[NTLK] BasiliskII ports problem
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newton at indigi.co.uk
Sun Oct 26 05:52:26 PDT 2025
I am using your version + GUI setup, and everything is working great.
Thank you for that, Matthias!
Cheers
Pawel
Sent from my Newton MessagePad 2100
> On 26 Oct 2025, at 10:38, Matthias Melcher <m.melcher at robowerk.de> wrote:
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>> On 26. Oct 2025, at 11:17, Eckhart Köppen <eck at 40hz.org> wrote:
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>>> 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…
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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> 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.
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> See: https://github.com/MatthiasWM/macemu
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> This was specifically to make it work with Einstein and MessagePads. Maybe that's the version that you got through Vladislav?
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> See: http://messagepad.org/Newton_Installs.html
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> Thanks for the EInstein documentation changes, btw!
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> - Matthias
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