I was looking for utilities, on the mac side, to overcome the keyboard problem.
One could be visualkeyboard 1.2 (take it from http://hyperarchive.lcs.mit.edu/HyperArchive/Archive/gui/visual-keyboard-12.hqx ) which gives a customizable onscreen keyboard. Beware that when I opened its configurator, basilisk crashed, trashing its virtual hd, which I had to recreate.
Maybe also ResEdit could be useful.

Key Caps in the Apple Menu of all classic Mac operating systems might be useful.


There's also PopChar Pro, an old shareware extention that can be used to pick out keyboard characters using the mouse.

This works quite nice, actually as it gives you access to a rather full set of symbols and international characters... takes some time to get used to the keyboard layout but it works. The clicking on the upper-left corner to make the kbd appear / disappear takes some doing but again it works.

The configuration utility is another story, it made BasiliskII crash but did not damage my Mac HD -- as you reported. Here's what apparently happened. I am running with MacOS 7.5.5.

If need be, I suppose, a visualkeyboard configuration could be generated on a real old mac and brought over, ie., bring over the visualkeyboard.prefs file.

A new xkbd layout has been released,

http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...light=basilisk

and possibly OSEmuTech has reworked that layout into something more suitable for BasiliskII. For the time being, the above visualkeyboard is a lot more Mac-friendly. With xkbd, I am getting some error messages from BasiliskII at startup,

For external BT keyboards, I think a suitable keyboard map needs creating using the xmodmap and xev utilities... BasiliskII seems to have keyboard maps and controls as well - maybe OSEmuTech can explain how these options work.

-- Denis

Hey I am very new to the NIT and was very pleased to see that there was work being done to emulate mac. I have been using this forum to learn more and want to say THANKS. I have been able to install basilisk on my N800 OS2008 but when I go to launch a program in the emulated OS it crashes.
I have attached a pic of the error I get. I appreciate any help. I have tried to fix it to my limited ability. Thanks gain for the post I'm not as bad as I started out.
dee

Only one side note: eventually I got my Office 4.2.1 disk from an ebay seller and installed it on the emulated Macintosh on the NIT. It's great - it's not Speedy Gonzalez, you know, but it's more than enough to work! As OsEmuTech reported first, it makes you feel quite better to know you can mess with word excel powerpoint documents while on the go with your tablet. I'm confident the keyboard issue will be resolved, and for now a combination of hw keyboard and virtual keyboard can be enough.

But... this makes me think - if running a M$ monster program on an emulated processor and OS proves feasible on our tablets, why o why can't we have Openoffice.org? I don't believe the NIT lacks the needed horsepower - but I do firmly believe that compiling that sort of thing is a pain in the a.s.s.!

Hum. Which Mac OS are you running? What Mac did the ROM file come from and do you know the ROM checksum? Are you launching BasiliskII as root or as an ordinary user? You might need to run Basilisk II with extensions off to see if any extensions are causing problems. I recommend two other forums for assistance:

http://www.emaculation.com/forum (I'm Mac Emu)
http://forums.delphiforums.com/MacEmulation (I'm OS Emu)

Thanks for your reply and the referral sites.
I'm running OS 7.5.5
I'm using the Quadra 650.rom (32bit clean MacII ROM 512/1MB)
The checksum is F1ACAD13

My prefs are setup like a post from an earlier post on the forum besides screen res. is 640 480
dee

sorry
and I am launching from user and have launched out of nano after gainroot.
dee

I was able to reproduce your do_handle_screen_fault error.

This error on Basilisk II has been discussed before a couple of years ago, using older source code as the Maemo port uses. The developer (Gwenole) fixed it in later source code, but I don't know what he did.

I just compiled a port for OS 2008 using a Basilisk II (JIT) source code tarball where the bug was fixed and it doesn't have the problem. But it's slower, the screen size is limited to standard resolutions, and it can't switch to full screen.

I'll be messing around with t3h's hacked code and the dozens of source code releases for Basilisk II and Basilisk II JIT I have on hand in Scratchbox. I just uploaded them if anyone knows what they're doing.

Thanks
I will keep my eyes open for a fix
I love having the possibility of having the old Mac OS on my N800
I have a couple of my disc images from the 90's that I can blow the dust off of.