Macintosh (Basilisk II) 8-bit Color

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.

edmaul69

@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

edmaul69

Well this emulator and erics ultimate solitaire has just proven i am one pathetic loser thats got no game!! :(

mediamogul

@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.

edmaul69

@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.

mediamogul

@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.

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.

edmaul69

@edmaul69 well it works on 8.0. I am going to reinstall from scratch and see what happens with 8.1.

edmaul69

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

mediamogul

@edmaul69

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

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.

edmaul69

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

mediamogul

@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.

edmaul69

@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.

mediamogul

@edmaul69

I've been staying with 8-bit while I try to beat 'Prince of Persia 2'.

edmaul69

@mediamogul i am on 16 bit at the moment because most of the time when i exit 8 bit and try to go back in it is a black screen and i have to reset the machine to go back in. Even if i do a reset immedietly after exit. So it only works every other time. And right now i am playing solitaire, tetris and minesweeper pro. So nothing that needs 256 color. I will get to prince of persia 2 soon. Beat the first one on the xbox live arcade. The mac version obviously isnt anywhere graphically as good as the xbox live arcade version but man the colors really pop for being 256 colors. So easy on the eyes. The second looks good too.

mediamogul

@edmaul69

About a month ago, I played and beat the original Apple ][ version of PoP1. I can remember seeing it for the first time and being amazed by that fluid animation. The SNES version is often touted as being the definitive version, but I wanted to say that I've beaten the original. I can't think of another game, besides possibly the original 'Double Dragon' that has been ported so many times. PoP2 didn't get anywhere near as many ports, with most having vastly inferior graphics and many omitted levels, making the MacOS the best by default. It's really tough though.

edmaul69

@mediamogul question for you, why is your modelid set to 14. according to apples website there is no such number and the quadra 900's model id is 20 on their site

https://support.apple.com/kb/TA47453?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

mediamogul

@edmaul69

I set everything up through a GUI on my Mac. If memory serves, I believe I just selected the Quadra 900 from a pull down menu and the model ID was set from there. Have you noticed any improvements by setting it to 20?

edmaul69

@mediamogul i only got as far as verifying it booted. I stumbled across the info while setting up a second basilisk running everything like a mac plus since mini vmac cuts off the sides on non widescreen tv's. :( hopefully it gets fixed at some point.