Mini vMac gets FPU emulation! — #9

Post #9 by Watchsmart

Source Forum	68kMLA
Category	Troubleshooting
Post Date	Tue, 22 Sep 2009 - 03:14
Original URL	https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/mini-vmac-gets-fpu-emulation.18628/

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Here's a build from 2008 that doesn't have the black screen:

http://www.open.ou.nl/hsp/downloads/BasiliskII_27_08_2008.zip

It is based on the older versions that you used, and is thus a bit slower (but on a modern system, the speed doesn't really matter).

I realise it hasn't been updated for several years either - perhaps it has become more buggy on newer hardware, but in it's day it was fantastic.

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Sadly, it has. At least the last time I tried it a couple of months ago.

Around 2000 I was using BasiliskII regularly in Windows. Had a pretty sweet setup. With the SCSI "emulation" I could even burn discs on my PC's CDRW using Toast. Fast forward to a couple of months ago and I wanted to try it again. Couldn't even get it to boot into MacOS. Black screen. Apparently it's a problem with nvidia cards or something. In any case, after trying a few possible fixes, I gave up and just ran the OS X version to do what I wanted to do. Sheepshaver, on the other hand, is pretty good here.