14 Jan
2006
14 Jan
'06
9:47 p.m.
On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 00:35:34 -0500
Scott Stevens <chenmel at earthlink.net> wrote:
On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 22:20:05 -0600
Jim Leonard <trixter at oldskool.org> wrote:
I just verified that BasiliskII will run and access images of
floppy diskettes. I didn't use the Unix DD command to make the
image, I used the Winimage program on my Windows2000 machine to
image a MacOS formatted floppy and saved it to an IMA file, then
scp'd it over to NetBSD and added a line declaring the file as a
disk in .basilisk_ii_prefs and it mounted the image.
This proves something useful to me: the Winimage program (and dd
on Unix, which does the same thing) can make images of MacOS
floppies which can then easily be read into the Mac universe
through BasiliskII. I can probably run Shrinkwrap or Apples Disk
Copy utility to convert the 'images' to ShrinkWrap or DiskCopy
images any Mac can use. Note that if you make your images using
Winimage, it won't show a directory after making the image, since
Winimage only recognizes FAT directories. But the image file you
then 'blindly' save works on BasiliskII.
J. Peterson 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.
I've had great luck with BasiliskII running on Windows. Even funky
older 68K programs work (like my own "Wallpaper for the Mind", that
compiles code and jumps to it on the fly).
But how can we transfer copy-protected programs over to something the
emulator can load? I've got some music programs (Studio Session, Jam
Session) and games and other apps I'd love to introduce to the children,
but I don't want them handling the disks directly because the
copy-protected retail diskettes are the only ones I have.
> --
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