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Basilisk II PSP - Macintosh Emulator

Posted Oct 10, 2005 at 09:02PM by Clay C. Listed in: Homebrew Emulators, Macintosh
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ChaosKnight has released a very nice port of Basilisk II for the PSP, called Basilisk II PSP. Basilisk II is an open-source 68k Macintosh emulator which will run systems 7.5.5 through 7.6.1 to be the easiest to run. Like the port of Bochs x86 emulator, Basilisk has the same principle. Simply put the emulator eboots in the correct PSP folder (the one without the % sign.) The files included are Macintosh 7.5.5, which can be downloaded from apple.com as well. You will need to supply your own LEGAL copy of mac.rom for this to work. Here is what ChaosKnight had to say about this release: ?

What Works
- Emulation
- Video (wrong colors, slow)
- Input (start = return, mouse = analog + X = click)

What Doesn't
- Ethernet
- Audio
- Keyboard
- External Filesystem (ability to use flash0:, mc0:, etc...)
- Serial (no irda0: support yet)

You can get it in our PSP Download section [here].
You can get the source in our PSP Download section [here].

Currently, this emulator will only run on PSPs with firmware version 1.0 or 1.50. If you do not know which firmware version your PSP has, or if you need help installing this application/game on your PSP, check one of our many informative FAQs. If you have a higher firmware version than 1.50 on your PSP, you cannot run this program. To downgrade the firmware from a version higher than 1.50, please visit [here].


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   by Anonymous (Unregistered) - 2005-10-10

Can you play Mac games on this?

   by Nate (Unregistered) - 2005-10-10

This is pretty incredible - I love the idea. Can't wait to see where it goes, an see if we can't get some cool productivity applications for the PSP on top of all the great gaming options.

I don't think Palm and PPC OS are really that great for the PSP because of the lack of touchscreen - even if there were a mouse, it wouldn't be the same. Better to go with an OS that is designed for mouse input.

I'm still wondering why we haven't seen linux on PSP yet (or did I miss the announcement?). Not that I'm some huge linux geek, but it would be nice to have an OS that didn't require some gray-area mucking around and that already had lots of free applications for it.

   by Anonymous (Unregistered) - 2005-10-10

WOH. the first time i downloaded this, i just cpoyed everything to my ms and it worked fine. i deleted it to make room, and just now downloaded it agin. now it says it cant load the mac.rom file. help please

   by Anonymous (Unregistered) - 2005-10-10

they removed mac.rom from the archive, so it doesnt run out of the box ghhhey

   by TracerTong (Unregistered) - 2005-10-10

WOW!!!
This takes me back to my Quadra 650 days!!!
Hopefully, this will develop into something VERY special. It has the potential

   by Anonymous (Unregistered) - 2005-10-10

tru tru...

this is an OS...
i wondering now if windows mobile could be emulated or the Palm OS...

   by elroy (Unregistered) - 2005-10-10

here's a quarda 650 rom: http://www.oldos.org/files/macdl/quadra650.rom

But you are only allowed to download it if you actually own a quadra 650.. so don't click the link unless you do!

   by Anonymous (Unregistered) - 2005-10-10

this is really neat, except it is always crashing for me using the rom that elroy linked to.

is it only a specific rom that works?

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   by Anonymous (Unregistered) - 2005-10-10

you have to rename it to mac.rom

works great thanks!

   by Anonymous (Unregistered) - 2005-10-10

wow that whole red screen thing scared me a little, (paranoid) but it works great. REALLY FAST!!! now if only we can get some better stuff running like DSL or a faster version of 95. that would be great. Nice work tho.

   by Anonymous (Unregistered) - 2005-10-10

No applications ?

   by elroy (Unregistered) - 2005-10-10

erm... any particular reason why my last two (and, I believe, useful) comments were deleted?

just asking

   by Maxcre8 (Unregistered) - 2005-10-10

very very cool :D

but is it posible to speed up the mouse?? it's so slow..

   by Shadow (Unregistered) - 2005-10-10

ok well bigpoppa go f urself. b/c the guy who ported did a lot of work. Also I cant wait until Mac OS 7.6.0 becomes free. Then we can play Warrcraft 2 on psp... Hells yes

   by Anonymous (Unregistered) - 2005-10-10

I'd love to be able to play Escape Velocity on this someday. Just waiting for keyboard support...........

   by Anonymous (Unregistered) - 2005-10-10

This is definitely the real deal. I have Basilisk II running on my PC and I copied over some programs to the SYSTEM.DSK file that came with the download package. They work as expected. I also copied over the Mouse control panel, which allowed me to speed up the mouse cursor a tad, but strangely only when moving it diagonally. It was still slow moving in straight lines. Also, the setting doesn't seem to be retained after a reboot, even though the setting on the control panel seems to still be there. You have to go back and select it again for it to take. Still, a VERY impressive first start.

   by Anonymous (Unregistered) - 2005-10-10

Forget about downloading 7.5.3, the download comes with a nice 7.5.5 system.dsk file in the BasiliskIIPSP Folder. Any OS up to (but not including) 7.6 can be distributed free of charge.

Just find yourself a nice quadra rom, rename it to mac.rom, put it in there with the rest of the basilisk files and start her up. should work.

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   by Anonymous (Unregistered) - 2005-10-10

hey I downloaded this and stuck it on my psp then went to game>memorystick and just found 2 corrupt icons.

what do I need to get this running?
also do I need to own macintosh 7 to do this legally?

if I do, then are their any free os's that I can use in this?

   by joesnose (Unregistered) - 2005-10-10

this kicks ass

   by vanquished (Unregistered) - 2005-10-10

hey guys, please help me, i searched all over apple.com and i cant find Macintosh 7.5.5, can anyone link me?

   by Anonymous (Unregistered) - 2005-10-10

http://www.oldos.org/files/macdl/quadra650.rom

this seems to help, just rename it to mac.rom and put it in your basillikpsp folder without the %

   by Anonymous (Unregistered) - 2005-10-10

How do you go about opening the .DSK file?

   by Anonymous (Unregistered) - 2005-10-10

waahooo nice Program, but the mouse pointer is very slow. So that i sleep.

   by Anonymous (Unregistered) - 2005-10-10

and another "http://mailgate.supereva.com/comp/comp.emulators.mac.executor/msg00371.html"

theres a link to another rom on this page, again rename to mac.rom

   by Ryan (Unregistered) - 2005-10-10

Pretty much all of Apple's obsolete software is available here: http://www.info.apple.com/support/oldersoftwarelist.html

Get the full 7.5.3 download and then the 7.5.5 or 7.6 update to it.... at least I think. It's been over a decade.

   by Matt (Unregistered) - 2005-10-10

When i try to run it it crashes on strart up, i think ive done everything right like i renamed the file i downloaded from those link mac.rom and i have everything it says i need please help

   by bob (Unregistered) - 2005-10-10

hello whenever i run the mac software from the gta emulator mac always says supicious hard oath detected press the a button, i press it and it says ERROR: not enough free memory. how do i solve this? instant message me (battlezone77) email me (skyzero77@hotmail.com)

thanks

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   by bigpoppa (Unregistered) - 2005-10-10

Props to Christian Bauer who is behind the whole Basilisk II projct, not just the guy who ported it to P2P.

   by Anonymous (Unregistered) - 2005-10-10

Is there any thing else i have to get for this to work? Because its not working for me, and when i load it i get a error saying somthing didnt work.
I know where to put the files, it just doesnt work!!

   by Anonymous (Unregistered) - 2005-10-10

UTTERLY Amazing...keep up the good work man.....continue with this project ...excellente.



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