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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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                  edmaul69 @briandamico
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                  @briandamico ok so couple issues. I dont see mac.img in your roms folder. Second, in the emulators.cfg you have the old config and the new one i gave you in there. You need to delete all of it and put in only what i gave you. It wont work with all that in there.

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                    briandamico @edmaul69
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                    @edmaul69 Ok I will update the config file

                    As I mentioned earlier I removed the mac.img file that was there because with it in there it stopped loading all of my games across all consoles.

                    The moment I removed the mac.img from the rom folder macintosh everything worked again.

                    Weird right? Can you possibly explain that?

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                      edmaul69 @briandamico
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                      @briandamico i cant explain except maybe you dont have enough space on your sd card and are completely filling it up??

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                        briandamico @edmaul69
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                        @edmaul69 128gm card and only used 25-30gb

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                          briandamico @edmaul69
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                          @edmaul69 I may just call it quits on the macintosh if it's this difficult to work but I have to ask, I have the apple ii emulator up and running games just fine, i even have an apple ii keyboard, but apparently it's not mapped like I thought it would be.

                          Can I map a vintage apple ii keyboard for the apple ii games?

                          I didn't even think I would have to since I hooked up the keyboard used for many of these games but not much is working other then when typing for metadata descriptions

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                            edmaul69 @briandamico
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                            @briandamico if you quit emulationstation and exit to commandline does it show 128gb? I am just curious if it expanded the file system automatically or not.

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                              briandamico @edmaul69
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                              @edmaul69 so quite emulation station and when I get to script type command line?

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                                edmaul69 @briandamico
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                                @briandamico if you press f4 button on a keyboard or press start then choose quit and then quit emulationstation. Either way will put you at the command line. You see a bunch of info. It says what size your sd card is and free space. If it doesnt say anything close to 128gb size or more than several gb free you have an issue. Then you would need to expand your file system if that is the case.

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                                  briandamico @edmaul69
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                                  @edmaul69 ok this is weird
                                  It says size 28gb used 26g and 88m avail use 100%

                                  It's a 128gb card
                                  I did use an app to condense my image backup to a 64gb sd for another project could that be what is happening?

                                  Can this be fixed?

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                                    briandamico @edmaul69
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                                    @edmaul69 i fixed it with sd clone app
                                    it had an expand feature
                                    87 gb available now and i will go forward and see if that fixed the issue :)

                                    ill correct those things too

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                                      briandamico @edmaul69
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                                      @edmaul69 replacing text to the following

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

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                                        briandamico @edmaul69
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                                        @edmaul69 didn't work again lol
                                        i rebooted the system too after i made the changes.

                                        i have the mac.img in the rom folder too

                                        and ps. the games open now too so it was the sd card size which is now fixed.

                                        but doesn't explain the os not starting up

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                                          edmaul69 @briandamico
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                                          @briandamico all of this info in the emulators.cfg is all on one line right? Wont work if it isnt.

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                                            briandamico @edmaul69
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                                            @edmaul69 i believe so. i will triple check that.
                                            i simply copied and pasted what you posted. no breaks of any sort

                                            granted in terminal, its two lines but its continuous

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