General information
What is Basilisk II?
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).
For more information, see the README file.
If you are interested in learning how Basilisk II works internally, there is
a Technical Manual
available (knowledge about programming and computer architecture is required).
Available ports
Basilisk II has been ported to the following systems:
- 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
Some features of Basilisk II
- 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
Download Basilisk II
CVS snapshots and precompiled binaries
Release 0.9-1 (31.May 2001)
Ports to other systems
Anonymous CVS access
To download the current version of the sources via CVS:
$ cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@cvs.cebix.net:/home/cvs/cebix login
(password is "anoncvs")
$ cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@cvs.cebix.net:/home/cvs/cebix checkout BasiliskII
For Unix users, there is an
autogen.sh script that creates
the files necessary for building which are not in CVS.
A
Web interface
to the CVS repository is also available.
