Macintosh Retropie emulation
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MacOS classic apps always need to be brought into the Basilisk environment in their original stuffed (.sit) or image (.img) formats and unpacked from there. Classic Mac applications had resource forks that are lost when introduced to other file systems, which is why they are appearing white. Without the resource forks, the Mac doesn't even know what they are.
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i had put already installed apps i had unzipped.
they worked just find on the mac version of basiliskthe website i got these from had zip files per each letter that i can try and see if they work to unzip via the pi but doubt it.
ill have to see if i can find them in this .sit format i guess. let me take a look
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@edmaul69 i stand corrected now. the games were unzipped from .dsk files which then opened an image with the games in their own folders just ready to go. no installation process needed and yes these worked just fine on the os via mac basilisk
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@briandamico if one of you want to check out emaculation in google search you can see what i have and am dealing with via that site
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Nice. Mounting a .dsk in the Basilisk environment will of course also preserve the resource forks, as the disk image was formatted to accomodate.
Edit: Ah, I see you were talking about the previous applications that you were able to get working. As long as everything is unpacked after being brought into Basilisk, everything should be fine.
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@mediamogul
So what do you think I should do. The games/files are the same files that were used and opened just fine in basilisk on the mac.If I am even able to unzip a dsk in os 7.5 the files are still the same as they were before.
The bigger question is, why do the games appear to open fine in basilisk on the mac but not on the pi when it's using he exact same os file?
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The bigger question is, why do the games appear to open fine in basilisk on the mac but not on the pi when it's using he exact same os file?
It could be that the current MacOSX still retains the ability to preserve resource forks in it's file system. Classic apps were supported early on in OSX and it might be a holdover. I was assuming that .dsk was a somewhat standard disk image, but it might be a type of self-mounting image that the MacOS needs to read as an application.
Two apps I have installed in Basilisk are 'Stuffit Expander 5.5' and 'Disk Copy 6.3.3'. Anything I bring into Basilisk on the Pi opens with one or the other. have you tried opening the .dsk file with 'Disk Copy' or was it ever embedded in a .sit, .bin, or .hqx file that Stuffit should be opening?
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@mediamogul i found a site that had games as a .sit
it presented the SAME error when trying to open them.i have a feeling its something bigger with this error.
its saying "the application program that created it cannot be found, could not find translation extension with appropriate translators"
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Have you been able to use Stuffit Expander at all yet on the Pi? Assuming that it's operational, you might try highlighting the .sit file, press whatever button combo equates to 'apple+i' or 'cmd+i' and make sure that the file is set to open with Stuffit in the resulting window.
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i can try all of this but what i am most curious is why i don't have to do any of this via basilisk on the mac?
i have some photos I'm going to post in a few of my mac version of basilisk which is ALL the same stuff as it is on the pi
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can try all of this but what i am most curious is why i don't have to do any of this via basilisk on the mac?
It's just a guess, but as stated above, it could be due to how OSX handles files.
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Are those files being run from within the Basilisk Mac environment, or just from the linked folder in OSX?
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in the environment, they are in the unix folder in a folder called games
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@briandamico said in Macintosh Retropie emulation:
they are in the unix folder in a folder called games
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the unix folder reside in OSX. If that's the case and it's the same setup your working with on the Pi, then that's definitely the problem.
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@mediamogul
ok so your saying the fact that i have all the same files i used for the mac basilisk version which I'm using for the pi is the problem?but how else was i suppose to get the OS on to the pi if not preparing it via the mac first?
if you could be so kind as to break it down for me what i did wrong and what i can do to fix it i would be forever grateful
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Not exactly. On the Pi, the unix folder should only ever be considered as a portal. No games or files should ever be run from it. The files should be fully copied to the Basilisk Mac environment before working with them further. The reason this is not necessary on the Mac OSX side is likely due to it's ability to preserve classic Mac files.
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@mediamogul ok, well i did move the games folder over all together at one point to the Macintosh HD on the pi and nothing happened.
i moved the games folder to the macintosh HD on the mac version of basilisk and it works just the same as it was if it was in the unix folder -
@briandamico said in Macintosh Retropie emulation:
i did move the games folder over all together at one point to the Macintosh HD on the pi and nothing happened.
Somehow or another the files were probably corrupted along the way. It could be something else, but from what you're describing, it sounds like the most possible scenario.
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i don't know how tiny kb files (93) of them can be corrupted when they were dragged and dropped via a shared folder.
it has to be something else we are not seeing.aside from starting from scratch again to create a new OS img. it still doe not explain why the game files show an image icon on the mac vs a plain white image on the pi
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