Not OT: Classic apps and the Intel Mac

On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 22:20:05 -0600 Jim Leonard <trixter at oldskool.org> wrote: The emulator can load and read floppy diskettes. Probably only HD ones, but it uses the native drives on the machine. I installed it on my machine (multiple times, on several drive images) by having BasiliskII boot from a MacOS 7.5.3 install CD. That doesn't solve your problem of copy protected original diskettes, but it's no different than a real Mac in that regard. You can virtualize the diskettes into images that it reads, and might have better luck doing that than through any 'scheme' to defeat the copy protection, (if imaging software would properly image the diskette, copy protection and all.) You'd have to try it, but the classic Unix 'dd' command method might work to copy the diskettes to image files (if you're running a Unix version of BasiliskII. I haven't tried that yet. I am running the emulator on 'image' hard drives that I define in the config file. I booted from CD, MacOS asked me to initialize the image files I had declared (I have used 50 meg, and 1200 meg image files thus far,) and then I installed MacOS on them as if they were real hard drives.