We re-run the GUI and click START.Īh the mac 'boing' and a grey screen. Now the older exe is in the Basilisk II folder.
exe file may solve the problem, we need the one in the 27-08-2008 build. Must say the OSX way of killing apps is so much less work. We click the START button and get the black screen of n the windows task manager and kill the application. For now the model id is a IIC 030 but later we will change this to a 68040 with a quadra 900 model id.
In the Volumes tab we click ADD and select the system70 book.dsk image and the disk image file we created with the HFV utility. We decide to leave off the network as it is not needed. First our optical drive is D: and we also set the windows size to 1024 x 768 and the ram size to 256mb and the rom file to use our quadra650.rom file. We can now exit the utility and run the Basilisk II GUI application which allows you to set the preferences. Ok back on track, we drag the system 753 folder to the mac 'drive' and it seems to work OK. We actually have to restore the shortcut to examine it's properties to find out the folder is actually located at "F:\bin\Dell precision 470\docs\system 753". So we delete the shortcut and now the folder has disappeared! Searching the local hard disk finds nothing. We find the folder and go to drag it to downloads but windows makes a shortcut - we don't want a frickin' shortcut we want to move the files you stupid OS. We actually go back to apple's web site! and right click as firefox will remember where the files were saved to. We go to drag the system 753 folder but it is not in downloads. Now that we have a 'hard disk' we copy the system 7.5.3 files to the blank disk image. We select File, Format New Volume and we give it a name of mac with a whopping 1gig of space and select the Basilisk II folder as the location of the 'hard disk' file. The included HSF Explorer windows utility is used to create a mac formatted 'hard drive'. Next is to create a fake blank hard drive (which is really a file that looks like a drive).
This driver allows your windows optical disc to read mac disc, pretty well essential for installing software.
Next we copy the file cdenably.sys from the Basilisk II cd-rom drivers folder to c:\windows\system32\drivers. We also get a system 7 book disk and put it in the Basilisk II folder and then download the system 7.5.3 files from apple's ftp site.
We search the old mac backups and find a quadra 650 rom file and extract it and place it in the Basilisk II folder. Ok, installed so next we download BasiliskII and extract to a folder. We decide to mess with the windows system files, recognizing the problems inherent in window's reliance on DLL's but no liking having to modify the system. If you choose to rename these files, their extension will be changed to. To prevent such conflicts, it can automatically rename the file.
The install finds that C:\Windows\system32\iconv.dll may conflict with programs that rely on GTK+ 2.
GTK (otherwise known as the GIMP toolkit) provides widgets (on screen controls) and tools to build graphical windowed applications. We used to run Basilisk on windows xp many years ago so we decide to go that route as the minimum requirements for Civilization II are an 040 mac and a few megabytes of ram.įirst is to download and install the GTK runtime environment for Windows that enables us to run software written for the X windows environment. Since the work desktop is now Windows 7 we decide to try that out. This means emulating a classic mac on some OS. Not feeling up to working so what's a guy to do? Obviously since i got rid of the last G4 OS9 machine 2 weeks ago it's time for a CIV II fix.