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2    Basilisk II
3    A 68k Macintosh emulator
4  
5 <  Copyright (C) 1997-2001 Christian Bauer et al.
5 >  Copyright (C) 1997-2002 Christian Bauer et al.
6  
7  
8   License
# Line 26 | Line 26 | Basilisk II has currently been ported to
26      IRIX 6.5)
27    - AmigaOS 3.x
28    - Windows NT 4.0 (mostly works under Windows 95/98, too)
29 +  - Mac OS X 10.1
30  
31   Some features of Basilisk II:
32    - Emulates either a Mac Classic (which runs MacOS 0.x thru 7.5)
# Line 68 | Line 69 | The settings are stored in a text file:
69   BeOS:
70    /boot/home/config/settings/BasiliskII_prefs
71  
72 < Unix:
72 > Unix, Mac OS X:
73    ~/.basilisk_ii_prefs
74  
75   AmigaOS:
# Line 284 | Line 285 | screen <video mode>
285      application via Alt-Tab, Basilisk II is put in "snooze" mode (i.e. MacOS
286      is frozen).
287  
288 +
289 +  Mac OS X:
290 +    The "video mode" is one of the following:
291 +      win/<width>/<height>
292 +      win/<width>/<height>/<bits per pixel>
293 +        A refreshed (and buffered) [and very slow] Quartz window.
294 +        The default <bits> is 32, which is the only depth currently supported.
295 +      full/<width>/<height>
296 +      full/<width>/<height>/<bits per pixel>
297 +        A CGDirectDisplay full screen mode. <bits> can currently be 8, 16 or 32.
298 +        If not specified, the default is 32. There is currently no way to switch
299 +        between the Mac OS X and Basilisk II display, but Apple-Option-Escape
300 +        instantly and safely terminates the Basilisk II program.
301 +      opengl/<width>/<height>
302 +      opengl/<width>/<height>/<bits per pixel>
303 +        Currently unimplemented, will be a fast windowed mode.
304 +
305 +
306   seriala <serial port description>
307  
308    This item describes the serial port to be used as Port A (Modem Port)
# Line 555 | Line 574 | Unix:
574      the number of key events sent to MacOS for each wheel movement (the
575      number of lines to scroll).
576  
577 +  ignoresegv <"true" or "false">
578 +
579 +    Set this to "true" to ignore illegal memory accesses. The default
580 +    is "false". This feature is only implemented on the following
581 +    platforms: Linux/x86, Linux/ppc, Darwin/ppc.
582 +
583   AmigaOS:
584  
585    sound <sound output description>
# Line 762 | Line 787 | Contributions by (in alphabetical order)
787   - Jürgen Lachmann <juergen_lachmann@t-online.de>: AmigaOS CyberGraphX support
788   - Samuel Lander <blair_sp@hotmail.com>: tile-based window refresh code
789   - David Lawrence <davidl@jlab.org>: incremental window refresh code
790 + - Nigel Pearson <nigel@ind.tansu.com.au>: Mac OS X port
791   - Lauri Pesonen <lpesonen@nic.fi>: Windows NT port
792   - Bernd Schmidt <crux@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>: UAE 68k emulation
793   - and others...
# Line 787 | Line 813 | versions of Basilisk II and MacOS being
813   the exact steps to reproduce the bug, etc.):
814    http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=2123&atid=102123
815  
816 + I also strongly suggest reading this before posting a bug report:
817 +  http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html
818 +
819  
820   Author
821   ------
822  
823 < You can contact me at <Christian.Bauer@uni-mainz.de>. Don't send bug
824 < reports, send fixes. Ports to other platforms are also very welcome.
825 < Please contact me before you intend to make major changes to the source.
826 < You might be working on something that I have already done, or I may have
827 < different ideas about the Right Way to do it.
828 <
829 < Questions about ROM files will not be answered. There is also no point in
830 < sending me questions etc. that are specific to the Windows port of
831 < Basilisk II. I don't have Windows and can't say anything about that.
832 < Ask Lauri Pesonen instead.
823 > You can contact me at <Christian.Bauer@uni-mainz.de>, but please don't do
824 > so unless absolutely necessary. I'm maintaining Basilisk II in my spare
825 > time and am not able to provide technical support for everyone. If you have
826 > questions, consider posting them to one of the support forums mentioned
827 > below.
828 >
829 > You are encouraged to contact me personally when
830 > - you have bug fixes or small enhancements for the code
831 > - you want to port Basilisk II to another platform
832 > - you want to discuss technical issues
833 > - you intend to make major changes to the source; you might be working on
834 >   something that I have already done, or I may have different ideas about
835 >   the Right Way to do it
836 >
837 > There is no point in sending me questions about
838 > - ROM files and how/where to get them
839 > - versions of Basilisk II that run on operating systems other than Unix,
840 >   BeOS and AmigaOS. If you are using any other operating system, there's
841 >   no point in asking me how to to X or why Y doesn't work because I won't
842 >   know either. Instead, you should look in the "Acknowledgements" section
843 >   of this manual to find the person responsible. For example, if your
844 >   question is specific to the Windows operating system, ask Lauri Pesonen.
845 >   I don't have Windows and can't answer your questions and I'm too lazy to
846 >   forward mail to Lauri myself. In any case, it would probably be better
847 >   to post your questions to a public forum as it will get a much wider
848 >   audience there.
849  
850  
851   Support
# Line 821 | Line 866 | There is also a mailing list for Basilis
866   And another mailing list for Basilisk II developers:
867    http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/basilisk-devel
868  
869 + Some general advice about asking technical support questions can be found at
870 +  http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
871 +
872 + Keeping this in mind will greatly increase your chances of getting a useful
873 + answer.
874 +
875  
876   History
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