Shapeshifter vs. Basilisk II

[slaapliedje]

So I was thinking of diving in a bit to do some Mac OS emulation and knew about Shapeshifter from long ago.

But now looking at their official page, it says it has been obsoleted by Basilisk II.

Anyone have any insight into this?  I knew about Basilisk II from it being in Linux repositories, but they do have a copy of it on Aminet as well as on their home page.

Which one is actually better?  Or is Basilisk simply a rename and updated code?

I also find it rather odd, that Shapeshifter 3.11 was uploaded to Aminet in 2007, yet Basilisk II v0.9-1 was uploaded in 2003.  Arch Linux has a AUR package dated 22032005, and Debian Sid has 0.9.20070407-4.

Probably most will say stick to shapeshifter, I searched for Basilisk and there wasn't a single hit on these forums.

Opinions, experiences?

slaapliedje

[slaapliedje]

Thanks for all the advice.  Out of the two, I hadn't even been able to get Basilisk II to do more than give me a white screen and lock up.

In trying different configs of Shapeshifter, I managed at one point to get color, but now I can't seem to set the ram above 8MB, and it's giving me a black and white and extremely slow setup.

I have a Radeon 9250+Mediator in my A4000D and I haven't been able to get shapeshifter to use it without crashing.  I downloaded the CardTrickEVD and set it up to run in 1024x768 and it always gave me an out of memory error.

Seems to me everything is MUCH faster when running under the Radeon, so it'd be awesome if I could get Shapeshifter to work under it.  Really at this point, I am just looking to run a different browser under it.  But If I can't get it to actually work at a usable speed, that kind of makes it pointless.

It's odd, it has a memory option for ANY, Chip ram or 24Bit DMA Ram (I'm guessing that should be using the Radeon's memory) but that makes it lock up right when I click start.

Any suggestions?  I've tried reading through Cammy's excellent Howto, but still it's not exactly working like I want it to.  

slaapliedje

[slaapliedje]

Yeah, been using it on ANY.  As I said, that's the only one it works on without turning the screen gray then sitting there.

Was painful, for some random reason my hard drive light wasn't working, must have been after I had bleached the front of my case (still need to do the rest of the keyboard) but that's fixed now, so at least I can see if the Miggy is just sitting there smokin' crack, or if it's trying to do something.

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