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    Macintosh (Basilisk II) 8-bit Color

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    • edmaul69E
      edmaul69 @mediamogul
      last edited by edmaul69

      @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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      • edmaul69E
        edmaul69 @mediamogul
        last edited by edmaul69

        @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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        • mediamogulM
          mediamogul Global Moderator @edmaul69
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          @edmaul69

          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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          • edmaul69E
            edmaul69 @mediamogul
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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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            • mediamogulM
              mediamogul Global Moderator @edmaul69
              last edited by mediamogul

              @edmaul69

              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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              • edmaul69E
                edmaul69 @mediamogul
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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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                • mediamogulM
                  mediamogul Global Moderator @edmaul69
                  last edited by mediamogul

                  @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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                  • edmaul69E
                    edmaul69 @mediamogul
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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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                    • edmaul69E
                      edmaul69
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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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                      • mediamogulM
                        mediamogul Global Moderator @edmaul69
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                        @edmaul69

                        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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                        • edmaul69E
                          edmaul69 @mediamogul
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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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                          • mediamogulM
                            mediamogul Global Moderator @edmaul69
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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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                            • edmaul69E
                              edmaul69 @mediamogul
                              last edited by edmaul69

                              @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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                              • edmaul69E
                                edmaul69 @edmaul69
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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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                                • edmaul69E
                                  edmaul69 @edmaul69
                                  last edited by edmaul69

                                  @edmaul69 i got it working. Had to uninstall and reinstall basilisk and use a new image.

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                                  • mediamogulM
                                    mediamogul Global Moderator @edmaul69
                                    last edited by

                                    @edmaul69

                                    Sweet deal. You still on 8.1 or did you move down to 8.0?

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                                    • edmaul69E
                                      edmaul69 @mediamogul
                                      last edited by edmaul69

                                      @mediamogul im on 8.1. I had to replace the image to fix the cd drive issue but had to reinstall basilisk to fix another issue. When i put a new image on it would load just fine if i didnt give 777 permissions but when you do anything like change video it wouldnt save. (Even 0775 wont save settings) If i gave the files 777 permissions it would load all the way to the main screen but never load any of the desktop icons and you couldnt click on anything. So i am not sure what went wrong with the emulator.

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                                      • edmaul69E
                                        edmaul69 @mediamogul
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                                        @mediamogul its official i just beat my low score!! :( man i am glad i had solitaire on windows...

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                                        • mediamogulM
                                          mediamogul Global Moderator @edmaul69
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                                          @edmaul69

                                          Funny stuff. You may be onto something here in highlighting your failed solitaire attempts. It could take off and become the biggest form of ironic entertainment since Garfield minus Garfield.

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                                          • edmaul69E
                                            edmaul69 @mediamogul
                                            last edited by

                                            @mediamogul im not sure if you have tried using 32bit but for me i go in an out of basilisk a lot and 3 times it has trashed my img file. Running in 16bit no problems whatsoever yet.

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