Thank you!@alex_free, allow me to be the first poster to express my thanks and confirm that your handiwork is faultless.
Following the instructions to the letter on my 2011 13" MBP under El Capitan, a CD-R was burned for me at 8x on the internal optical drive.
I placed the burned disc into the Dreamcast and it was time for the moment of the truth.
Hooray! It has reached the boot screen: so far, so good.
The emulator has loaded.
Let's pick a game and have some fun.
This emulator works perfectly! I no longer need to seek out a Sega Master System and the cartridges at inflated prices (due to retro greed) because I can play the titles on the DC for zilch and with the advantage of much greater flexibility and options. I'm now in a situation where the sky is the limit in terms of what I can explore on the homebrew scene and retail DC games because creating a bootable CD-R from a CDI file is an automated cakewalk.
Alex, thanks so much for your continued efforts on countless fronts that have brought us so many boons in the Mac world. Just a week ago I had no idea that I'd end up owning a Dreamcast and now look at what's available to me without having to mess around with one of my Win boxes.
Astounding!
100 CD-R spindles can be found for $30 or cheaper in retail stores nowadays
Wow. I could never get that thing to work under PowerPC at all, no matter how many times I tried. My Dreamcast development system wound up being a TiBook running W2k under VPC, and I used all of the Windows tools available at the time to burn the CDs (via USB. Internal didn't work through VPC). Janky, but I wrote a few games for the system, and ported quite a few more. Nowadays I have a GDEMU, so my Dreamcast doesn't even have a GDROM drive anymore...
There needs to be a new Mac releases regardless (PowerPC even). I think I know why this occurs (Mac is now 64 bit only with since Catalina even).This is what happened when I tried to run DCDIB under Ventura:
I then checked your site for the most recent macOS versions and discovered that you've abandoned the platform.
Is there any chance that you could be persuaded to release an updated version?
I suppose that I can always use another Mac with an older OS...
I think it was tested up to 10.11 only back in the day. I actually am going to be focused soon on bringing a lot of Linux only stuff related to burning that I’ve done in past years to Mac pretty soon. I’m trying to focus on one thing at a time, but I have stuff like this: https://github.com/alex-free/playstation-disc-burner as well. I have so many projects it’s kinda stretching me thin if you’ve seen my GitHub so I’ve been focusing on one major project at a time and potentially smaller projects intermittently in between so I actually get stuff released.I've switched to High Sierra on a i5 MBA with a USB burner and this is what happened:
In the past, I ran it under El Capitan without problems. Is High Sierra too recent for DCDIB?
The tutorial was so hard to figure out! Windows 7 kept not installing, I scoured all 4 corners of the internet with the useless 2025 google search engine and finally assembled something that allowed all the worlds best operating systems to be on one HDD on the late 2012 Mac mini. That thing is so great because you have official boot camp windows 7 64 bit support (last windows worth running) and good modern linux support, as well as 10.8-10.15 Mac OS to play with. But to have them all play nice? I had to document that it was possible! I even do a shared exfat partition in the tutorial so you can move any size file between all of them (no 4GB file size limitation, or 32GB partition size limitation, I made it 40GBs to save room for the other 3 OSes). So I can just copy I.e. game installers and Xbox 360 isos from linux to the shared partition, then boot up Mac OS or windows and copy them over!It didn't work for me under 10.6 either on another MBA using the same USB burner. At this point I had a suspicion that was confirmed when I powered up an iBook G4 and enjoyed success: there's some sort of issue with external optical drives - or perhaps the one that I'm using.
Hey, take your time and pace yourself. Everything you provide has always been for free and I for one appreciate anything that you share with us.
Congrats on your bargain!
Fantastic news, I look forward to seeing what you come up with and I'm going to check out your tutorial.
