It has drivers for, and emulates, floppy disks, HFS hard drives, CD-ROMs, Ethernet, Serial devices and much more.For example, you can “boot the Mac” emulator in less than a second. It looks and feels and even sounds exactly like a classic Macintosh, except for the fact that on my modern hardware it is shockingly fast - so from an emulation standpoint it’s not cycle accurate, it’s just software accurate if that makes sense.Some features of Basilisk II worth mentioning:
In my case, I decided to go the Mac II route with color since it most closely matches my Quadra 700’s environment. You can emulate either a “Mac Classic” machine running MacOS 0 through 7.5, or a Mac II series machine, which runs MacOS 7.x, 8.0 and 8.1. It’s an Open Source 68K Macintosh Emulator and it has been ported to run in Unix, Mac OS X, Windows, BeOS R4 and AmigaOS 3.x. My Quadra 700 Mhz running Dungeon Master 2 off CD-ROMįirst, let’s briefly take a look at what Basilisk II is and why it’s so cool in the first place.
