Over, you're ready to create a hard drive image, configure Basilisk Once you've installed Basilisk II and copied the ROM image file If you've started off with the ROMs from a black and white-only Version of the Mac ROMs you're using don't expect colour support Long enough to capture to a disk image file. On a permanent basis, installed into SoftMac's hardware card, or The first step is getting access to a genuine Mac ROMs - either Unlike commercial products for the Mac like Virtual PC, gettingīasilisk II up and running is a bit of a project. You're on her site, be sure to scroll down the page to the link for Windows versions are maintained by Lauri Pesonen. Linux, Solaris 2.5, FreeBSD 3.x, and IRIX 6.5), AmigaOS 3.x, and In this case, Basilisk II isĪvailable for BeOS R4 (both PowerPC and x86), x86 Unix (tested with Like many open source projects, versions have been developed forĪ variety of operating systems. Source project, originally written by Christian Bauer, andĭistributed under the GNU General Public License. Where SoftMac is marketed commercially, Basilisk II is an open Mac-floppy to a PC hard drive using SoftMac's free GemXplor file Requires Mac ROMs to work, either installed on a US$200 card soldīy the SoftMac people or (more commonly) with ROM image filesĬaptured with SoftMac's CopyROM utility (and transferred from a All are 680x0 emulators no one has releasedĮmulation software for a PowerPC CPU. As a result, it's notīasilisk II is one of several programs that try to emulateĪ Mac on PC hardware. That code and doesn't allow it to be shared. That define basic ways the computer is going to work. Things), the Mac Toolbox and QuickDraw, sets of software routines Macs have much more complex ROMs, containing (among other One step in creating a genuine fantasy PC. When Virtual PC boots up, it runs a licensed PC ROM BIOS as Possible the wide range of PC-clones that dominate that market Reverse-engineered the BIOS used in IBM's original PC, making By theĮarly 1980s, companies like Compaq and Phoenix had successfully On PCs, this is relatively simple and simple-minded. Runs in between the operating system and the processor's Heart of every computer is a relatively small amount of code which Turns out to be a much more difficult task. Running any of a wide range of PC operating systems and applicationīut what about the opposite, emulating a Mac on PC hardware? It PC has allowed Mac users to boot a PC on their Apple hardware, More recently, emulation software such as Connectix's Virtual Then known as Micro-Soft had its first sale. By March, Paul Allen was offered the title ofĭirector of software for MITS, and Gates and Allen's partnership, So they wrote an 8080 emulator, and used it to write the codeįor their BASIC. Information about the Altair's Intel 8080 processor. The problem was that they didn't have anĪltair - but they did have access to a Harvard computer lab and Of Popular Electronics, they set out to write a BASIC Pioneering MITS Altair personal computer in the January 1975 issue It was a completely different piece of hardware, is older thanįor instance, when Bill Gates and Paul Allen first read of the This site is in no way affiliated with Apple Computer, Inc.Emulation, using software to make one kind of computer act is if The Apple Logo, Macintosh™, Mac OS™, and others property of Apple Computer, Inc. Just thought some people here might find the guide useful!Ī guide, really easy to understand and helpful.Ī have been using BasiliskII with a Linux host system for some time and wouldĭon't miss the PPC emulation (Sheepshaver) with a Linux host system and MacOS 7.6,īecause that one is really fast and will run the more "modern" software like Office98 Basilisk II is an emulator of 68K Macintosh computers and a good way to play around with System 7 on a modern computer (there are OS X and Windows ports available, also). It is setup notes for, and some new builds of, Basilisk II for Linux. So here's something that I've been working on over at my own site: 68K Macintosh Emulation in Linux (Read 1994 times)
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