Hi, compacters! Perhaps this is a bit off-topic. If it is, please tell me so.
In the last time, I've been trying to emulate a 68030 Mac inside my Windoze box, in order to run StuffIt 5 and being able to convert software stored in that format into a form readable by my little Classic. I have tried two different Macintosh emulators for Windows, with different results. Executor 2.11 runs fine, but it only emulates a "superset" of System 6 (System 6 with a small quantity of enhancements from System 7). And since it uses its own OS (it does not use Apple's MacOS), it doesn't provide some undocumented system calls, and thus many apps fail to run inside it (StuffIt 5 between them). And there is another difficulty: it's shareware, and I don't want to pay a cent for a thing that works only sometimes. The other option I know is Basilisk II, a portable Mac emulator that has Linux/Unix/*nix, BeOS and Win32 ports. This emulator seems to be good. It does emulate a complete Mac at the hardware level (it requires a ROM file and a set of OS setup disks or a HFV volume with MacOS inside it), and they say that it runs almost everything. But I have a problem. Since it needs a ROM image file, the only one I own is my Classic's one. I have dumped it to a file, copied it to the PC via a 1.44 Mb disk, and found that Basilisk II doesn't like it :-( . When i select it, Basilisk says that the Classic emulation is currently broken (not implemented?). Does anybody know where can I find a Color Classic ROM image? I think Apple won't like the answer to this question, so please reply in private. If somebody with a Color Classic want to make the ROM image but doesn't have the tool, I can provide him with the program I used to dump my Classic's ROM. Is there another good free emulator for Windoze I don't currently know? It should be able to emulate at least a 68030, but I bet all emulators can nowadays run 68040 code without trouble... Greetings and thank you in advance, Antonio Rodr�guez (Grijan) -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
