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Basilisk II and apps

I just found Basilisk II and I do try to find answers before resorting to asking questions, but am not finding what I'm looking for. I'm using the latest Windows port, and followed the setup guide to the letter, including upgrading the OS to 7.5.5. I know this is more of an app/game archive site than support for the emulator itself, but maybe someone has some pointers.

When installing a multi-disk game, how are you supposed to accomplish the swapping of floppy disk images? I was expecting something like Daemon tools where you can just soft-mount a new floppy image when the OS asked for a new disk.

Second, I have OS sound, but it seems most games I've tried have no audio. Not sure if that is pretty typical or not. Would like to know others experience so I don't kill myself trying to fix something that is futile.

Lastly, not sure if there are better emulators out there, as BII seems quirky to me. It doesn't even seem to have a working keyboard mapping of the option key.

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Hi. I can't really help you much with the newest Basilisk II on Windows questions as I run the older stable build 142 version, which does have extensive keyboard mapping that works well. It is also vastly more "tweakable". Build 142 is old, I run it on an older 32bit Windows XP box. I don't know if it runs on 64bit newer Windows machines & OS's.

There is also a forum for Mac emulation questions here. Tho' as you say someone here may be able to help.

With regards to floppy disk swapping. In an emulated session you'll likely be installing from Disk image files. From within the emulated Mac session, usually, you can drag all of the disk images onto Disk Copy 6.x to mount the images onto the Mac's desktop at the same time. Once they've all mounted, run the installer from in the first disk, the installer program will detect all of the mounted images and complete the install without the need to swap disks.

You can also drag image files directly into the emulators window to mount them via the host PC if the archive has been extracted beforehand and the emulated session is "windowed" not full screen. The number of images you can load this way may be limited. Personally, I prefer to extract an archive from within the emulated Mac OS and mount them using Disk Copy 6 or other disk mounting utilities, as required.