Macintosh (Basilisk II) 8-bit Color
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@meneer-jansen i decided to just update everything including kernel to see if that fixes it. Somehow i must have chosen to do it from source because it has been running all day. So sometime next year i might be able to finish updating and be able to test.
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@edmaul69 said in Macintosh (Basilisk II) 8-bit Color:
to finish updating and be a
Wow! Compiling a single application from source takes a long time on an average computer. On a Pi it must take days to compile everything! Good luck and have patience. :-)
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@meneer-jansen @mediamogul woohoo!! I have it working every time. Just like @Meneer-Jansen i dont have the on-start and on-end settings. It locks my system up too. It works with displaycolordepth8 setting only.
A NOTE TO NEW COMERS: do not add “displaycolordepth8” in basiliskii.cfg and enable dispmanx until/unless you change your color to 16 color b&w first or it is pre setup at 256 colors/16 color b&w.
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@edmaul69 said in Macintosh (Basilisk II) 8-bit Color:
do not set add “displaycolordepth8” in basiliskii.cfg until/unless you change your color to 16 color b&w first or it is pre setup at 256 colors/16 color b&w.
This was likely my problem when I first blacked out on startup. Now that it's set in the Mac environment I'll remove my own onstart/end to confirm.
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one thing, my image made from minivmac which is b&w boots with/without sleep 2; but my 256 color image will not boot with it.
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That approach was a nonstarter anyway. It's useful to alleviate possible race conditions in a few cases, but ended up not applying here.
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@mediamogul i still cant get it to boot every time. the first time it worked 3 times in a row.then i tried with the on-start/on-end settings and they didnt work and now it wont boot every time for me.
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Mine's still launching every time so far, but I still feel like we're all going to be spinning our wheels on shaky ground without an upstream fix. The author of the displaycolordepth8 fix even said that his addition was a hack and almost didn't submit it officially.
I'm not around my setup at the moment, but I'm curious to see what affect removing the onstart/end has for me. I'm betting that, as you say, having the Mac environment previously set to 256 will make all the difference. Did I understand you correctly in that you can potentially stave off a crash by first selecting 'Black & White' before switching to 256? If so, will this also work in reverse as an intermediate step between 256 and a higher setting?
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@mediamogul i was mentioning it needing to be changed before enabling dispmanx. I might not have said that correctly.
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@mediamogul edited the original post
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@mediamogul @Meneer-Jansen can you post youremulators.cfg files?
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Sure...
basilisk = "/opt/retropie/emulators/basilisk/bin/BasiliskII --rom /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/macintosh/mac.rom --disk /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/macintosh/disk.img --extfs /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/macintosh --config /opt/retropie/configs/macintosh/basiliskii.cfg" default="basilisk" -
@mediamogul i found my issue of it not booting every time. i had a typo in the basiliskii.cfg. i have the on start and on end set how @Meneer-Jansen posted it. it works all the time now. thank you both.
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I just tested mine without the onstart/end scripts, and while it never crashed for me with them on, everything is running fine without them. @Meneer-Jansen, I think it's probably safe if you want to remove those particulars in your guide above for posterity. While still not a perfect solution, I'm satisfied with what we now have as-is. If you guys ever experiment with streamlining the process, or learn anything new I'd always be interested to hear it.
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Hi. There was some reference to lxde earlier in this thread, but I'm assuming we don't need this - that we can just install BasiliskII following items 1 to 9 of Meneer Jansen's guide in this thread from a day ago (and pray it works!)
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@spud11 yes just use his latest guide except ignore the runcommand stuff. If the img file isnt already in 16 color b&w or 256 color, do not add the “displaycolordepth 8” to the basiliskii.cfg or set the dispmanx to “enabled” in retropie-setup.
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@spud11 so if it isnt in 256 color, set it to 16 color b&w. Then add the other stuff in the guide above. After that boot the img thats set to b&w then change to 256 colors. You cant set it to 256 colors when it is in thousands or millions of colors. It crashes the program if you do.
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@edmaul69 Okay, thanks so much for your help on this. I'll have a crack at it this evening after work and let you know. I haven't played around with BasiliskII on Linux or Retropie yet, but have on Windoze and, sadly, it hasn't been a happy experience so far.
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@edmaul69 said in Macintosh (Basilisk II) 8-bit Color:
@mediamogul @Meneer-Jansen can you post your emulators.cfg files?
basilisk = "/opt/retropie/emulators/basilisk/bin/BasiliskII --rom /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/macintosh/mac.rom --disk /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/macintosh/disk.img --disk /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/macintosh/disk02.img --extfs /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/macintosh --config /opt/retropie/configs/macintosh/basiliskii.cfg" default = "basilisk" -
@mediamogul said in Macintosh (Basilisk II) 8-bit Color:
streamlining the process, or learn anything new I'd always be interest
Did that, see: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/1049/macintosh-basilisk-ii-8-bit-color/137 (i.e. post No. 137 in this here topic). :-)
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