Unable to play games on BasiliskII

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2014, September 29 - 9:24pm

Abbbby333

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Unable to play games on BasiliskII

So I've successfully set up basiliskII and it's running with no problem. However i am struggling to find a way to play games on it. I have downloaded oregon trail 2 from this website and from one other site. i have put the .sit file in the shared folder and transferred it over to the MacOS753 hardrive and it would not open. It displayed this message-
"The document "OregonTrail2.sit" could not be opened, because the application program that created it could not be found.
Could to find a translation extension with appropriate translators."

Then i tried to expand it with the stuffit expander app and it turned into a .toast file which launched a window in OS X with an installation option which did not work when selected. I then put the .toast file into the shared folder in basiliskII and transferred that to the MacOS753 hardrive. when i tried to open it in basilisk i got this message-
"The Document "Oregon Trail II.Toast" could not be opened, because the application program that created it could not be found.
could not find a translation extension with appropriate translators."

I am really stumped as to what to do next and really need some help. I am new to the world of emulators so clear, step by step instructions would be very appreciated. Thank you so much in advance! I can't wait to play some of my favorite childhood games!

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2014, September 29 - 10:47pm

sfp1954

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Many of the programs on here are in the form of disk images.
We take our original CD-ROMs.
We then use Toast to create a disk image of the CD, this creates a .toast file.
Then to save space and avoid any corruption we compress the .toast file with Drop Stuff (or similar) to create a .sit file.

The first step is to download and decompress the .sit file (which you have done).
If a .sit file doesn't have the correct icon it is always easier to just drag and drop onto Drop Unstuff or Stuffit Expander.
If the result of decompression is a folder then the game is probably ready to be played.

If the result is a .toast file or a .cdr file you need to find out if a physical CD is needed to play the game. Some games can be played by just mounting the disk image. You can do that either with Toast (there are several versions online here) or with the Virtual CD utility.
http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/virtual-dvd-romcd-utility.

Many games checked the computers physical CD drive to make sure you actually owned the game.
The game will not start unless there is a real CD-ROM in the drive. For example Diablo and Warcraft II cannot be played without a physical CD in your drive.
In that case you must use Toast (OS Classic, OSX) or Apple Disk Utility (OSX) to burn a real copy of the game CD.
It depends on what hardware and software you have access to.
Toast 5.2.2 is compatible with both OS 9 and OSX through to Leopard.
http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/toast-5-titanium
Toast 4 works with Basilisk.
http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/toast-deluxe-4
In OSX I believe you can just open Disk Utililty, drag the .toast file into the lower left window and hit the burn button.

You should also install Quicktime 4 for 68k machines if using Basilisk.
http://macintoshgarden.org/sites/macintoshgarden.org/files/apps/QT_403_6...

2014, September 30 - 5:36pm

IIGS_User

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A CD image can also be added like your emulated hard disk drive. But, as written above, when the game doesn't want this way, use the Virtual CD/DVD Utility mount it inside.