I should add a little bit of a correction here. Make sure you change the modelid to 14 before you apply the 8.1 update. Otherwise you'll get the notification that says "This update is not compatible with your computer." As long as you have the empty .img file to load the OS files, you can take that route and watch as it prepares the necessary files and folders. After this is done, make sure you go to Special>Shutdown. You can now delete the older disk.img. Before launching the Macintosh desktop, rename whatever you called that empty .img (now containing the Mac OS 8.1) to disk.img.

Every time you add a new game, you might want to open basiliskii.cfg and add to each line: cdrom /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/macintosh/nameofgame.iso (or nameofgame.img). This way, the .iso or .img will show up as a disc on the desktop. You just need to double click on each disc, find the executable, and double click it. That should go through the install process, but sometimes you might have to drag and drop a/several folder(s) into a single game folder where your other games might be stored.

Run emulationstation --debug from a terminal window and post the output. My guess is that there's no HW accelerated GL support, but the log output would help confirming the assumption.

@thetraingoes Yeahhhh im about to try Wineskin for the PC version. Thanks for at least replying.
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@raymate have you looked at openemu? Pretty much the majority of the same software

Does no one have any ideas on this?

@buzz Thank you for your attention! :)

@pjft MACs aren't my thing, I leave them to the GF and the young wan. Everyone I see talks about dd In fact I saw etcher get ripped to shreds on reddit by people criticising them for just over-complicating dd. Saying that, I do like a nice GUI and I have no issues with it. Straight into a zip? You could ask them to add it. They seem like they are willing to help.

@necrominog i am not sure. I would have to look into that. I use a real dvd drive in my setup. Did you look in the basiliskii config file?

Alright.

@ret_1213

The files work fine for booting in... Basilisk on Mac.

If you haven't already, you'll also need to copy the information from ~/.basilisk_ii_prefs on your Mac to opt/retropie/configs/macintosh/basiliskii.cfg on the Pi.

@BuZz ok. I will look around. The only rom i got working was the performa rom as that is what the retropie wiki said i needed. I tried others with no luck. I will try to find a mac classic image and go from there. Thank you.

Thanks!

@Pixel0501 when you say "my" password, you aren't talking about your Mac OS password are you? The default password for retropie is ........ raspberry. Another question is have you logged in via ssh before? Because if you have and had to start over by reinstalling retropie, Mac OS has a security feature that keeps logs of MAC addresses and ssh keys, and when you try to log in again it will stop you since the new retropie install will not be using the same key. Mac OS tells you though and tells you what file you have to edit to remove that log.

I see this thread "SSH doesn't allow me to modify file"... https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=62443

...and now I wonder how I ever did this in the first place :)

I can certainly go back to making a few changes to config.txt on the Pi itself, but I thought I had figured out a way such as this to store a couple of versions of that config file (eg. one for a CRT and one for HDTV), and just swap them in and out like this without the typing.

@mediamogul I've been seeing this on the forum here about this mysterious basilisk config file that needs to be in basilisk but I haven't seen anything in the docs about this. Seems like the docs could use a lot more information about basilisk. Where can I find out how to create and use this config? I have my os 7.5.3 Macintosh img and rom working fine, all I'd like to do now is make it be 640x480 and full screen. If I do anything lower than 1600x1200 in the run command options or within the emulator using the screen settings, it displays in a smaller window in the upper left corner of the display.