I decided to give Basilisk II [1] another try, given the proper files [2] for Mac System 8 were available. The problem I had last time [3] appeared to be a simple compiler problem [4], and forcing the Makefile to use g++ got past that issue.
I then had to make a bazillion casts in one of the files, since g++ didn't like the code:
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```
../uae_cpu/gencpu.c:2422: error: invalid conversion from `unsigned int' to `amodes'
../uae_cpu/gencpu.c:2422: error: initializing argument 1 of `void genamode(amodes, char*, wordsizes, char*, int, int)'
../uae_cpu/gencpu.c:2422: error: invalid conversion from `unsigned int' to `wordsizes'
../uae_cpu/gencpu.c:2422: error: initializing argument 3 of `void genamode(amodes, char*, wordsizes, char*, int, int)'
```
It seems one cannot cast an unsigned bitfield to an enum in g++ without a cast. There were only a bazillion locations to change in that one file, but once done, I had Basilisk II running on my Linux system.
[A HyperCard calculator and the System 7 calculator on System 8] [5]
A nice feature of Basilisk II is that it can mount a Unix directory as a Mac “drive” so transferring files in and out of the virtual Macintosh is very easy and I no longer need to use hfsutils on disk images.
[1] http://basilisk.cebix.net/
[2] http://www.loper-os.org/?p=658
[4] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/329059/what-is-gxx-personality-v0-for
![[5] /boston/2011/12/06/color-mac.gif](/gemini.conman.org/boston/2011/12/06/color-mac.gif){kind=link}