Available portsīasilisk II has been ported to the following systems: 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). Basilisk II is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).įor more information, see the README file. However, you still need a copy of MacOS and a Macintosh ROM image to use Basilisk II. That is, it allows you to run 68k MacOS software on your computer, even if you are using a different operating system. What is Basilisk II?īasilisk II is an Open Source 68k Macintosh emulator. Note: For a more up-to-date fork, check out. Releases are made available by the community. While adding MMU emulation has been discussed, the feature has not been added because of the effort required in implementing it, the impact on performance it will have and the lack of time on the part of the developers.This repository contains the Basilisk II and SheepShaver projects. SheepShaver is capable of running Mac OS 7.5.2 through 9.0.4 (though it needs the image of an Old World ROM to run Mac OS 8.1 or below ), and can be run inside a window so that the user can run classic Mac OS and either BeOS, Intel-based Mac OS X, Linux, or Windows applications at the same time.Īlthough SheepShaver does have Ethernet support and CD-quality sound output, it does not emulate the memory management unit.

'Chubby Bunny' also simplifies the set up process of OS 9 visualization on Intel Macs running OS X.

‘Sheep Shaver Wrapper’ is built off of Sheep Shaver but it does some of the bundling work for the user.

Īs a free software, a few variants exist to simplify the installation process on Intel-based Macs: SheepShaver has also been ported to Microsoft Windows. It can be run on both PowerPC and x86 systems however, it runs more slowly on an x86 system than on a PowerPC system, because of the translation between the PowerPC and Intel x86 instruction sets. SheepShaver was originally commercial software when first released in 1998, but after the demise of Be Inc., the maker of BeOS, it became open source in 2002.

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