Basilisk II

Basilisk II is an open source emulator which emulates Macintosh computers based on Motorola 68k processors. The software is and can be used on a variety of operating systems. It has become useful for Mac OS X and macOS users as the Classic environment was discontinued since Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard).
==History==
Basilisk II is the successor to "ShapeShifter", an earlier Mac emulator for .ShapeShifter - A 68k Mac emulator for AmigaOS by Christian Bauer. Archived 2005-10-24. Alpha versions became available in January 1999 with the first non-alpha release in October of the same year. The latest version of classic Mac OS that can be run within Basilisk II is Mac OS 8.1, the last 680x0-compatible version. Newer versions are incompatible because they require a PowerPC-based processor, which Basilisk II does not emulate. SheepShaver is an alternative that emulates PowerPC-based systems that run classic Mac OS.
Ports of Basilisk II exist for multiple s, including , BeOS, Linux, Mac OS X, , Windows NT, and s such as the .
Released under the terms of the , Basilisk II is freeware, and its source code is available on , along with that of SheepShaver.Basilisk II and SheepShaver Macintosh emulators, GitHub. 2020-05-04.
==See also==
* Advanced Mac Substitute
* Mini vMac
* PearPC
* QEMU
==References==
==External links==
*Basilisk II official site
*Basilisk II at the E-Maculation wiki
**Basilisk II at the E-Maculation forum
* at Wikipedia
Category:Emulators
Category:Freeware
Category:GNU GPL
Category:Mac OS X software
Category:1999 introductions