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by sentient06
Sun Sep 28, 2014 7:35 pm
Forum: Basilisk II
Topic: Preferences manager for OSX
Replies: 44
Views: 37823

Re: Preferences manager for OSX

Thanks again emendelson. The fixed version is here.

https://github.com/sentient06/Medusa/re ... g/v1.2.0b2

How embarrassing! :mrgreen:

I re-factored the code for the app's data storage and I forgot the most simple part: to check if the data file exists at all. Now it should be fine.
by sentient06
Sun Sep 28, 2014 7:05 pm
Forum: Basilisk II
Topic: Preferences manager for OSX
Replies: 44
Views: 37823

Re: Preferences manager for OSX

This sounds terrific. I'm sorry to report that it crashes on my MacBook Air running the latest Mavericks. Here's the report that gets generated, if it's of any use to you: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/271144/medusareport.txt If you've downloaded it, or if it's no use to you, please let me kn...
by sentient06
Sun Sep 28, 2014 12:25 pm
Forum: Basilisk II
Topic: Preferences manager for OSX
Replies: 44
Views: 37823

Re: Preferences manager for OSX

Hello, I am glad to announce a new beta of my Medusa application, version 1.2b. I would like to ask Snow Leopard users to give a feedback. My old Macbook 2008 is sick and in the hospital, so I only managed to test on Mavericks! I am specially concerned about some new images I added that work fine fo...
by sentient06
Wed Sep 24, 2014 4:15 pm
Forum: Mini vMac and Other Mac Emulators
Topic: Compile custom variations on Mini vMac
Replies: 4
Views: 11577

Re: Compile custom variations on Mini vMac

Mmmm can't help much, I'm on a mac and it generates an XCode project. It worked when I tested.

Did you try an older version of Visual Studio?
by sentient06
Wed Dec 04, 2013 11:04 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Architecture of Classic Mac OS
Replies: 14
Views: 14921

Re: Architecture of Classic Mac OS

While researching about QEMU I came across this page: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2011-08/msg02378.html Give it a look, it is an email by Natalia Portillo answering a guy who wants to emulate Linux 68k in a Macintosh virtual machine. She explains why it doesn't make much sense beca...
by sentient06
Wed Nov 27, 2013 7:52 am
Forum: QEMU
Topic: Mac OS 7.5 - 9.0.4?
Replies: 3
Views: 7393

Re: Mac OS 7.5 - 9.0.4?

Oh yes.. office crashes because of memory issues, yeah? Can't the QEMU emulation be done without MMU, though? Even to pair with SheepShaver, it would be nice. By the way, I found this nice text by Natalia Portillo on Macintosh emulation, worth reading: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2...
by sentient06
Tue Nov 26, 2013 9:18 pm
Forum: QEMU
Topic: Mac OS 7.5 - 9.0.4?
Replies: 3
Views: 7393

Mac OS 7.5 - 9.0.4?

Are there any information on running the same OSes supported by SheepShaver on QEMU? I am trying to find more information, but is really tricky to get proper results on any QEMU-related topics. I think maybe it could be more stable than SheepShaver to the point we can use, say, Office 2001 or things...
by sentient06
Thu Nov 21, 2013 2:22 pm
Forum: Mini vMac and Other Mac Emulators
Topic: What's with Fusion?
Replies: 5
Views: 4765

What's with Fusion?

Are there any news about Fusion 3 in the past few years? First, I am surprised it is not an open-source emulator (or is it?). I used a few years ago and back then it looked quite fast and stable and the "company" that "offers" it doesn't seem to have a nice "market share&quo...
by sentient06
Fri Nov 15, 2013 7:17 am
Forum: Basilisk II
Topic: Preferences manager for OSX
Replies: 44
Views: 37823

Re: Preferences manager for OSX

Ah! Sure thing. However, I feel like making an editor for this keycodes file too. Is there any documentation for it? Like a dictionary of codes and correspondent keys or things similar? Anyway, the ability to simply refer to the file will be simple enough, so I added to the requests list. https://gi...
by sentient06
Thu Nov 14, 2013 11:23 am
Forum: Basilisk II
Topic: Preferences manager for OSX
Replies: 44
Views: 37823

Re: Preferences manager for OSX

Hi there, thank you all for the feedback, is really encouraging! I am working on amplifying the ROM recognition code in order to properly support SheepShaver. I am also documenting SheepShaver's preferences in order to write the files correctly. (https://github.com/sentient06/Medusa/wiki/Sheepshaver...
by sentient06
Thu Nov 14, 2013 9:56 am
Forum: SheepShaver
Topic: Model ID in SS
Replies: 2
Views: 2409

Model ID in SS

Do you guys think we could implement the possibility of reporting another model id in SheepShaver just like in Basilisk II? It would be good to cheat a few installers and stuff like that. We could report some similar models and if the value is too alien, fall back to Gestalt 67. I was reading the ro...
by sentient06
Mon Nov 11, 2013 8:13 am
Forum: SheepShaver
Topic: Which ROM is supported by SheepShaver
Replies: 10
Views: 10146

Re: Which ROM is supported by SheepShaver

Hey 24bit, I already checked all new world checksums from Balrog's collection. In fact, I do have some hashes he doesn't. I need to double-check the old world, though. As for this week I found 2 checkums not in that list. :mrgreen: My Mac OS 8.1 Profiler says SheepShaver is reporting gestalt #67. Ap...
by sentient06
Sun Nov 10, 2013 10:47 am
Forum: SheepShaver
Topic: Which ROM is supported by SheepShaver
Replies: 10
Views: 10146

Re: Which ROM is supported by SheepShaver

Sorry about resurrecting a 4 year old topic, but... Do you guys have the checksum of these ROMs? I am looking for nearly all of these! Very difficult to find. The New World ROMs checksum is the md5 of the file. This version 4.9.1 has no information anywhere, I would really appreciate any help so I c...
by sentient06
Fri Nov 08, 2013 8:45 am
Forum: Mini vMac and Other Mac Emulators
Topic: Executor: Reverse engineering Macintosh ROMs?
Replies: 11
Views: 9609

Re: Executor: Reverse engineering Macintosh ROMs?

I just stumbled on this page by accident: http://www.myoldmac.net/cgi-data/forum/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=494&sid=4f8ffa851c321ba76c8c5d3d5fc3b3ea "At the same time, a software team reverse-engineered the ROM, based on the 'Inside Mac' specifications. I was a consultant for that team and even...
by sentient06
Thu Nov 07, 2013 2:17 pm
Forum: SheepShaver
Topic: Sheepshaver's technical manual
Replies: 2
Views: 2478

Sheepshaver's technical manual

Is there any technical manual for SS as it is for B2?

I wanted to learn more details on which processors and ROMs are supported and how they relate to the host machine, etc, without digging into the code. =(

Btw, the B2 manual is here, it is a really good introduction: http://basilisk.cebix.net/TECH
by sentient06
Thu Nov 07, 2013 2:02 pm
Forum: Mini vMac and Other Mac Emulators
Topic: Executor: Reverse engineering Macintosh ROMs?
Replies: 11
Views: 9609

Re: Executor: Reverse engineering Macintosh ROMs?

That's an interesting subject! I remember to read somewhere about Compaq and the ROMs from IBM. As far as I understood, they reverse-engineered the IBM ROM for real and created a very detailed documentation on how it should work and behave. After that, they hired a group of developers to assemble a ...
by sentient06
Fri Nov 01, 2013 10:16 pm
Forum: Mini vMac and Other Mac Emulators
Topic: Executor: Reverse engineering Macintosh ROMs?
Replies: 11
Views: 9609

Executor: Reverse engineering Macintosh ROMs?

I was researching the topic and I came to several references to ARDI's Executor. As far as I understand, Executor only.. "translates" the binaries used by old macs, behaving, sort of, as if there were a ROM there. However, I read some sites suggesting they actually reverse engineered a Mac...
by sentient06
Wed Oct 30, 2013 8:17 pm
Forum: Basilisk II
Topic: Mac OS 8.1 will not boot
Replies: 6
Views: 5297

Re: Mac OS 8.1 will not boot

Indeed, unless you re-format to plain HFS inside emulator. The 68k macs won't boot HFS+ drives. Refer to this page for more info: https://support.apple.com/kb/HT1604 680x0 Specific Issues 680x0 processor computers cannot use a hard disk initialized with Mac OS Extended format as the start up disk, b...
by sentient06
Tue Oct 15, 2013 12:17 am
Forum: Basilisk II
Topic: Preferences manager for OSX
Replies: 44
Views: 37823

Re: Preferences manager for OSX

Brilliant stuff! Very clever. I will get a few hours stuck in an airport Wednesday, I will try go get this functionality into the next build in the meantime. =D Edit I changed the code to limit 1 result: strings ./file.dmg | grep "\(System Software [0-7]\)\|\(Mac OS [7-9]\)" -m 1 | uniq I ...
by sentient06
Mon Oct 14, 2013 11:18 am
Forum: Basilisk II
Topic: Preferences file - updated documentation
Replies: 3
Views: 3488

Re: Preferences file - updated documentation

Sure, go ahead!
by sentient06
Fri Oct 11, 2013 12:01 pm
Forum: Basilisk II
Topic: Preferences manager for OSX
Replies: 44
Views: 37823

Re: Preferences manager for OSX

Wow! That's great! Can I borrow it from you? =D
by sentient06
Thu Oct 10, 2013 8:48 pm
Forum: Basilisk II
Topic: Preferences manager for OSX
Replies: 44
Views: 37823

Re: Preferences manager for OSX

Yes, I thought in both getting default settings from the ROM file and the disk images. The ROM file information the app fetches from hardcoded information. So it gets the checksum, finds out which ROM is that based in a big list and it can guess: - Which gestalt models use that ROM (it can set model...
by sentient06
Thu Oct 10, 2013 8:22 pm
Forum: Basilisk II
Topic: Basilisk with Appletalk support; ML and upwards
Replies: 40
Views: 82054

Re: Basilisk for OSX Mountain Lion and upwards with Appletal

Aha!

Deleted .basilisk_ii_xpram. Looks like everything is fine now.

Good job guys!
by sentient06
Thu Oct 10, 2013 7:57 pm
Forum: Basilisk II
Topic: Basilisk with Appletalk support; ML and upwards
Replies: 40
Views: 82054

Re: Basilisk for OSX Mountain Lion and upwards with Appletal

Got an error. Unrelated to ethernet, though, is Basilisk's. Basilisk II V1.0 by Christian Bauer et al. Reading ROM file... Invalid thread_state flavor = 0. Not forwarding BasiliskII(615,0xac4caa28) malloc: *** error for object 0x126a000: pointer being freed was not allocated *** set a breakpoint in ...
by sentient06
Thu Oct 10, 2013 4:01 pm
Forum: Basilisk II
Topic: Preferences file - updated documentation
Replies: 3
Views: 3488

Preferences file - updated documentation

Hello. I don't want to spam you guys, but I couldn't find any topic specific for this subject, so I created yet another one. I'll disappear for some weeks since I am moving to another country, so I want to share all the progress of my researches right now. I finished (in the sense of organising, not...