Basilisk II

(last updated October 12, 2009)

Basilisk II is an open source emulator of 68xxx-based Macintosh computers. 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, however, a Macintosh ROM image and a copy of Mac OS to use with the emulator.

We provide a setup guide for Basilisk II and a busy support forum.

• Basilisk II for Windows: 23 July, 2008.
• Basilisk II for Mac OS X: 4 October, 2009.

• Basilisk II for Mac OS X: 18 July, 2008
• Basilisk II for Windows May 1, 2006
• Basilisk II for Windows: pre-jit Build 142
• Basilisk II for Windows: pre-jit Build 94
• Archival releases for Windows and Mac OS X

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. At this time it competed with two commercial emulators: Microcode Solution's Fusion and Emulators, Inc.'s SoftMac.

Later development was carried out by Gwenole Beauchesne.

Beauchesne suspended his development of Basilisk II in April of 2008. Volunteers have contributed bug-fixes since then. Builds based on these fixes are listed here and in the Basilisk II forum.

• Basilisk II setup guide for Windows
• Basilisk II setup guide for OS X
• Getting online in Basilisk II for Windows
• Essential 68K Macintosh Software
• Support Forum

• Basilisk II 20060501 (the last official release)
• Basilisk II 20082708 (A newer, unofficial release. The recommended version.)
• Basilisk II build 142 (without JIT enhancements. From 2001.)
  
• Basilisk II build 94 (only version supporting Mac Classic emulation. From 1999.)

• Basilisk II 20060501 (last official build. A Universal Binary)
• Basilisk II 20081807 (A newer, unofficial build. The recommended version. A Universal Binary)

• Official Downloads (all other platforms, including Linux)
• HFVExplorer 1.31
• System 7 boot disk
• Stuffit Expander 5.5
• Graphical Disk Image Chooser (for the Mac OS X port)