Hi, I have never used a Mac emulator before but have just installed Basilisk II so I can play some classic games I used to have on my LCII. However when I try to play "Shadow Keep" it is just ridiculously fast.
How can I make my emulator run more slowly? I've looked through the forum but can't find anything that helps
PC specs:
Intel Core i7
4Gb RAM
XP Pro 64 bit
Basilisk II prefs:
disk C:\Games\BasiliskII\install.hfv
extfs
screen win/512/342
seriala COM1
serialb COM2
udptunnel false
udpport 6066
rom C:\Games\BasiliskII\quadra650.rom
bootdrive 0
bootdriver 0
ramsize 8388608
frameskip 6
modelid 5
cpu 3
fpu false
nocdrom true
nosound false
noclipconversion false
nogui false
jit true
jitfpu true
jitdebug false
jitcachesize 8192
jitlazyflush true
jitinline true
keyboardtype 5
keycodes false
mousewheelmode 1
mousewheellines 3
ignoresegv false
idlewait true
enableextfs true
debugextfs false
extdrives CDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
pollmedia true
etherpermanentaddress true
ethermulticastmode 0
routerenabled false
ftp_port_list 21
portfile0 C:\B2TEMP0.OUT
portfile1 C:\B2TEMP1.OUT
Too fast!
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Disable the JIT (this JIT dramatically makes emulation faster, turn it off for max slownewss) - then adjust the Mac's refresh rate, also try an older PC, slow down the Mac by loading it with extensions will never need, or try another emulator. SheepShaver emulates a more complex Power Mac which will be slower. Or the older build of Basilisk, or even SoftMac unoptimized ;)
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If you check this page, you will see that without JIT, Basilisk is much slower, as ipalindromei said. SoftMac is slow, too... but it doesn't support sound.
http://emaculation.com/doku.php/68k_tests
Results include:
Installing an Application
The test required the emulators to install Wordperfect 3.5. Here's the results:
SoftMac 2008: 10.8 seconds
SoftMac XP: 9.7 seconds
Basilisk II JIT R5: 3.3 seconds
Basilisk II JIT R3: 3.2 seconds
Basilisk II .9: 11.2 seconds
and
Stuffit Test One
...Marathon III Infinity, which is 35.6 MB in size and contains a number of individual files. I expanded the archive in each emulator using Stuffit 5.5. Here are the results:
SoftMac 2008: 7 minutes, 16 seconds
SoftMac XP: 7 minutes, 9 seconds
Basilisk II JIT R5: 2 minutes, 4 seconds
Basilisk II JIT R3: 2 minutes, 18 seconds
Basilisk II .9: 7 minutes, 25 seconds
http://emaculation.com/doku.php/68k_tests
Results include:
Installing an Application
The test required the emulators to install Wordperfect 3.5. Here's the results:
SoftMac 2008: 10.8 seconds
SoftMac XP: 9.7 seconds
Basilisk II JIT R5: 3.3 seconds
Basilisk II JIT R3: 3.2 seconds
Basilisk II .9: 11.2 seconds
and
Stuffit Test One
...Marathon III Infinity, which is 35.6 MB in size and contains a number of individual files. I expanded the archive in each emulator using Stuffit 5.5. Here are the results:
SoftMac 2008: 7 minutes, 16 seconds
SoftMac XP: 7 minutes, 9 seconds
Basilisk II JIT R5: 2 minutes, 4 seconds
Basilisk II JIT R3: 2 minutes, 18 seconds
Basilisk II .9: 7 minutes, 25 seconds
Sure MiniVMac is a very good choice.
If your games are all right with a small monochrome screen, give it a try.
MiniVMac's MacII emulation is in progress and looks good.
The ASC emulation is missing howerver, so there will be no sound.
Fusion_PC can have 256 colors (at least), sound and rather big screens - the bigger the screen, the slower the apps.
DOSBox can safely allocate 31MB or 63MB as a maximum. Enough for Fusion and most old games.
See also: http://www.emaculation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6778
Best wishes!
If your games are all right with a small monochrome screen, give it a try.
MiniVMac's MacII emulation is in progress and looks good.
The ASC emulation is missing howerver, so there will be no sound.
Fusion_PC can have 256 colors (at least), sound and rather big screens - the bigger the screen, the slower the apps.
DOSBox can safely allocate 31MB or 63MB as a maximum. Enough for Fusion and most old games.
See also: http://www.emaculation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6778
Best wishes!
Re: Too fast!
Late to the party, but I just got shadow keep running on Basilisk II. I was able to slow the game down by opening it up (first by mounting the game .dsk file as a volume inside the BSII GUI), opening the drive on the desktop, and opening shadow keep, clicking the black/white picture of a dragon, the going to file -> new quest. Once the game loaded, I clicked the 'speed' option (just left of the character image) and changed the speed to the slowest setting. Now my character moves at a reasonable pace and I'm not getting insta killed by baddies.
Hope that helps.
Hope that helps.