Re: [B2-devel] Can't run BasiliskII on Fedora Core 3 x86

[Matthias S. <th...@sp...>]

Tomek Jerzykowski wrote :

> Are you absolutely sure that you are using the newest code from CVS? I
used
> to have such problems with SheepShaver, not Basilisk some time ago, but
it
> has already been fixed (x86_64). Maybe only in SheepShaver code?

Hmmm, I've got a stupid question, then. When I looked at SheepShaver, I
understood that it was only relevant on ppc machines. Was I wrong? Here's
the first paragraph of the doc/index.html file in the SheepShaver CVS tree
:

"SheepShaver is a MacOS run-time environment for Linux that allows you to
run
MacOS applications at native speed inside the Linux multitasking
environment
on  PowerPC-based  Linux systems. This means that both Linux and MacOS
applications can run at the same time and data can be exchanged between
them."

Does SheepShaver run on x86 and x86-64? How does it position itself
compared to BasiliskII, pretty much like VMWare (-> BasiliskII) and Wine
(-> SheepShaver)?

I'm a bit confused.

Back on topic, I recall having seen posts about x86_64 fixes for
SheepShaver, as well as builds that supposedly fixed the "black screen"
some people were seeing. This "black screen" seems to be what I'm getting
with older BasiliskII releases, so if anyone has more info on that
particular problem and how to work around it, I'd really appreciate it.
Backports of the asm fixes to BasiliskII for testing would also be very
welcome :-)

Matthias

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