Any questions about SheepShaver or OS 9?

[reukiodo]

I use BasiliskII myself.
have it running in a Raspberry-pi 3, in a MacClassic case. It serves a gopher server internally for fun and learning.
Uptime is 35 days, Whoo whoo !
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Do you have a witeup of the hardware installation and connection? What are you using to drive the display? How are all the ports exposed to the rear?

 

[galgot]

Do you have a witeup of the hardware installation and connection? What are you using to drive the display? How are all the ports exposed to the rear?

Well, it’s asked so nicely… lots of questions without even a "please"... anyways.
I don’t have a write up. Did that mod some years ago…
But here is what I remember from how I set it up.

hardware wise, The R-Pi 3 is connected to a 8" lcd , can’t find the exact same model I bought some years ago, but something like these should do :

https://www.ebay.fr/itm/8-inch-LCD-...876505?hash=item2ce6458419:g:zPQAAOSwNydcd7v3
https://www.ebay.fr/itm/8-Inch-HDMI...422208?hash=item2ad0a9e780:g:9OgAAOSwRfxcGXhH

Mine doesn’t have a HDMI port , so it’s connected via an VGA-HDMI adapter, but as you can see in links above, easy to find some with HDMI.



The LCD is removed from his case with his board , then attached to the Classic front case like so :



In front of the screen I’ve inserted a clear acrylic plate , it stays in place between the four screw holders. The plate corners are cut at an angle and a bit larger than the emplacement, so that I bend a bit the acrylic plate to insert it in place. This gives a small curved look, though not enough to look like a real CRT.
I used black tape to make the black borders like on the CRT.


(Left one is an original Classic)

Then you can put the R-Pi inside the case, and let all the wires get out via the empty Classic case ports.



Did that earlier, then I bought a 250GB HD for my Pi, and decided to leave the Pi and the HD outside on the side of the Classic case, cause it’s more convenient when I want to access it.

Software : the R-Pi 3 runs Rapsbian 8 Jessie. With Windowmaker.
To have the resolution you want on the small 8" screen , need to edit /boot/config.txt.
I use 640x480, so I edited like so :
framebuffer_width=640
framebuffer_height=480

then Installing BuckTooth gopher is very well explained during the process, start installation and follow what it says:
https://gopherproxy.meulie.net/gopher.floodgap.com/1/buck
Then if you want your gopher opened to the outside, just open and route port 70 (or the port you've chosen for your gopher server during installation) to the R-Pi on your router.

Now BasiliskII. you first have to build it :
https://www.emaculation.com/doku.ph...asilisk#building_basiliskii_in_linux_flavours

Network : BasiliskII use two method for networking, via slirp or via a custom ethernet driver. Slirp is easy , but the problem is that it makes his own virtual subnetwork, so your BasiliskII will not have a IP in the same range as your real internal network. good for accessing the net from the BasiliskII VM, but not good if you want to reroute some ports to the same for accessing it from outside.

To have your BasiliskII VM having a IP in your network range you need to build the ethernet driver included in the BasiliskII sources. see here at "networking" and at the end of page :
https://www.emaculation.com/doku.php/basiliskii_linux_setup


I had a bit of difficulties to find the correct jessie sources and headers for R-Pi to be able to compile the driver, remember rpi-source helped me for that :
https://github.com/notro/rpi-source/wiki

Once it’s build, you have to load the ethernet driver before you launch BasiliskII like so :
sudo modprobe sheep_net
sudo chown YOURUSERHERE /dev/sheep_net

Then you boot your BasiliskII VM and set your network with TCP/IP as you would for any physical Classic Mac on your network. He will have a IP in the range of your internal network. Easy to route ports from your router to it if needed.

For the Gopher server running in the BasiliskII VM, it’s really easy to setup , I’ll point back to my previous post : https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...epshaver-or-os-9.2193762/page-2#post-27636291