[NTLK] BasiliskII ports problem

[Matthias Melcher]

> On 26. Oct 2025, at 11:17, Eckhart Köppen <eck at 40hz.org> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 20 Oct 2025 20:01:08 +0300, Eckhart Köppen wrote:
>> Is anybody using NCU (or NTK) from within BasiliskII successfully? I 
>> tried BasiliskII 1.0 and the MacOS images on UNNA, and some other 
>> images I found, no dice…
> 
> I tried this now with an older BasiliskII version Vladislav was using 
> (it shows 6/7 in the icon instead of 7/8), and that worked fine. I 
> wonder if there was a change in BasiliskII which caused the problem. 
> Unfortunately, both binaries report their version as 1.0.
> 
> Additionally, I did not observe BasiliskII hanging when using the PTY 
> provided by the REx-based drivers, could also be that this issue was 
> fixed at some point in BasiliskII.

Five years ago, I managed to compile BasiliskII on Mac and Windows. I added support for TCP/IP. named pipes, and fixed some serial port stuff IIRC. I never made a pull request for the original though.

See: https://github.com/MatthiasWM/macemu

This was specifically to make it work with Einstein and MessagePads. Maybe that's the version that you got through Vladislav?

See: http://messagepad.org/Newton_Installs.html

Thanks for the EInstein documentation changes, btw!

 - Matthias