Macintosh (Basilisk II) 8-bit Color
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@spud11 yes you can do it that way. Still i would just use blank files in the roms folder and put everything in the emulators.cfg. If you put all the info in the rom files it may bypass the emulators.cfg and you can lose the runcommand options to set video settings and emulator settings and stuff.
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@edmaul69 Okay, I think I understand. Thanks.
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@spud11 and in the blank files remove the .sh. They dont need a file extension and im pretty sure they dont need to be executable either when done this way.
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@spud11 said in Macintosh (Basilisk II) 8-bit Color:
[...] I couldn't figure out what the default controls are. (Are there keyboard controls?)PoP2 (I think it's the same for PoP1) needs to be controlled w/ the keyboard, preferably w/ the nummeric pad. Coltrol = sword, Shift = smallstep or hang on ledge. I can remember that the MS-DOS version had an option to use a joystick. Unfortunately I cannot refer to a website with allmost all information one neends on PoP because it contains copyrighted material, or at least links to that. Maybe the mods will let me say that the site is called "Prince of Persia Unofficial Site" (Google is your friend).
Unfortunately I have no experience w/ "attract mode" so I cannot help you w/ the rest. BasiliskII is very, very tricky to get to work (in 256 colors) as you've noticed. Good luck w/ getting it to work on you system and let us know if and how you succeeded!
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If you want to play Prince of Persia with Basilisk II you have to simply change the option displaycolordepth on basiliskii.cfg BEFORE you change the same option in the MacOS control panel. So:
nano /opt/retropie/configs/macintosh/basiliskii.cfgdisplaycolordepth 8
Then enable dispmanx for basilisk on RetroPie Setup. At this point start the emulator and ONLY NOW you can change the color on 256 mode ;-)
Not tricky, you have to do the right things in the right order ;-)
Bye all
Reference: http://www.retropie-italia.it/viewtopic.php?f=61&t=753
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@meneer-jansen Thanks for that. I'll have a go during the next couple of days sorting out the controls based on those keyboard commands you've suggested, once I've got the game up and running again. I also found the files I was missing in another pack. Thanks.
@FranceMSR Thanks for that suggestion. I had tried again today using the original order, but couldn't get the game to work, possibly/probably because of the order in which I was doing each thing. I'll try the order you have suggested and hopefully I'll succeed this time and will report back.
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@francemsr said in Macintosh (Basilisk II) 8-bit Color:
If you want to play Prince of Persia with Basilisk II you have to simply change the option displaycolordepth on basiliskii.cfg BEFORE you change the same option in the MacOS control panel. So:
nano /opt/retropie/configs/macintosh/basiliskii.cfgdisplaycolordepth 8
Then enable dispmanx for basilisk on RetroPie Setup. At this point start the emulator and ONLY NOW you can change the color on 256 mode ;-)
Not tricky, you have to do the right things in the right order ;-)
Bye all
Reference: http://www.retropie-italia.it/viewtopic.php?f=61&t=753
Just for my information: can one run BasiliskII without activating dispmanx at all? I thought one couldn't. Info appreciated. :-)
Avid Linux user.
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@meneer-jansen said in Macintosh (Basilisk II) 8-bit Color:
Just for my information: can one run BasiliskII without activating dispmanx at all? I thought one couldn't. Info appreciated. :-)
Yes, but you can't change the color mode on 256 (8 bit) ;-)
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@francemsr said in Macintosh (Basilisk II) 8-bit Color:
@meneer-jansen said in Macintosh (Basilisk II) 8-bit Color:
Just for my information: can one run BasiliskII without activating dispmanx at all? I thought one couldn't. Info appreciated. :-)
Yes, but you can't change the color mode on 256 (8 bit) ;-)
Thanks. Can you check/proof read my procedure in post 137? Are the steps in proper order now?
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@meneer-jansen said in Macintosh (Basilisk II) 8-bit Color:
Thanks. Can you check/proof read my procedure in post 137? Are the steps in proper order now?
The only necessary thing is that you enable dispmanx for basilisk and change the color depth in the configuration file BEFORE you change the same option on MacOS ;-)
I don't use a pre-made disk but install MacOS from scratch with empty virtual disk, so I don't use the 16 grays option step.
Check now for a screenshots of the results here:
http://www.retropie-italia.it/viewtopic.php?f=61&t=753Here there is a guide (in italian) for installing MacOS from scratch:
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@meneer-jansen yes thousands of colors and millions of colors won’t run with dispmanx hence why you need to switch it to b&w before enabling dispmanx and displaycolordepth 8. You dont need runcommand-onstart and runcommand-onend. If this is added to the wiki i wouldnt have it as a tutorial just for the pop games. I have a ton of games on mine. I also set /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/macintosh/ as my second drive instead of an image then i can just put my apple programs in there and then install them inside basilisk. Eliminating the need to use basiliskii on the pc every time i want to add programs.
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@edmaul69 said in Macintosh (Basilisk II) 8-bit Color:
@meneer-jansen yes thousands of colors and millions of colors won’t run with dispmanx hence why you need to switch it to b&w before enabling dispmanx and displaycolordepth 8. You dont need runcommand-onstart and runcommand-onend. If this is added to the wiki i wouldnt have it as a tutorial just for the pop games. I have a ton of games on mine. I also set /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/macintosh/ as my second drive instead of an image then i can just put my apple programs in there and then install them inside basilisk. Eliminating the need to use basiliskii on the pc every time i want to add programs.
I repeat: The only necessary thing is that you enable dispmanx for basilisk and change the color depth in the configuration file BEFORE you change the same option on MacOS ;-)
Not funny procedure like change color to black and white or other things acting as a magician :D
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@francemsr You cannot switch it to enable dismanx or displaycolordepth 8 if your macos is in thousands of colors or millions of colors. They do not work with dispmanx enabled. And if you try to switch to 256 colors without dispmanx enabled it crashes basilisk. If you try to boot a thousands+ colors set in macos with dispmanx enabled everything crashes. Hence why you need to either switch to b&w or have it already set to 256 colors before being changing dispmanx on the pi.
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@edmaul69 said in Macintosh (Basilisk II) 8-bit Color:
@francemsr You cannot switch it to enable dismanx or displaycolordepth 8 if your macos is in thousands of colors or millions of colors. They do not work with dispmanx enabled. And if you try to switch to 256 colors without dispmanx enabled it crashes basilisk. If you try to boot a thousands+ colors set in macos with dispmanx enabled everything crashes. Hence why you need to either switch to b&w or have it already set to 256 colors before being changing dispmanx on the pi.
You're wrong. I installed MacOS 7.5.3 that by default is set to thousands of colors. Then I enabled dispmanx, then changed color depth to 8 in configuration file. At that point I started MacOS and change colors from thousands to 256. It works without any problem, see here for the result:
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@francemsr i have done this many times. Even tested it three times today with the same results as the many many times i tried before.
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@francemsr i made a video as proof.
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@edmaul69 said in Macintosh (Basilisk II) 8-bit Color:
@francemsr i made a video as proof.
I'm using MacOS7.5.5 installed from scratch by me. I don't know what you have done in your system and which parameters you're using on basilisik configuration file. Again, if you see the screenshots at the end of this thread you will see the result:
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@francemsr im using 8.1 but it did it on 7.5 as well. In earlier thread comments in this thread or the other one when i was setting this up it was stated to do it the same way i mention for the same reason. But at any case for the tutorial it should be mentioned to change it to b&w so others dont have the same issue me and others have had and not know why and never get it working because of that. B&w will guarantee it works for them.
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@edmaul69 and @FranceMSR: thank you both for the input. I added the info to my post at nr. 137. I included as mucht info as possible there. I made a choice to make it not as short as possible but as complete as possible.
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@edmaul69 said in Macintosh (Basilisk II) 8-bit Color:
@francemsr ...B&w will guarantee it works for them.
If I use B&W Basilisk crashes...
What I can guarantee is that if you follow this guide for installing MacOS:
http://www.retropie-italia.it/viewtopic.php?f=61&t=752then my step for playing 256 colors game:
http://www.retropie-italia.it/viewtopic.php?f=61&t=753
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/1049/macintosh-basilisk-ii-8-bit-color/171it ALWAYS works ;-)
P.S.: compile Basilisk from source code, don't use binary version
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