BasiliskII

Description

Basilisk II is an Open Source 68k Macintosh emulator. That is, it enables you to run 68k MacOS software on you 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 (of course MacOS and Mac ROM are not included in this package).

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

• Copy and paste text between MacOS and the host OS (X11 clipboard)
• Ethernet driver
• Serial drivers
• SCSI Manager (old-style) emulation
• Emulates extended ADB keyboard and 3-button mouse

This version also features a JIT ("Just In Time") compiler, which speeds up the emulator by a factor of 10-15x with respect to the plain version.

Application availability

This application is available from the following Mandriva media:

2008.0 x86_64 contrib-release - View package information

cooker i586 contrib-release - View package information

cooker x86_64 contrib-release - View package information

2008.0 i586 contrib-release - View package information