Basilisk II

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The current homepages for Basillisk is here. The JIT version can be found here.

Basilisk is more featured then Mini vMac, however it is far more complicated to setup.

  • NOTE you will need a ROM from a 680x0 based Macintosh.


Features

  • Emulates either a Mac Classic (which runs MacOS 0.x thru 7.5) or a Mac II series machine (which runs MacOS 7.x, 8.0 and 8.1), depending on the ROM being used
  • Color video display
  • CD quality sound output
  • Floppy disk driver (only 1.44MB disks supported)
  • Driver for HFS partitions and hardfiles
  • CD-ROM driver with basic audio functions
  • Easy file exchange with the host OS via a "Host Directory Tree" icon on the Mac desktop
  • Ethernet driver
  • Serial drivers
  • SCSI Manager (old-style) emulation
  • Emulates extended ADB keyboard and 3-button mouse
  • Uses UAE 68k emulation or (under AmigaOS and NetBSD/m68k) real 68k processor


Platforms

  • Unix with X11 (Linux i386/x86_64, Solaris 2.5, FreeBSD 3.x, IRIX 6.5)
  • Mac OS X (PowerPC and Intel)
  • Windows NT/2000/XP
  • BeOS R4 (PowerPC and Intel)
  • AmigaOS 3.x