I'm writing this because the state of Macintosh emulation needs serious improvement, preferably before every working classic Mac dies out. SheepShaver and Basilisk II are two very related Macintosh emulators. They share the same developers, the same configuration program, and even the same source code repository. The difference is that SheepShaver targets newer PowerPC-based systems, while Basilisk II targets Motorola 68000 System 7-era systems. I haven't used SheepShaver much, but Basilisk II has some very nice features like TCP/IP support, and the ability to browse your local computer. I used Basilisk II a lot when writing my AOL article series, as for some reason only the Mac version of AOL gave me things to explore.īasilisk II on Windows at least comes with HFVExplorer, a nice-ish disk editor. It lets you browse Macintosh disk images, manage files and resources, and copy things in and out using a variety of conversion formats. (Macintosh files are strange, because they have a data fork and a resource fork, which is unlike almost every operating system today.) It's clunky, weird, and was last updated in 1999, but I appreciate it. It also comes with some Windows 95 drivers for the CD drive, a Windows NT compatible network driver (that you don't even need), along with some readmes from the year 2000. The Windows version refuses to start with no error message unless you've installed both SDL 1.2 and GTK 2, both very painfully obsolete libraries. Software compatibility is far from perfect, although it's often "good enough" for most use.
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