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).
Basilisk II is an open source emulator of 68xxx-based Macintosh computers for Windows, OS X and Linux. 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.
Basilisk Ii 68k Mac Emulator
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 that time it competed with two commercial emulators: Microcode Solutions' Fusion and Emulators, Inc.'s SoftMac.
Hello,First time I'm attempting to mess with mac emulators and I'm particularly interested on the m68k ones. Please correct me if I'm wrong but it seems that 68k Mac emulation is kind of stuck in time. As far as I know my options are Basilisk II or Mini vMac. I also saw some youtube videos of people playing older 68k games using QEMU, and it seems that it also supports 68k emulation.So, what do you guys recommend for playing the following games (I use windows btw)?
Hi, it depends.. General speaking, a Power Mac with OS 9.x, a supported graphics card and a Motorola 68040 FPU emulator gives good results. Esp. in 640x480 resolution.However, 32-Bit QuickDraw might be an issue with certain titles.
Thanks everyone,I tried some emulators myself, here are the results:Basilisk II:-Prince of Persia 1 - Runs full speed with music and sound-Prince of Persia 2 - Runs full speed, but music is slow-Blackthorne - Does not run (error 1415)-Warcraft - Couldn't try since I was too lazy to make CD-ROM work-Marathon - Runs surprisingly well, but mouse twitches a lot (may be the KVM switch I use)It runs pretty well in general, but it was kind of a pain to set up.
Executor (not exactly an emulator but I had to try it):-Prince of Persia 1 - Runs full speed and with soundThe other games didn't work...Blackthorne hangs up while loading and the other games crash to DOSTried running on an retro computer with MS-DOS, it's the easiest one to setup since you don't need any Mac OS installation and ROM.
Fusion PC:This is an old emulator from around 2000, and it also runs in pure DOS. It was a pain to setup... I used Dosbox to install the OS and copy the games, then copied the image to my retro machine. But it was worth it I guess:-Prince of Persia 1 - Runs full speed and with sound-Prince of Persia 2- Runs full speed and almost with functional music (it's a bit slow at some points, but still a little better than on Basilisk II)-Blackthorne - Does not work, same error 14 I get from Basilisk II-Warcraft - Runs full speed, but CD audio is not working-Marathon - Runs fine, mouse also works better still sucksSo far this is my favorite 68K mac emulator simply because I can run it under pure DOS. Since DOS is a single task OS, it feels much more like I'm using a "real" Mac OS
Fusion PC:This is an old emulator from around 2000, and it also runs in pure DOS. It was a pain to setup... I used Dosbox to install the OS and copy the games, then copied the image to my retro machine. But it was worth it I guess:-Prince of Persia 1 - Runs full speed and with sound-Prince of Persia 2- Runs full speed and almost with functional music (it's a bit slow at some points, but still a little better than on Basilisk II)-Blackthorne - Does not work, same error 14 I get from Basilisk II-Warcraft - Runs full speed, but CD audio is not working-Marathon - Runs fine, mouse also works betterSo far this is my favorite 68K mac emulator simply because I can run it under pure DOS. Since DOS is a single task OS, it feels much more like I'm using a "real" Mac OS
How the WPMac68K Appliance differs from a real Mac:The Basilisk II emulator works more or less like any real 68K Mac. The only significant differences between this system and your ancient 68K Mac are these:
Q. Why can't this system connect to the Internet, or at least to the rest of my network? A. Networking in Macintosh emulators is at best slow and at worst unstable. If you want to add networking components from a Mac OS installation CD, feel free to do so. But I think you will be wasting your time.
I'm currently using the absolutely ancient "Fusion" emulator to emulate a 68k Macintosh (specifically, a Quadra 700), but it only runs under MS-DOS, so I'm using a VirtualBox VM to emulate that. I'd like to eliminate one layer of emulation.
Basilisk II is a Macintosh 68k emulator that allows you to run the classic Macintosh OS and applications on modern computers. These downloads are fully configured versions of Basilisk II that include the required ROM as well as a hard drive image with Mac OS 8.1 and various applications.
Basilisk II is the de facto official emulator of the MacOS 68k environment. It's important to note that the emulator is highly customized toward running MacOS inside it, and will not handle AU/X or modern UNIXes written for 68k Macs. See the Wikipedia article for more information. Guides and compatibility tables and so on will be posted here later.
SheepShaver is a MacOS run-time environment for BeOS and Linux that allows you to run classic MacOS applications inside the BeOS/Linux multitasking environment. This means that both BeOS/Linux and MacOS applications can run at the same time (usually in a window on the BeOS/Linux desktop) and data can be exchanged between them. If you are using a PowerPC-based system, applications will run at native speed (i.e. with no emulation involved). There is also a built-in PowerPC emulator for non-PowerPC systems.
Before the current OS for Apple systems (MacOS X), there were earliest OS versions that were simply know as MacOS. MacOS and MacOS X are not that compatible, so if you need to run old MacOS programs or files then you need an MacOS emulator.
A recent job at the Mac Museum proved the usefulness of emulators again. My client was using an early 1990s graphics program called Imagic to process satellite weather maps. He had created many custom macros to process the data, but the application was long abandoned and would only run on 68k based Macs. So for over two decades he has been juggling a small stable of Quadras to run this software, which got older and more finicky over time.
For best results you should try to emulate the processor type and operating system that your software was designed for. Configuration steps vary, see the Setup Guides for each emulator for details. Macintosh Garden has a good summary of how to install software into your emulator.
One thing all these emulators have in common is the need for a Macintosh ROM file to be available. Emaculation has a summary of methods for extracting ROM files from existing Macs or otherwise obtaining the images.
A ton of Macintosh emulators have appeared over the years, some early in the system's release (mostly for competing m68k microcomputers) and others as late as a few years ago. As a PC platform in its own right with its own userbase and varying degrees of unique software and hardware features, most major emulators of other platforms maintain a macOS port, or are ported to macOS by external collaborators, in addition to a number of emulators originating on the Mac over the years. It should be noted that we do not aim to be the last word on Mac emulation; there's a community called E-Maculation that covers this more thoroughly, as they offer builds for many of the emulators shown here on their forums. We'll either be further ahead or severely behind.
Currently, no 3rd-party Macintosh emulators support hardware graphics acceleration, due to certain CPU instructions left unimplemented in their upstream PPC softcores. This means no GLIDE, RAVE, or OpenGL. Fortunately, though as was generally the case in every platform of the period significant visual and feature differences exist between the two, the majority of Mac-exclusive software using these APIs also included software fallback renderers.
I have long been trying to find a fully-fledged 68k Macintosh emulator that can run System 7 and older, with support for sound and serial port communications. Mini vMac does not suit my requirements due to lack of serial port emulation. Basilisk II, despite being a very capable emulator with support for Ethernet, does not officially support 24-bit addressing and hence will not be able to run Mac systems older than 7.5.5, at least not without the MODE32 extension.
Fortunately things changed when I came across PCE/macplus, a highly customizable emulator that can emulate many 68k compact Macintosh models from the Macintosh 128K/512K up to the Macintosh SE. Serial emulation, which is what I need, is also supported as well. This article will describe my various experiments with PCE/macplus and share some interesting findings.
Running PCE/macplus on Windows should be straight forward. Just extract the ZIP file, locate the run.bat batch script, and execute it. With some luck, you should be able to see your favorite 68k Macintosh system on the emulator screen shortly. However, since many exciting features of PCE/macplus such as PPP emulation via the serial port will not be supported on Windows, with some time at hand, I decided to spend some time compiling PCE/macplus for Ubuntu, my favourite Linux distro to be able to explore its full set of features. 2ff7e9595c
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