I have tested extensively BasiliskII and BasiliskII-JIT, both under Windows and Linux (see at the end the configuration used for testing). I find this emulator really amazing all in all.
Anyway, it looks the windows version is much better: I did not have a single crash or hang using Windows 2000 as host system for BasiliskII, and the serial port works great (alongside with ethernet, CDs etc.).
On the other hand, the Linux version looks having some problems. I have installed the Mandrake RPMs, because if I compile it from source, the compilation would be successful but it would not even start (segfault).
Anyway, when running it under Linux is much slower than the Windows counterpart (even with 586 optimizations and JIT !), and it happened to me often that it either hanged or crashed. Moreover under Linux the serial port control looks broken - using the same Mac HD on the same machine, under Windows FREEMIDI would correctly recognize the serial ports as Standard ports, while using Linux as host system and doing the same thing (FREEMIDI serial ports scan) will just freeze the system.
These problems happen on Linux with both II and II-JIT.
Anybody has ideas / hints for a better Linux port ?!??
Daniele
Configuration used for testing:
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- Pentium III 700 MHz with 256 Mb
- Mandrake 8.2 / Windows 2000
- Basilisk 9.3 / JIT 1.0
- MAC OS 8.1, PERFORMA 630 (64 Mb assigned)
- Freemidi 1.35
- Fullscreen (DGA with no fb for Linux)
Results:
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Linux Windows
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Speed average fast !!
serials recognized, but work great
broken
CD works works great
net works (slow) works
issues random crash none
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There hasn't been a new snapshot on the official BasiliskII site in almost a year, so I'm guessing that the chances for getting Linux performance and bug issues fixed is slim... With computers so cheap these days it looks like emulation is winding down a little.
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I have a p2 333 with 224 mb ram. I am successfully emulating mac OS 8.1 and am running super Wing commander. I found that under windows if music is on it's slower, but in linux it's more playable. I was wondering when will there be joystick support added? I've also got a problem with compilling the latest cvs. ./configure starts but the stops with this error:
checking for XF86VidModeQueryExtension in -lXxf86vm... yes
./configure: line 3138: syntax error near unexpected token `AM_PATH_GTK(1.2.0,'
./configure: line 3138: ` AM_PATH_GTK(1.2.0, ' can you fix this and update?
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I have tested extensively BasiliskII and BasiliskII-JIT, both under Windows and Linux (see at the end the configuration used for testing). I find this emulator really amazing all in all.
Anyway, it looks the windows version is much better: I did not have a single crash or hang using Windows 2000 as host system for BasiliskII, and the serial port works great (alongside with ethernet, CDs etc.).
On the other hand, the Linux version looks having some problems. I have installed the Mandrake RPMs, because if I compile it from source, the compilation would be successful but it would not even start (segfault).
Anyway, when running it under Linux is much slower than the Windows counterpart (even with 586 optimizations and JIT !), and it happened to me often that it either hanged or crashed. Moreover under Linux the serial port control looks broken - using the same Mac HD on the same machine, under Windows FREEMIDI would correctly recognize the serial ports as Standard ports, while using Linux as host system and doing the same thing (FREEMIDI serial ports scan) will just freeze the system.
These problems happen on Linux with both II and II-JIT.
Anybody has ideas / hints for a better Linux port ?!??
Daniele
Configuration used for testing:
--------------------------------
- Pentium III 700 MHz with 256 Mb
- Mandrake 8.2 / Windows 2000
- Basilisk 9.3 / JIT 1.0
- MAC OS 8.1, PERFORMA 630 (64 Mb assigned)
- Freemidi 1.35
- Fullscreen (DGA with no fb for Linux)
Results:
--------
Linux Windows
--------------------------------------------
Speed average fast !!
serials recognized, but work great
broken
CD works works great
net works (slow) works
issues random crash none
--------------------------------------------
There hasn't been a new snapshot on the official BasiliskII site in almost a year, so I'm guessing that the chances for getting Linux performance and bug issues fixed is slim... With computers so cheap these days it looks like emulation is winding down a little.
I have a p2 333 with 224 mb ram. I am successfully emulating mac OS 8.1 and am running super Wing commander. I found that under windows if music is on it's slower, but in linux it's more playable. I was wondering when will there be joystick support added? I've also got a problem with compilling the latest cvs. ./configure starts but the stops with this error:
checking for XF86VidModeQueryExtension in -lXxf86vm... yes
./configure: line 3138: syntax error near unexpected token `AM_PATH_GTK(1.2.0,'
./configure: line 3138: ` AM_PATH_GTK(1.2.0, ' can you fix this and update?