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    Macintosh Retropie emulation

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      briandamico @briandamico
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        briandamico @edmaul69
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        @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!

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          edmaul69 @briandamico
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          @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/
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            briandamico @edmaul69
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            @edmaul69 thats the exact location as you just posted

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              edmaul69 @briandamico
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              @briandamico can you open up the file thats there and tell me what it says inside it.

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

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                  edmaul69 @briandamico
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                  @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.

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                    edmaul69 @briandamico
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                    @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.

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                      briandamico @edmaul69
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                      @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

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                        edmaul69 @briandamico
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                        @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.

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                          briandamico @edmaul69
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                          @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

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                            briandamico @edmaul69
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                            @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

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                              briandamico @edmaul69
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                              @edmaul69 ok its all done to a T
                              everything you said to do is done.

                              now the result, doesn't work lol.

                              i rebooted, went to the emulator on the pi, hit start, and it just bounces back to the emulator .

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                                briandamico @edmaul69
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                                @edmaul69 here is what the roms folder looks like incase u wanna see it

                                [URL=http://s95.photobucket.com/user/briandamico/media/nes/Screen%20Shot%202017-05-13%20at%201.33.26%20PM.png.html][IMG]http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l137/briandamico/nes/Screen Shot 2017-05-13 at 1.33.26 PM.png[/IMG][/URL]

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                                  briandamico @edmaul69
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                                  @edmaul69 Hey Ed
                                  sorry for all the replies.
                                  just keeping you in the loop

                                  i wanted to shed some light on something that i discovered to happen.

                                  Once i successfully got the 1gb file that was my macOS-753 in the rom folder i was no longer able to load ANY games what so ever on ANY emulator

                                  and i already erased my sd and restored from a back up to start from scratch and without doing the cfg files yet, i just moved stuff to the rom folder, and then since cyberduck would let me drag and drop the macos-753 over, i used my usb stick to do it, and once it got over there, not one game would open. just bounces back to the games list.

                                  very very very odd.

                                  with the other rom files in there its fine, but its the os file that seems to be the problem

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                                    edmaul69 @briandamico
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                                    @briandamico rename the os to "mac.img".(all lowercase) Then edit the emulators.cfg file so it is called mac.img (all lowercase) in there too. See if that helps you any.

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                                      briandamico @edmaul69
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                                      @edmaul69 just to be clear
                                      this is no.img in the text you wrote
                                      it was originally just MacOS-753 with no .img after it

                                      so I'm just putting mac instead of MacOS-753

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                                        briandamico @edmaul69
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                                        @edmaul69 didn't work :(

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                                          edmaul69 @briandamico
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                                          @briandamico you can put .img. It doesnt care. Can you post a pic of your files in your macintosh folder and pics of the contentents of your emulators.cfg file?

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                                            briandamico @edmaul69
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                                            @edmaul69 ok here they are

                                            http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l137/briandamico/nes/Screen Shot 2017-05-14 at 8.49.05 PM.png

                                            http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l137/briandamico/nes/Screen Shot 2017-05-14 at 8.50.50 PM.png

                                            http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l137/briandamico/nes/Screen Shot 2017-05-14 at 8.50.34 PM.png

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