Basiliska Mac OS
Screenshot of Macintosh System Software 7.5.5 and Finder running in Basilisk II | |
| Developer(s) | Christian Bauer, Nigel Pearson (OS X port), Gwenole Beauchesne (JIT version) |
|---|---|
| Initial release | 1999; 22 years ago |
| Final release | |
| Repository | |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Type | Emulator |
| License | GNU General Public License |
| Website | basilisk.cebix.net |
Basilisk II has currently been ported to the following systems: - BeOS R4 (PowerPC and x86) - Unix (tested under Linux, Solaris 2.x, FreeBSD 3.x, NetBSD 1.4.x and IRIX 6.5) - AmigaOS 3.x - Windows NT 4.0 (mostly works under Windows 95/98, too) - Mac OS X 10.1 thru 10.4 Some features of Basilisk II: - Emulates either a Mac Classic (which runs.
As of MacOS Catalina, Macintosh computers no longer support 32-bit Apps. This is unfortunate, because the Eschalon series is written in a defunct language called BlitzMax, which is no longer supported and never had a 64-bit compiler. What that means is the Eschalon games are not going to work on the latest version of MacOS. Basilisk II is a 68k Macintosh emulator for Mac OS X. It emulates 68000 thru 68040 based Macs and it can be used to run Mac OS 7 thru Mac OS 8.1. All Basilisk builds have in common that they require a Mac ROM in order to work as intended.
Basilisk II is an emulator which emulates Apple Macintosh computers based on the Motorola 68000 series.[1][2] The software is cross-platform and can be used on a variety of operating systems.
Christian Bauer (developer of a Mac 68k emulator ShapeShifter for Amiga) released the first version of Basilisk II in March 1999. New emulator should be highly portable across several computing platforms[3]:36 and provided some improvements in comparison to ShapeShifter - e.g. no limit for number of emulated disks, improved CD-ROM support and support for the host file system.[4] However, early reviews highlighted several issues like difficult configuration and limited compatibility with recommendation of ShapeShifter as a better choice for Amiga users.[3]:37[4] Newer releases mitigated these problems, 2005 review of the MorphOS version noted only slow CPU emulation (in comparison to built-in 68k CPU emulation for Amiga applications in MorphOS) as a major issue.[5]:25
The latest version of Mac OS that can be run within Basilisk II is Mac OS 8.1,[6] the last 680x0-compatible version. Newer Mac OS versions are incompatible because they require a PowerPC-based processor, which Basilisk II cannot emulate.
Ports of Basilisk II exist for multiple computing platforms, including AmigaOS 4, BeOS, Linux, Amiga, Windows NT, Mac OS X, MorphOS and mobile devices such as the PlayStation Portable.
Released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Basilisk II is free software, and its source code of is available on GitHub.[7]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^'How to Emulate an Old Mac on a New Mac or PC'. PC Magazine. Retrieved 2020-05-11.
- ^'How to run old software and games on your Mac'. TechRadar. Retrieved 2020-05-11.
- ^ abNěmec, Luboš (July–August 1999). 'Basilisk II v0.5'. Amiga Review (in Czech). No. 46–47. Atlantida Publishing. pp. 36–37. ISSN1211-1465.
- ^ abCompton, Jason (March 2000). 'Basilisk II-0.8.1'. Amiga Active. No. 6. Pinprint Publishing. p. 26. ISSN1467-3533.
- ^Schmitz, Ingo (July–August 2005). 'Basilisk II'. Amiga Future (in German). No. 55. APC&TCP. pp. 24–25.
- ^McCallister, Michael (2006). SUSE Linux 10 Unleashed. Sams Publishing. p. 196. ISBN0672327260.
- ^'GitHub - cebix/Macemu: Basilisk II and SheepShaver Macintosh emulators'. 9 May 2020.
External links[edit]
- Official website
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