Getting Basilisk II to work on OSX Yosemite

#1 Mon, 6 Jul 2015 - 12:14 68kMLA

Hi all,

I'm trying to get Basilisk II to work with System 7.5.3, but sofar it has been an extremely frustrating experience. I am using a Macbook Pro retina with 8 GB of RAM and Yosemite 10.10.3 installed.

When setting up Basilisk, I followed these instructions to the letter: http://emaculation.com/doku.php/basiliskii_osx_setup. However, when I hit 'start' on BasiliskIIGUI, I end up with a grey screen, sometimes with a less grey banner on top. I have re-downloaded everything and started from scratch, but it produced the same result.

If anyone can help me sort this out, I'd be eternally grateful.

#2 Tue, 7 Jul 2015 - 01:05 68kMLA

Looks like Basilisk's monitor resolution is off by a lot!

Check the preference file(s) for color and resolutions and put in 800X600 or 640X480 at 256 or Thousands of colors. And then set the opening window for just a bit bigger.

#3 Thu, 9 Jul 2015 - 16:16 68kMLA

Thanks Elfen, I got Basilisk to work with 7.5.3; the only thing is that it sometimes fails to recognize my virtual hard drive as its startup volume. But with some tinkering I can get that going again.

#4 Thu, 9 Jul 2015 - 17:36 68kMLA

Congrats! As soon as I have them up and running, I need get basilisk to work on my Mac Mini's.

I notice that your boot screen is from a System 7.5 or later. What ROMs are you using?

#5 Sat, 11 Jul 2015 - 05:41 68kMLA

I have it working on my Maverick laptop, with a Quadra 950 ROM, 7.5.3 128MB RAM (I put it together last night, after I saw this thread) - the only issue that I have is that it will sadmac/freeze when I restart it. If I shut it down and start it, it runs fine. Actually a lot more stable than the sheep shaver that I have on my MacPro. If I could just find my games folder...

I agree with Elfen about the resolution, I didn't use their suggested resolution and started with 600x800 instead.

I specified a system for "any' macintosh in the installer and removed the stuff that I didn't need.

#6 Thu, 16 Jul 2015 - 12:30 68kMLA

Thanks, all. The next project will be to get a Lenovo T60 running with Basilisk II to create my own ... erm... Powerbook. Should work...