I know this isnt the place, but I hope theres someone here that has used an mac emulator.

I have a Quadra 650, I am emulating it on a PC, I dont have a CD-Burner for my Mac but have 1 for my PC, I dont have a modem for my mac either. Eith my PC, I downloaded some mac software in hqx and bin extension, I created a Mac ISO img file useing a program CDEverywhere, transfered the hqx and bin files to the img, and burned it to CD-R and it worked fine on my Mac.

I have a HFV file (HFVExplorer) that I can see the files inside, I can extract them to my PC useing mac binary II and then create a Mac ISO img and burn it, the problem is after I burn the img and try it in my mac, 1 of the files is missing. "there are 2 installer files" one gets lost somewhere in the creating and burning of the img. I've tried several forums but know one has answered.

If someone has used emulation and may be able to help me, please post and I will be more detailed and provide what ever info I can .

appreciate ant help...thanx JJ

I use a really good freeware Mac emulator called Basilisk II on my PCs, it runs System 7.5.5 very well and is meant to be able to run OS8 but I haven't been able to get that to work, and it can only emulate a 68K Mac, not a Power Mac - but aside from those restrictions, I've found it excellent. I'm not sure if it will help you with what you want to do, but if you want to try it, go to http://gamma.nic.fi/~lpesonen/BasiliskII/.

Actually I am using Basilisk II and emulating my Quadra 650 on my PC.

What I am tring to do is transfer a HFV file to Mac ISO. I downloaded a 56meg HFV file (its an OS) I can use the HFV image file under the emulator, but what I want to do is this: I am useing CDEveryWhere, this alows me to create a Mac ISO file, then I can burn the ISO to CD-R on my PC. What I have to do is extract the content of the HFV image file to the PC, useing the Mac Binary II option in HFVexplorer, then use CDEverywhere to create a Mac ISO image from those files I extracted, there are 6 filrs in the HFV image and when I create the Mac ISO image there are 6 files. After I burn the Mac ISO image to CD-R, and try to use it in my Quadra, one of the files is missing (leaving 5 on the CD) this is causeing a problem when tring to install the program because its one of the installer files. What I need to know is how to transfer all the files to my PC then create the Mac ISO image and burn the exact content of the HFV file. although everything shows all the files its missing 1 after I burn the ISO image.

well do this go under the basilisk 2 GUI preferences. then go under My Computer option tab click the box Enable external file system then select the C drive but leave the cd-rom dive unchecked then run it then your able to transfer files around with out HFV Explorer.

oh and i got Mac os 8.1 running on mine.

oh 1 more thing is it just me or does it only let you have 20MHz of cpu? if not tell me how to make it have more MHz

Theres one problem doing this method. The files become TEXT (TXT) files and arent any good after this transfer.
Thanx anyhow Lee.

It works for me, I don't know why it turns into txt files with your PC.

Try useing HFV Explorer it has a burning UT
or try this site.
http://mes.emuunlim.com/tips/creating_a_mac_cdr_using_a_hdf.htm

Man thats awsome Lee, I didnt know I could do that with Nero!

That sites info is exactly what I've been looking for.

Thanx so much Lee.

I have that site in my favorites but I never ventured into there tips section, and its funny to think that I had the answer to this all this time and didnt even know it. I will check all there info now.

Thanx again Lee,
JJ

You mentioned about the CPU speed! I cant find anywhere in my emulator or in the emulator desktop anything about CPU speed. I just noticed something, I got my Rom image from my Quadra650, but B2 shows it as a Quadra650/900. Does this mean I can emulate a 900 rather than my 650?

Where do you find the CPU speed in the emulator or emulation?

Hey thanx again for the help Lee.

JJ

with a 1mb rom you can emulate any of the macs that are on the list.

i mean of the CPU is am i the only 1 runing at 20MHz if so how would i got about makeing it quicker.

P.S. noproblem JJ for the little tip for nero
i was looking for the same thing
awhile back the i found it.

I am also using Basilisk II, I love it, I hope they develop a PPC emulator sooner or later... But anyway, I'm not a Mac OS genius yet, and I don't know how to get Mac OS to report the CPU speed. If you tell me how to check, I'll let you know what it says. I'm running system 7.5.5 (I can't find OS 8.1 anywhere)

You don't actually need HFVExplorer to burn a Mac disk on a PC and you don't even need any CD creation software on the Mac. All you need is Basilisk and ordinary PC CD burning software. Use Basilisk's configuration program to create a blank HFV volume of the right size, say in a file called newvolume.hfv. Start Basilisk and move whatever files you want into the volume. Exit Basilisk. Rename newvolume.hfv (or whatever you called it) to newvolume.iso. Then burn newvolume.iso with your CD burning software as if it were a simple ISO image. It worked just fine on B's recorder.

One neat thing about MacOS is that HFS CDs are just the same as ordinary HFS volumes.

You can even do this without ever using Basilisk, just a Macintosh and free Apple software. Get Apple's DiskCopy. I think 6.13 will work fine. Use it to create an uncompressed image file of the right size, mount it and drag files into it. The easiest way to do this is just to have a folder ready with all your files, and drag the folder onto DiskCopy, and then tell DiskCopy to create a read-only uncompressed image file.

Then copy the .img file to the PC, rename .img to .iso, and burn. I haven't actually tried every step here, but as far as I know it will work.