Macintosh Retropie emulation

edmaul69

@briandamico first off read through this and try to set up on your pc first. You have to do this and then transfer the image file to the pi. Get apple os 8.1 and use a performa or quadra rom

http://www.emaculation.com/doku.php/basilisk_ii

edmaul69

@briandamico also, put the os in 16 color b&w before you stick it on the pi. I will explain why when you get to that point.

briandamico

@edmaul69
thanks for the info!
well i got basilisk for the mac and tried to install following this video

and could not get it to work.
just won't set up the same way.
i wonder if its bc I'm running much later OS than he in the video.
but i have all the proper files downloaded. all the rom files and os files
and they are unzipped

edmaul69

@briandamico start with the os7.5.3 like he is. You can install the os8 and os8.1 updates later. I started on 7.5.3 as well.

briandamico

@edmaul69 i did everything he did in the video. but was not able to get the OS mounted and loaded like in the video.

I keep getting a message that says

"Could not start Basilisk II (So such file or directory)"

sorry to be back and forth on this so much, i appreciate the responses !!

edmaul69

@briandamico do you have BasiliskII and BasiliskIIGUI in the same folder? BasiliskII will boot up like a mac without the hard drive installed. As long as you have a good rom set in the BasiliskIIGUI.

briandamico

@edmaul69 they are indeed in the same folder.
I used the performa rom and the quadra650 rom and both came with same result.
all proper files are in that root folder i made and set everything to boot up from.
just keeps giving the no file or directory error.

briandamico

@edmaul69 so odd thing happened.

I decided to do what others have mentioned on the web about moving the app to the desktop, and though it didn't make sense in my situation i thought, i did it anyway.
well here is what i did.

moved main app icon to desktop. attempted to open, and save and start up. FAILED
moved main app icon back to root folder, attempted to open, save and start, FAILED
SAME as #2 above, but i for some reason decided to look in the menu drop down of basilisk for FILE and saw save and start so i decided to hit save, and then hit start and BAM!!! it opened and ran!!

so i don't know why, i don't know how but it seems that the actual start and save in the window were not working vs doing it from the file drop down window!

super super super weird and glad i decided to go further

briandamico

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briandamico

@edmaul69 so now that i actually have this up and running on my actual mac. what would i do next to move this over to a PI via the Macintosh emulator on there (which is already present on the pi with a Start option)

thanks again or the help!

edmaul69

@briandamico can you ftp into the pi and tell me the contents of the start.sh file that is in

/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/macintosh/

briandamico

@edmaul69 thats the exact location as you just posted

edmaul69

@briandamico can you open up the file thats there and tell me what it says inside it.

briandamico

@edmaul69 just opened it. its a txt file and it was empty!! not a single piece of text inside it

edmaul69

@briandamico what is the name of your rom and your image file including the file extensions. Tell me that and i can tell you what to put in it.

edmaul69

@briandamico i just realised, it is supposed to be blank. I still need to know those names because you need to edit two other files.

briandamico

@edmaul69 ok. well its no longer an image as its running on basilisk on my mac.
i assume i now need the original .img file or is what i have done via the mac app for basilisk going to be good enough to move over to the pie?

the files are as follows

MacOS-753 is the image/OS (a 1gb txt edit file representing the OS)
and i have a few roms

PERFORMA.rom
QUAD650.rom

edmaul69

@briandamico ok put the files in you macintosh roms folder. you dont need the performa rom. but you can put it there still if you want. now open up /opt/retropie/configs/macintosh/emulators.cfg and replace the info with this:

basilisk = "/opt/retropie/emulators/basilisk/bin/BasiliskII --rom /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/macintosh/QUAD650.rom --disk /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/macintosh/MacOS-753 --extfs /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/macintosh --config /opt/retropie/configs/macintosh/basiliskii.cfg"
default = "basilisk"

this also is set up so you have your macintosh roms folder as an external drive. so any new files you want to add, just dump them in there. now open up /opt/retropie/configs/macintosh/basiliskii.cfg and replace its entire contents with this:

extfs /
seriala /dev/ttyS0
serialb /dev/ttyS1
udptunnel false
udpport 6066
bootdrive 0
bootdriver -62
ramsize 268435456
frameskip 2
modelid 14
cpu 4
fpu true
nocdrom false
nosound false
noclipconversion false
nogui false
jit true
jitfpu false
jitdebug false
jitcachesize 8192
jitlazyflush true
jitinline true
keyboardtype 5
keycodes false
mousewheelmode 1
mousewheellines 3
dsp /dev/dsp
mixer /dev/mixer
ignoresegv true
idlewait true
ether slirp

now you should be good to go. these configs here also give you 256mb of ram.

briandamico

@edmaul69 thank you!
well i have the files moved over successfully but i am having issues replacing the text in the cfg file.
i cannot just edit in cyberduck and i used terminal to access the file, which was actually blank, or maybe it is blank now, but still, cannot save the changed in terminal as it gives me an error upon hitting enter and says no such file or directory

briandamico

@edmaul69 ok fixed first part, i didn't have the / before opt/
it had to be /opt/

stupid mistake.ok I'm gonna keep going and see how i make out