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New highlight video: Myst (1993) running on ShapeShifter

You can speed up the install process tremendously using the Amiga CLI/Shell "Addbuffers" command on the partition your image is on: --> http://www.mattowen.co.uk/amiga/amiga-os-command-reference-help/addbuffers.html I have been using HDToolBox to configure buffers (should be equivalent in practice, right?). I haven't been maxing it out, ...

However, when you shut down the Mac, you get a message that asks you to insert a volume with LIBS:workbench.library on it and you're just stuck (Retry and Cancel do nothing). I keep learning more things and one of them was that the 3.1.4 Kickstart ROM removed some stuff that was in the 3.1 Kickstart. Replacing one with the other allowed me to bypa...

For anyone foolishly wanting to create their own .hdf to use with ShapeShifter: first of all, don't. Just don't! If you insist, though, do NOT use FFS as your filesystem for ShapeShifter files. It is unbearably slow. PFS3 is very quick by contrast. It took me way too long to figure out how to format partitions as something other than FFS successfu...

For anyone foolishly wanting to create their own .hdf to use with ShapeShifter: first of all, don't. Just don't! If you insist, though, do NOT use FFS as your filesystem for ShapeShifter files. It is unbearably slow. PFS3 is very quick by contrast. It took me way too long to figure out how to format partitions as something other than FFS successful...

I tried going down this rabbit hole last year and spent a solid month trying to get something working but it looks like you got much further than I did. I was also never an Amiga user so it was a lot of fumbling around in the dark (although I was also trying to build up my own image from scratch so that was probably mistake #1). I was finally succ...

Quick and dirty ShapeShifter image editing guide (for Windows users): Install the FS-UAE Amiga emulator (WinUAE also works and has a few extra options (can create hardfiles), but is harder to use) Source an appropriate Kickstart ROM (I use kick.a1200.46.143 for most of what I'm doing on an emulator) Configure FS-UAE as follows: Home/Amiga Model/A4...

jca wrote: ↑Sat Apr 10, 2021 6:02 pm hope your guide will cover the updating of the ShapeShifter disk

This part is so non-trivial I made a quick little writeup in the ShapeShifter thread for you, see link below

Quick and dirty guide ShapeShifter image editing guide (for Windows users)

This looks really snappy and nice. Have you tried any MIDI or other music software? I have not, though it is definitely something I want to look at. I've gotten MIDI working in Atari ST and native Minimig before, but I have no idea how MIDI works in ShapeShifter yet... I'm still having trouble with my image. I nearly got everything working in my c...

This process (formatting an Amiga partition as a DeviceDisk in MacOS under ShapeShifter) takes forever (hours) every time I have to do it (too many times already) but hopefully the results will be worth it in the end. I'm saving my 4GB file with two 2GB Mac partitions pre-formatted as well as the scsi.device information to plug into ShapeShifter. M...

By the way, for anyone wanting to muck with Amiga stuff but who doesn't know where to start, I've found using the Coffin r58 image (just rename to .hdf) as a base has been pretty fruitful. It has a lot of useful stuff installed on it and can give you a platform to mount other images and use DOpus and other things without having to worry about .lha ...

I'd like to talk about ShapeShifter Mac emulation on the Minimig core. I have mentioned it a few times in the MacPlus thread, but it seems like there's a place for a specific thread. I've been working on a ready-made image for this emulator, and there have been a lot of roadblocks and bumps on the way. I'm still not done... I just went down a very ...

This Amiga stuff is a true headache. I made a lot of (hypothetical) progress, but disk operations under whatever Amiga formats disks as by default are terrible beyond measure and I haven't yet learned how to get PFS3 working. Formatting large partitions on the Mac side while running from this filesystem is similarly abhorrent, so despite learning a...

I have done some hdf-ing before, both for my real Amiga and Minimig, but all on a noob-level. As an experiment I did manage to create a 6.5GB hdf today. It has 500GB WB 3.1 partition and 2x empty ~3GB ones. It seems to work in MiSTer. If you're still after it, I can try to help if you have any questions (or upload this hdf somewhere). Though, it's...

Still putting off creating my own .hdf as it's quite some work, but I got back around to doing more ShapeShifter testing. There are a surprising number of games that run well enough to be enjoyable. I spent a lot of time last night getting distracted from testing playing Theme Park, Castles: Siege and Conquest, and SimTower. Most surprising is in a...

Somewhat off-topic (maybe I should make a new topic?), but I have a request that would really help me with the ShapeShifter image. I need some kind of walkthrough on creating and formatting a bootable .hdf with large partitions. Since ShapeShifter can mount Amiga partitions, I want at least two 2GB blank Amiga partitions. They might be able to be u...

Many thanks for the link to your Mac resources, @meauxdal. Fantastic job! May I suggest uploading the images to archive.org? The Mediafire speeds are very low (I'm still trying to DL the big 2.8GB shapeshifter image), and I'm sure they would reach a much bigger audience on the archive as well. Regarding the core itself, do you guys think it's wort...

New version is out now. The main image is a little slow but pretty damn stable now. There's still work left to do to make sure everything Just Works ... Macs are fickle things.

After Dark 2.0 is a highlight of the new additions. Love those fish and flying toasters.

Maybe I'll actually get a new ShapeShifter image out soon.

v14.03 is out now. A ridiculous amount of new stuff in this one. I did a very rough run through of things I thought might be problematic and it seems pretty OK. Let me know if you want to test drive it. If you download it, let me know how it works for you. I feel it's relatively close to complete, just needs people to play with it. The main image i...

I have made great strides in configuring the image lately. I'm very pleased with the state of it from that perspective. I've added shortcuts in the Apple Menu for the System 7 OSes and configured OnCue for System 6 so System Picker is easily accessible right from the desktop. I also added some quick links to Word, Excel, and Photoshop so directory-...

I tried with MPEE-vmac.dsk but trying to run POP poped up "Sorry, a system error occurred. Unimplemented trap." You need to do Special > Set Startup... > MultiFinder > OK, reboot, then drag the disk back onto Mini vMac to get it to run. The audio sounds the same in Mini vMac as it does in the MacPlus core as far as I can tell. We should ...

Here's a video of someone running it on real hardware: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAu2lFBKNbE

Maybe this can help us identify what's going on.

... What does PoP sound like under Mini vMac? I tried to boot the vhd under Mini vMac but get a floppy with a question mark. I guess it is because of SCSI. Check the second download link in my doc - that one is a volume image that will boot if dragged onto Mini vMac. I'll test it myself here in a bit, just need to finish up some other stuff I'm wo...

Audio is weird. Some games (Lemmings, Warlords, Factory) sound essentially flawless as far as I can tell. MusicWorks seems perfect on some tunes, but has slight tempo hiccups on others. And some games like Prince of Persia sound very bad for some reason - at least in the intro. The in-game SFX seem fine. Not sure we're going to find too many folks ...

Mostly Apple stuff:
Lisa
IIGS
Mac II
SE/30

As well as:
Xerox Star (Xerox 8010 Information System)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILLIAC_I - any of the ILLIAC behemoths, really
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC

32x would be excellent as far as consoles go

I am so grateful for this community. Y'all have been great. Thank you for the support! I hope playing some of these old games gives any of you as much joy as it has given me! I think something I'll do once the images are "done" more or less, is write out a beginner's guide to the core with the things I've learned, so people who have strug...

New version (v13.02) of my hard drive image is out there, linked from the usual document. This is probably the most stable and polished release thus far. Usual document? Sorry, I'm new to the MacPlus :-) Right, sorry, for anyone just joining - if you are interested in testing out my Macintosh .vhd files, please send me a PM or email or just reply ...

New version (v13.02) of my hard drive image is out there, linked from the usual document. This is probably the most stable and polished release thus far.

Are you guys getting sound effects to play in Lode Runner? MiniVMac seems to play them fine using the same copy of the game. I thought the game was essentially silent, but it does look like it plays a little (horrible-sounding) jingle at the end of each stage normally. Wonder if this works if you run the game from a bootable floppy on the core or ...

v12.01 of my image was just released. Please update! It is by far the best version to date. Includes some extras this time. Knock on wood, this one should be mostly stable so barring any reported showstoppers (testers, let me know if you can boot this thing up, etc.), I may take some time to work on the Amiga/ShapeShifter image next. There are oodl...