--- On Sun, 5/31/09, Marcio <[email protected]> wrote:
> I used to have Basilisk loaded up on my PC, but it was
> unreliable as
> heck. Last I checked, it wasn't being updated anymore. Has
> that changed?
Lauri Pesonen's Win32 port of Basilisk II has been abandoned for a long time.
Around about when work in it ended, someone else started from scratch on
another Win32 port, with JIT compiling.
I haven't checked out that one in a while.
If you can find Pesonen's port to download, it's very good, pretty much
complete. A Quadra 650 ROM works well, Quadra 900/950 ROM not so much.
The only real problem I ran into with Pesonen's port was it had a bug where it
wouldn't eject IDE/ATAPI or parallel port Zip disks. The drives would click but
the disk wouldn't pop out without poking the button. SCSI Zip drives worked
fine.
I never tried on Win 2000 or newer, but with Win98SE- with non-Microsoft IDE
drivers so hard drives showed by name in Device Manager instead of "generic
IDE" it was possible to format a real IDE drive and use it with Basilisk II.
Should work with a SCSI drive too. FDISK as a single FAT16 partition but DO NOT
fomat it. Get it mounted in Basilisk II and use a hacked Apple formatter. Only
the Apple one will work! 3rd party ones try to bypass the OS functions. I was
only able to make it work with a single partition.
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