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J.F. · Joined: 22 Feb 2004 Posts: 2906

What is it doing? Is it putting an X on the boot display (mac side)? I was able to boot the ubiquitous Network Access floppy just fine. Make sure the floppy doesn't have a header on it. I had to strip the header off the NA floppy before it would boot. B2 expects floppies to be straight data. A high-density disk should be exactly 1474560 bytes long.

Wally · Joined: 26 Sep 2005 Posts: 672

J.F. · Joined: 22 Feb 2004 Posts: 2906

You get an X for a few flashes when something isn't bootable. You get ? when there's nothing in the drive. If you select a floppy in the GUI, it's ALWAYS inserted currently, so you SHOULD get X or the Happy Mac depending on the boot status. Oh well, I'll look into it... I'm currently installing 8.1 on my Slim. I'm trying to get enough in place to check networking... I just added the code to connect to the selected access point (the rest of the network code was already in place). It used to hang right before the desktop when you enabled the udp tunnel (because the network wasn't connected). Now it goes right through, so it's at least getting that far.

By the way - I don't know which OS versions B2 supports exactly. I need to clean up the graphics so I can read things. :) My 8.1 CD seems to work rather well. I don't remember what the Network floppy is, and I can't read the "About this Mac" window. :D

Wally · Joined: 26 Sep 2005 Posts: 672

Wally · Joined: 26 Sep 2005 Posts: 672

So how do we strip the header from a file in Mac OS X / Windows then ;)

J.F. · Joined: 22 Feb 2004 Posts: 2906

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Pirata Nervo · Joined: 09 Oct 2007 Posts: 409

thanks J.F. for updating.
This ROM was from an old Mac my father had, I don't remember which.
I will get a new Mac in a few months :)

Maybe I can find a compatible ROM "somewhere".
So we need to remove the header from the file?
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J.F. · Joined: 22 Feb 2004 Posts: 2906

B2 doesn't like headers on NOTHING! If there's a header, forget about it. :)

Pirata Nervo · Joined: 09 Oct 2007 Posts: 409

hmmm ok :P
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J.F. · Joined: 22 Feb 2004 Posts: 2906

Actually, I think hardfiles can have a header, but they seem to be the only thing like that.

Here's test 3. Even more stuff - the CPU frequency is set by the prefs, and networking should be working (it's just impossible to set the network settings on the Mac side since there's no keyboard). The cdrom and floppy are removable now... but that led me to a weird quirk I'm not sure is due to B2 or not.

When you have the floppy and cdrom set as removable devices (and not just missing when not in use), sometimes the Mac video "stops" - you get the initial dither pattern and nothing else, even though the Mac is still running in the background. As long as you have a bootable hardfile, bootable cdrom, or the combination of a non-bootable hardfile AND a bootable floppy, the video doesn't go out to lunch. So no trying to boot just a floppy. Weird, huh?

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Uh... to insert media, press SELECT. You'll get a field that shows a floppy or cdrom. Press left/right to switch between floppies and cdroms. Press up/down to scroll through the list of floppies or cdroms. When you reach the disk you want, press X to mount it. Note that you must not have a disk inserted in that device or you won't be able to mount it. So if you already have a cdrom inserted, you have to eject it before you can insert the next. Same for the floppy. Only cdroms and floppies in their respective directories will show. You don't get to navigate willy-nilly to select cdroms/floppies on the desktop.

dennis96411 · Joined: 06 Jul 2008 Posts: 70

Hey, umm... How do I use it? I put the EBOOT in the BasiliskIIPSP folder in my GAME folder, along with all other mac files that I use with Chaosknight's BasiliskIIPSP before. It says Basilisk II Error Cannot open ROM file. I put the rom in the same place as the folder. Help, I really want to try it out, it looks very cool.

jas0nuk · Joined: 27 Apr 2006 Posts: 137

dennis96411, you put MAC.ROM in the "roms" folder inside the folder where you put the eboot, and your .dsk files in the "hardfiles" folder. Then you have to go through the settings to input the paths of these files.

Woohoo, I just got it working with test3, though it seems to be very slow compared to the version that was originally posted in this thread. Thanks for the regular updates.

dennis96411 · Joined: 06 Jul 2008 Posts: 70

I thought you're suppose to put your dsk files in disk folder, and hfv files in hardfiles folder.

lex23 · Joined: 06 Jul 2008 Posts: 2

i've got 7.5.5 working.. but i have also mac os 8.img file...but i can''t install 8.. can you help me?

J.F. · Joined: 22 Feb 2004 Posts: 2906

Wally · Joined: 26 Sep 2005 Posts: 672

This is working fantastic!
256 colors works really well and tidies the screen up a bit.

I thought nah no sound would be implemented (recalls TheLazyOne saying something about frequencys that the PSP doesn't support) but i tried the sound control panel and heard the beep and went whoa and nearly fell off my chair.

I played Solitaire until dawn last night, it worked like a chump, played with the puzzle. Will install 8.1 eventually.

I tried playing Oxyd Magnum but the PSP got a bus error for some reason :/

Oh and when i was in the sound control panel the sounds were all "Simple Beep" however when i double clicked a sound in the System file they worked fine.. Not sure if its a bug but yeah.

Thanks so much for the hard work on this, its much appreciated!

I'll get nailed down on my website now, and focus on the mouse based games.. There's plenty of em, a lot of 3D ones to be shuffled through (thats right, DOS couldn't handle 3D very well chumps but the tiny little mac could!)

Wally

P.S You might wanna fix up that bootable disk image issue where it wants the header stripped.. People are going to get stumped like me over it.

J.F. · Joined: 22 Feb 2004 Posts: 2906

dennis96411 · Joined: 06 Jul 2008 Posts: 70

Hey umm how do I install Mac OS 8 with the img? I mounted as the CD but I don't know how to install it. Oh, J.F. can you add multi-floppy support? And when you have a cd img, mount it so it would be on the desktop just like dsk and hfv files. Lol, just an idea, though you don't have to do it.

Wally · Joined: 26 Sep 2005 Posts: 672

The clock is 2 hours fast, I dare say it would be due to timezone differences.

Wally

J.F. · Joined: 22 Feb 2004 Posts: 2906

dennis96411 · Joined: 06 Jul 2008 Posts: 70

Well if you can't add multi-floppy support how do I convert it to hfv files? I've got a Mac HDD.DSK that's about 30 MB.

siulmagic · Joined: 06 Jul 2008 Posts: 42

im having a problem installing from a cdrom, iv selected to boot from cdrom
also configured the disk and were to look for the rom and selected it

but when i boot it displays a floppy disk with a question on the middle and the memory sticks keeps reading something i dont know what it is plz help much appreciate it thx

keep up the good work J.F

J.F. · Joined: 22 Feb 2004 Posts: 2906

J.F. · Joined: 22 Feb 2004 Posts: 2906

J.F. · Joined: 22 Feb 2004 Posts: 2906

Okay, here's test4. This one doesn't hang when switching display modes. You'll want to run in 8 bit mode for right now. 640x480 is nice, but if you have bad eyes, 512x384 would be easier to read. Don't try to use 768x576 right yet as it's too tall for the current refresh routines. Also includes other minor updates, but I forget what beyond the video hack.

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siulmagic · Joined: 06 Jul 2008 Posts: 42

hmm my text is unreadable i got in 8 bit mode 640x480 60hz
using mac os 7.5

edit btw no matter what color deph it always looks black and white with every version iv tested

edit2: ok nvm i had to change setting inside mac in order to make it readable all is good now =D

jas0nuk · Joined: 27 Apr 2006 Posts: 137

Oh wow, just installed 8.1... works a charm :D
Could you add a button to accelerate the mouse movement?

edit: Meh, in fact I will if I can get it to compile.

edit 2: Wow, that was painful. xD Finally got it to compile then I ended up with an 80020148 error, probably because of the stuff I had to comment out. I really need to update my SDK.

edit 3: Installed the win32 SDK from http://forums.ps2dev.org/viewtopic.php?t=9812, and copied over the 4.01 M33-2 SDK. Now it compiles fine until the end, where I get the error