BasiliskII-jit1

Usage

Overview

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.

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

- Ethernet driver

- Serial drivers

- SCSI Manager (old-style) emulation

- Emulates extended ADB keyboard and 3-button mouse

- Uses UAE 68k emulation or (under AmigaOS and NetBSD/m68k) real 68k processor

Options

--display display-name

specifies the display to use; see X(1)

--break offset

specifies a ROM offset where a breakpoint will be placed (for debugging)

--rominfo

causes Basilisk II to print some information about the ROM being used on startup (for debugging)

--help

shows a complete list of options

Files

/usr/share/BasiliskII/keycodes

X server keycodes definitions.

/usr/share/BasiliskII/fbdevices

Framebuffer device specifications.

~/.basilisk_ii_prefs

User-specific configuration file.

~/.basilisk_ii_xpram

Contents of Mac non-volatile RAM.