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Post #9 by CC_333
Source Forum68kMLA
CategoryNetworking
Post DateSat, 11 Oct 2014 - 02:20
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/fix-networking-in-basilik-ii-under-linux.181/
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One thing I'd like to see is more accurate disk emulation. Basilisk II and SheepShaver seem to present disks as giant floppy drives, which make for some weird software issues for programs that require "real" disks (usually formatting software and such). Maybe make it switchable between SCSI and IDE for maximum compatibility?

Another thing would be to use real hardware disks when possible. Like, the emulator can use a real HFS formatted disk connected to a real port (either IDE or USB) on the host computer (in addition to image files, of course). Small-ish SD cards would be ideal for this, and with a properly configured SCSI card, it can make diagnosing, formatting, and using SCSI disks possible without a real Mac (early versions of BII did this, but it got lost sometime during the last 9 or so years since those early versions were current).

And proper MMU emulation on SheepShaver would be superb, as it would allow for the full range of PPC Mac OSes, from System 7.1.2 through Mac OS 9.2.2.

And, except maybe the MMU, most of this should be relatively trivial.

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