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Revision: 1.13
Committed: 2012-04-01T15:07:53Z (12 years, 1 month ago) by asvitkine
Branch: MAIN
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|Description: fix to the documentation
| This patch aims at improving the man page.
|Author: Giulio Paci <giuliopaci@gmail.com>
|Forwarded: no
|Last-Update: 2012-03-04

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# Content
1 .TH BasiliskII 1 "January, 2002"
2 .SH NAME
3 BasiliskII \- a 68k Macintosh emulator
4 .SH SYNOPSIS
5 .B BasiliskII
6 [\-\-display
7 .IR display-name ]
8 [\-\-break
9 .IR offset ]
10 [\-\-rominfo]
11 .SH DESCRIPTION
12 .B Basilisk II
13
14 is an Open Source 68k Macintosh emulator. That is, it enables you to
15 run 68k MacOS software on you computer, even if you are using a
16 different operating system. However, you still need a copy of MacOS
17 and a Macintosh ROM image to use Basilisk II.
18
19 .B Basilisk II
20 :
21 .TP
22 - Emulates either a Mac Classic (which runs MacOS 0.x thru 7.5) or a Mac II series machine (which runs MacOS 7.x, 8.0 and 8.1), depending on the ROM being used
23 .TP
24 - Color video display
25 .TP
26 - CD quality sound output
27 .TP
28 - Floppy disk driver (only 1.44MB disks supported)
29 .TP
30 - Driver for HFS partitions and hardfiles
31 .TP
32 - CD-ROM driver with basic audio functions
33 .TP
34 - Easy file exchange with the host OS via a "Host Directory Tree" icon on the Mac desktop
35 .TP
36 - Ethernet driver
37 .TP
38 - Serial drivers
39 .TP
40 - SCSI Manager (old-style) emulation
41 .TP
42 - Emulates extended ADB keyboard and 3-button mouse
43 .TP
44 - Uses UAE 68k emulation or (under AmigaOS and NetBSD/m68k) real 68k processor
45 .SH OPTIONS
46 .TP
47 .BI "\-\-display " display-name
48 specifies the display to use; see
49 .BR X (1)
50 .TP
51 .BI "\-\-break " offset
52 specifies a ROM offset where a breakpoint will be placed (for debugging)
53 .TP
54 .B \-\-rominfo
55 causes Basilisk II to print some information about the ROM being used on
56 startup (for debugging)
57 .TP
58 .B \-\-help
59 shows a complete list of options
60 .SH FILES
61 .TP
62 .I /usr/share/BasiliskII/keycodes
63 X server keycodes definitions.
64 .TP
65 .I /usr/share/BasiliskII/fbdevices
66 Framebuffer device specifications.
67 .TP
68 .I ~/.basilisk_ii_prefs
69 User-specific configuration file.
70 .TP
71 .I ~/.basilisk_ii_xpram
72 Contents of Mac non-volatile RAM.
73 .SH BUGS
74 Several. See the included "TODO" file.
75 .SH SEE ALSO
76 http://www.uni-mainz.de/~bauec002/B2Main.html (Basilisk II homepage)
77 .SH AUTHOR
78 Christian Bauer <Christian.Bauer@uni-mainz.de>
79 .SH COPYRIGHT
80 Copyright \(co 1997-2004 Christian Bauer et al.
81
82 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
83 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
84 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
85 (at your option) any later version.
86
87 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
88 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
89 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
90 GNU General Public License for more details.
91
92 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
93 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
94 Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.