilisk II) 8-bit Color
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@BuZz i will do it then.
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I'm going out for the night, but I do have something to add to this before I leave. I've noticed that one in several instances of launching Basilisk II with an 8-bit color depth leads to a black screen on my setup as well. Once I noticed it, I continued to cycle through launches, trying to estimate how often this happened. While admittedly not scientific, I'd say that I get a black screen about one out of ten or so launches. Could this be the outside script not launching in time on a few occasions? I'm certainly not qualified to say, but I thought it was worth noting.
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@mediamogul so a couple questions, is dispmanx supposed to be on or off? What are your runcommand options on boot? Are you using a buffer size or a specific display size?
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@edmaul69 said in Macintosh (Basilisk II) 8-bit Color:
is dispmanx supposed to be on or off?
I have mine turned on.
What are your runcommand options on boot? Are you using a buffer size or a specific display size?
Nothing was changed for any of these. Basically, after I got a working disk image on my desktop computer last May, I transferred it and the ROM, as well as the configuration file over to the Pi. It remained that way until I tried changing the color depth a few days ago.
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@mediamogul if i turn it on i cant boot in 16+ bit. I will switch to b&w and turn it on then try to switch to 256 color
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@mediamogul ok so i got it to work. To go back to 32bit do i need to turn dispmanx off again?
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@mediamogul how do i get out of full screen? Im in doom and i chose to use my mouse. And now i dont know how to get the menu bar back
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I don't remember the OS UI being directly available in any of the Doom ports, but I may be wrong. In Basilisk, alt=cmd and the windows key is option, so outside of pulling up the Doom menu itself, you might be limited to only alt+q to quit out of the game.
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@mediamogul good to know. The menu bar gives you sound options and choice to use mouse, etc.. So i cant seem to get 32 bit to work with dispmanx on so booting into os8 after having runcommand-onend say 32, if i try to go in the next time automatic black screen and i have to reboot. So i changed runcommand-onend to 8 bit and i am running great in 256 color mode. I still have the occasional crash as you mentioned but im up and running in 256. I am going to have to play around some more to see if i can get 32 bit to work on dispmanx on.
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im up and running in 256.
Nice!
I am going to have to play around some more to see if i can get 32 bit to work on dispmanx on.
The main obstacle seems to be switching back and forth from within the emulated MacOS. I'm considering setting up a separate 1GB OS8 image already set to thousands of colors for games that need it. However, I might not bother, as most of the games I'm interested in playing only run in 256 colors anyway.
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@mediamogul can you provide a small list of hi res games. Everything i have is capable of 256 colors. So for now staying in 256 is ok with me. Just curious of what games required it.
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@edmaul69 said in Macintosh (Basilisk II) 8-bit Color:
can you provide a small list of hi res games.
To be honest, I can't really think of any myself. However, it's a safe bet that more and more games released past the mid 90s started to require or at least could make use of the higher color range.
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@mediamogul yeah i have a couple that work on it. Erics ultimate solitaire actually makes use of it with the wallpapers. They are scaled down when in 8bit mode
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Well this emulator and erics ultimate solitaire has just proven i am one pathetic loser thats got no game!! :(
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Wow, that actually sparks a memory. I used to play this particular version of solitaire quite a bit back in the day. If I'm not mistaken, I got my copy off of a MacAddict Disc.
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@mediamogul its a hard to win solitaire thats for sure. In this game i obviously didnt get to move any cards and since the cards flip three at a time, the top card from the last flip was that ace so because it was tge last card i dont get a change in the card that comes to the top and since it auto moves aces i didnt even get the pleasure of the only play in the game. I want those 10 seconds of my life back. :) I want to thank you for your help. It is awesome to have this emulator working good. And thank you @buzz for your help.
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@edmaul69 said in Macintosh (Basilisk II) 8-bit Color:
I want to thank you for your help.
Not a problem. I've been wanting to play some of the older Mac titles for quite a while. This should be fun.
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@mediamogul @buzz so i found an issue with 256 color mode. If i have my apple superdrive plugged in and boot into baselisk with 256 colors i get an error 10 in os 8.1. If i open up the emulators.cfg and add --cdrom plus link to my install iso file it disables the cdrom and loads. However the iso file wont show up either. Both work in b&w, 16bit and 32bit just fine.
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@edmaul69 well it works on 8.0. I am going to reinstall from scratch and see what happens with 8.1.
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@edmaul69 i got it working. Had to uninstall and reinstall basilisk and use a new image.
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