Because of litigation trolls, and the fact that all of these old decrepit websites keep changing hands from time to time, I will not post hotlinks. You need a file called “MacStartup.img” and a file called “Performa.rom”. Apparently some web sights convert two dash symbols into one long dash symbol to make your life suck)ĭespite what you might have read from other less… “helpful” instructions, Basilisk II is not ready to run yet. (make sure the following words start with two dashes: enable, enable, disable, disable. configure –enable-sdl-video –enable-sdl-audio –disable-vosf –disable-jit-compiler (I know you could just type the whole thing in, but I was worried updates would change the structure of the files so I wanted to show people what they were looking for and how to do it.) Now you should have the following command line in front of $ (including a gray basilisk.sh file, ignore this, it’s the computational equivalent of a harpy I think.

Hit F4 to leave RetroPie and find yourself staring into the bottomless blackness that is Linux.Īnd a bunch of preinstalled emulators will show up. Everything you need to actually type will be in bold. After you type in the command, hit return/enter.ĥ. And as far as I’m concerned whoever invented the command line can go shove a full sized computer keyboard up their. I am using a RaspberryPi (B+) model with RetroPie 3.4.something or other OS.ģ. I use macintosh computers so if you’re on a windows machine you’ll have to figure some stuff out own your own.

Here is as detailed a guild as I could muster:īefore I being you should know these things:ġ. So after reading approximately half of the internet and every Linux forum page published since 1992 I have discovered in just 3 short days (actually it was 56 hours not including bathroom breaks) how to successfully install Basilisk II on your raspberry pi. To make matters worse it turns out the approximately 114 online guides all have several inaccuracies, bad links, evil spirits, or ambiguous commands. So the problem is you don’t know anything about linux, or command lines, and you don’t have time to read 600 volumes explaining Bash. A Detailed guild to installing Basilisk II (BasiliskII), and actually getting it to work, on your Raspberry Pi.

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