Basilisk II usage - sentient06/Medusa GitHub Wiki

Usage

Quitting: The right way to quit Basilisk II is to select the "Shut Down" menu item from the Finder's "Special" menu. You should not kill it from the shell unless it hangs. Under Unix, pressing "Esc" while holding the Ctrl key will also quit Basilisk II (in case you are using it in DGA mode and it crashed). Under Windows, try Alt-F4 (or Control-Alt-Del to log off and back on again if it crashes really badly).

Suspending: The Unix version of Basilisk II can be suspended while running in DGA mode by pressing "Tab" while holding the Ctrl key. Pressing "Space" in the "suspended" window will resume the emulation. Under BeOS, switching to a different Workspace when BasiliskII is in full-screen mode will also suspend the emulation.

Keyboard: On PC-style keyboards, "Alt" is the Mac "Command" key, while the "Windows" key is the Mac "Option" key.

Mouse: Under Unix, pressing Ctrl-F5 while the Basilisk II window is active will grab the mouse. This is needed for compatibility with some MacOS programs, especially games such as flight simulators. Press Ctrl-F5 again to return to normal mouse operation.

Floppy: Basilisk II can only handle 1.44MB MFM floppies. Depending on your platform, floppy disk changes might not be detected automatically. Under Unix, press Ctrl-F1 to mount a floppy. Under BeOS, select the appropriate "Mount" menu item or press Ctrl-F1 to mount a floppy. Under Windows, press Ctrl-Shift-F11.

HFS partitions: Having HFS partitions mounted for read-write access under Basilisk II while they are also mounted on the host OS will most likely result in volume corruption and data loss. Unmount your HFS volumes before starting Basilisk II.

ZIP drives: Iomega ZIP disks can be mounted either with the "disk" prefs item or (on platforms that support the SCSI Manager emulation of Basilisk II) by installing the IomegaWare on the Mac side. Do not use both ways simultaneously!

Hardfiles: In addition to plain images of HFS volumes, Basilisk II can also handle some types of Mac "disk image" files, as long as they are uncompressed and unencoded.

Mac Classic emulation: Sound output and Ethernet are not supported if you are using a Mac Classic ROM. Also, the video display is fixed to 512x342 in monochrome. The AmigaOS and BeOS/PPC versions of Basilisk II cannot do Mac Classic emulation.

Video resolution switching: Run-time switching of video resolutions requires the Display Manager. This is included in MacOS versions 7.6 and above, and available as a system extension for earlier MacOS versions as a free download from ftp.apple.com (look for "Display Software 2.x"). Click on "Options..." in the "Monitors" control panel to select the resolution.

Sound output: Sound output under Basilisk II requires Sound Manager 3.0 or later. This is included in MacOS versions 7.5 and above, and available as a system extension for earlier MacOS versions as a free download from ftp.apple.com. Sample rate, bit resolution and mono/stereo can be selected in the Sound control panel (section "Sound Out").

Ethernet: Basilisk II supports all Ethernet protocols. Running a protocol under Basilisk II that already runs within the host operating system on the same network card (e.g. running MacTCP under Basilisk II on a BeOS machine) may or may not work (generally, it should work, but some specific things like "ping" may not). If you have problems with FTP, try setting the FTP client to passive mode.

LocalTalk: LocalTalk is not supported by Basilisk II. There is no way of getting LocalTalk to work with the serial drivers of Basilisk II. Any attempt to activate LocalTalk will either result in a crash or revert to Ethernet.

Serial: You can use the serial ports in Basilisk II to connect to the Internet with a modem and the "MacPPP" or "Open Transport/PPP" software.