The free download of 7.5 should be fine, but will really take you
through a time warp. Pick up a copy of OS8 from ebay cheap. I am
assuming you were emailed a 1MB Quadra rom. This will give you the best
compatibility. I use BII at work for web development testing, but it is
running on a Win2K machine. Before that, when I was contemplating
purchasing a Mac I used BII in full screen on my Duron/Win2k machine for
a few month and forgot I had a PC. Compatibility with 68K/FAT software
was excellent.
Getting networking to work on a windows machine running BII is a breeze
however I cannot say the same for BeOS since I have never tried BII on
BeOS. Windows uses a driver that binds with your real NIC's TCP/IP
stack.
Assuming that BII can talk to your serial ports running on top of BeOS,
and you can mount HSF volumes in BeOS, (For windows there is a program
called HFS Explorer to view HFS volumes) I think you should have no
problems getting BII to do what you want.
On Saturday, December 1, 2001, at 02:06 AM, Dave's Newton wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> OK, I'm still having monster troubles with NCU and Win2K and I'm about
> to throw the PC out the window:
>
> -> Won't backup, just disconnects
> -> Won't install any packages over about 100K - it just stops
> during the transfer
>
> So, I'm going to give Basilisk II a go in the BeOS. A saint :) who
> shall remail nameless (thanks DS) emailed me a ROM and Basilisk II
> likes it! But that's just the ROM.
>
> All I want to use Basilisk II for is connecting with the Newton. I am
> given a choice of Mac OS 7.x, or 8.x and apparently, I can download 7.x
> for free - I don't know about 8.x. I've never used a Mac (though I
> would probably regret that decision if I used one for a while), so I
> don't know anything about them.
>
> For the purposes that I want to use Basilisk II for, what do you guys
> recommend=3F
>
> Any tips on setting up / using BII would be appreciated too.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dave
> Sent from the BeOS
>
>
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