Re: quicktime - dibeng.dll

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

laer@nospam.customized.com (Laer Haider) wrote:

>supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:
>
>>"gabriele zenezini" <zenezini@alfa.it> wrote:
>>
>>>I'm not able to run quicktime vr on my pc (win95).
>>>The message is a "general protection fault in dibeng.dll at 0003:000046c9
>>>by PLAY32"
>>>Any help is appreciated
>>
>>Check out www.emulators.com, the site of the Gemulator.  Gemulator
>>will emulate a Mac II on Win95!  With it, you can run Macintosh QT
>>without the .dll problem of the Win version.
>
>I have one of their cards and emulation programs.  Gemulator currently
>only supports the Mac Plus and Atari (8-, 16-, and 32-bit) systems,
>though they are working on a System 8.0 compatible version of their
>emulation software.  The card is for inserting real Mac ROM's, which I
>got from a local Apple dealer off of a dead Mac motherboard.

The ROMs on a card are a pain, but that's one way of ensuring that
they are legal above reproach.  Light years better than the Executor
technique of legality.

>The Atari emulation is very fast and fairly complete.  The Mac
>emulation is pretty slow, even for a Mac Plus.  Well, I guess it's a
>little faster than a Mac Plus on my Pentium 233MMX, but I still feel
>it is disappointingly slow.  It makes me concerned about the speed of
>System 8.0 in their next version.  I have ROM's from an Apple IIcx
>already installed; so I'm just waiting for the software update.

The Atari ST emulation and the Mac Plus emulation is using the
same 68k emulation engine.  The reason the Mac Plus emu is
slower is because the real Mac Plus was slower.  The Mac Plus
firmware and software were, excuse the expression, quite cruddy
compared to Atari ST software.

>The other problem has to do with getting files into the emulator.  The
>Atari emulator can see, read, and write to every device on the PC.
>But the Mac emulator can only see MacOS images, the 3.5" floppy drive,
>and Mac-formatted SCSI drives.  I still haven't been able to format
>and recognize a Jaz cartridge as a Mac drive through the Mac emulator.

I would try formatting a Jazz catridge on the GS with ADU and
GenEx.  This will probably turn the cart into what to the Mac will
look like a hard disk (since it now has a generic scsi hd driver).
The Jazz on the SCSI chain might then be recognized...

>Overall, I'm pleased with the emulator though not blown away by it.
>It isn't everything I had hoped for, but it's nice to be able to run
>Mac applications side-by-side with Windows applications.

It is the only real option....real emulation.

Executor is a joke.