Fix networking in Basilik II under Linux — #11

Post #11 by neozeed

Source Forum	68kMLA
Category	Networking
Post Date	Sat, 11 Oct 2014 - 08:58
Original URL	https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/fix-networking-in-basilik-ii-under-linux.181/

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CC_333 said:
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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To do disk I'll need to pick a model and just try to emulate enough of that hardware to make the ROM happy... And mess does that now, if you can deal with it's disk formats. When using Shoebill it can use (command line) partitioned disks, which basillisk can mount. Ironically the code for mounting disks with partition tables was always there, but it was only being used for CD-ROM's.

I'm trying to get a newer cpu core into this thing, but of course that is a big goal. I've been trying to make SLiRP more stable with VC++ ... I've also added in the idletimer which works great on VC, but doesn't work great with GCC based stuff. But it's slowly getting there.