Basilisk Ii 68k Mac Emulator

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Basilisk II is an Open Source 68k Macintosh emulator. That is, it allows you to run 68k MacOS software on your computer, even if you are using a different operating system. However, you still need a copy of MacOS and a Macintosh ROM image to use Basilisk II. Basilisk II is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).


Basilisk II is an open source emulator of 68xxx-based Macintosh computers for Windows, OS X and Linux. With Basilisk II, one can boot Mac OS versions 7.x through 8.1. Ports of Basilisk II are available for Mac OS X, Windows, Linux and a number of lesser known systems. Users require a Macintosh ROM image and a copy of Mac OS to use with the emulator.


The initial alpha release of Basilisk II (for the Linux platform) was made on January 23, 1999 by Christian Bauer, who previously developed Frodo, a popular Commodore 64 emulator, Shapeshifter, a (obsolete) Macintosh emulator for the Amiga, and Basilisk, a (obsolete) Macintosh emulator for BeOS and Linux. The Windows port of the emulator was developed by Lauri Pesonen. At that time it competed with two commercial emulators: Microcode Solutions' Fusion and Emulators, Inc.'s SoftMac.


Both Mini vMac and SheepShaver are far superior emulators, though Basilisk II does fill the hole between 7.5 and 8.5 which some vintage software requires (along with a 68030/40 processor). However, I am specifically interested in running the Classic emulation because I want to be able to access the embedded system in the ROM among other things. That is one thing you can't do with a MacPlus. Just wanted to know if it was possible since I have never been able to get it to work and the documentation indicates it should be possible, but is not clear on the exact specifics.





I run Basilisk, try to set the colors to 8 bit, I got Quadra650 ROM and 68030 emulation, the screen size is 512x384, on iBook G4 10.4 ... but before delete old preferences, they are hidden in users directory (.basiliskIIpref_something like that)anyway, watch the videos of old mac runing apps on my youtube.com/slomacuser


And I've got a bit of a grudge against Darek Mihocka since he went on a holier-than-though slam against another emulator author because he seemed to consider him competition. The other author's product, an Atari 8-bit emulator for the Mac, got my shareware payment.


Once you're running on modern computers that are able to run an emulator faster than the original, I don't see any advantage in using a particular Mac's rom, other than perhaps the novelty value of ogling the About This Macintosh splash.


QEMU is a generic, extremely flexible emulator/virtualization application. It can be theoretically configured to run all kinds of guest operating systems on all kinds of hosts, not just Macs; but the forum users at Emaculation have put a lot of work into assembling QEMU builds specifically capable of PowerPC MacOSX emulation, a processor/OS combination that has generally hounded and confounded the emulation community for some time.


The Basilisk II GitHub page also has a Mac OS 9 emulator called SheepShaver which emulates later PowerPC CPU-based Macs. Mac OS 9.0, 9.1, and 9.2.1 which ran on PowerPC Macs were the final versions of Apple's classic OS before Apple released Mac OS X in 2000.


The first time you run Basilisk II, it will create an invisible prefs file at the root of your user folder named ".basilisk_ii_prefs". Although this file doesn't have any file extension, it's a plain text file which you can open with any text editor to change some of Basilisk II's settings.


A better way is to run the third-party 
Basilisk II Disk Image Chooser
 app. This app detects if you don't have any startup disk set in your emulator configuration - and if you don't it will prompt you with options to set one up:


If you reopen the .basili

Basilisk Ii 68k Mac Emulator

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