Basilisk II
(last updated February 9, 2009)
Description
Basilisk II is an open source emulator of 68xxx-based Macintosh computers. 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.
We provide a setup guide for Basilisk II (Windows) and a busy support forum.
Latest Versions
- Basilisk II for Windows: 23 July, 2008.
- Basilisk II for Mac OS X: 4 October, 2009.
Historic Versions
- Archive of JIT releases for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X
- Archive of test JIT releases for Windows and Mac OS X
- pre-jit Build 142 for Windows (use if you have the “black screen” problem)
- pre-jit Build 94 for Windows
- Archive of older releases for Windows, Linux, BeOS, AmigaOS, IRIX, Solaris, etc
Documentation and Guides
- Basilisk II setup guide for OS X (offline)
Helpful Files
- HFVExplorer 1.31 (used with Basilisk II for Windows)
- Graphical Disk Image Chooser (used with Basilisk II for Mac OS X)
- SDL 1.2 Libraries (used with Basilisk II for Windows)
- GTK +2 Runtime (used with Basilisk II for Windows)
History
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 this time it competed with two commercial emulators: Microcode Solution's Fusion and Emulators, Inc.'s SoftMac.
Later development was carried out by Gwenole Beauchesne.
Beauchesne suspended his development of Basilisk II in April of 2008. Volunteers have contributed bug-fixes since then. Builds based on these fixes are listed here and in the Basilisk II forum.
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