Windows LisaEm won't let me boot from *.dc42 images created in Mac

[kewatsdop]

I'm flooding the forum with problems.... tell me when I have overstepped.

I installed LisaEm on my Windows machine, but the Windows LisaEm (1.2.6) does not want to boot from the *.dc42 images which I created earlier on a Mac (1.2.7 RC) mounted in Preferences - as if they were not connected at all.

I tried mounting them in Preferences both in the Ports tab under Parallel Ports, and in Slot1 tab, under Upper Parallel Port.

Any ideas?

[rayarachelian]

I'm flooding the forum with problems.... tell me when I have overstepped.

I installed LisaEm on my Windows machine, but the Windows LisaEm (1.2.6) does not want to boot from the *.dc42 images which I created earlier on a Mac (1.2.7 RC) mounted in Preferences - as if they were not connected at all.

I tried mounting them in Preferences both in the Ports tab under Parallel Ports, and in Slot1 tab, under Upper Parallel Port.

Any ideas?

You're not overstepping, we're here to help, no worries.

The lisaem-profile.dc42 should be placed on the motherboard parallel port, not the expansion slot ports. If you do that, it won't be able to boot from there.

With the virtual Lisa turned off, open Preferences. Then click on the Ports tab, and then click the browse button next to the Parallel Port to open a File Open dialog box and navigate to it, changing the extension to * if needed.

You'll see something like C:\Users\username\Desktop\lisaem-profile.dc42 or whatever.

Then click Apply at the bottom of Preferences.

Then turn the virtual Lisa back on and you should see it show up in the Boot ROM's menu under the floppy.

[kewatsdop]

Yes, this is exactly what I'm doing now, to no avail. I even re-copied the image to Windows to eliminate any corruption that might have occurred on the way, but no... anyway, thank you.

[rayarachelian]

Yes, this is exactly what I'm doing now, to no avail. I even re-copied the image to Windows to eliminate any corruption that might have occurred on the way, but no... anyway, thank you.

There's one possibility I'm aware of. There's a bug with Windows but not macos where if the username contains non-ascii, unicode characters, such as accents and such, it will fail to find the path. This has to do with translating wxStrings to C strings.