MAC CLASSIC EMULATOR SHUFFLEPUCK MAC OS
We then set the Boot From to CD-ROM and insert a mac os 8.5 CD and click Start. We select the Volume tab and click Create and createa 80 mb 'volume' called mac. Next in basilisk we need to create a mac volume. First we decide to create a basilisk folder in our home directory and copy the executable there and also the quadra and performa rom files. This has a lot more settings so we need to remember what we did before.
MAC CLASSIC EMULATOR SHUFFLEPUCK INSTALL
We also used the package manager to install Basilisk2 which puts itself into /usr/bin so you have to root around the filesystem to find the executable file. This is not designed to emulate a recent mac but to enable you to run very old software of which there is a bunch stored around here. Once we open it the 'Welcome to Macintosh' splash screen appears and we are running a mac with system 7 and 4mb of ram. We have a hard disk image formatted with the mac hfs file system that is 24mb in size.
When you click on the app to run it you get a window called mini vmac and from here you can select a disk image from the file menu. It is easy to create disk images with macs and once i sort through the boxes of old mac cd and floppies i should be able to find some really old neat stuff like shufflepuck and mac write and mac draw.The application we found is Mini Vmac.exe which means we can run it under Wine - so we have linux emulating windows emulating a mac. The mac-on-a-stick folder now contains a number of disk images and the rom file from a plus. The fundamental technical difference is that Basilisk II doesn’t emulate hardware, but patches the drivers in ROM, while Mini vMac emulates the hardware (with the exception of the floppy drive). The biggest current difference is that Mini vMac emulates the earliest Macs, while Basilisk II emulates later 680x0 Macs. This uses the Mini vMac emulator to emulate a black and white mac plus. While researching programs for windows that could run off a USB stick without being installed we ran across mac-on-a-stick at We have everything from a mac portable, mac plus, se, se/30, iisi, iici, 650, 680, 6100, 8550, color classic, 475, 575, 580, LC II, LC III, and so forth and some clones.īefore we got to test that we found something else we had to try. We found the CD we had stored the rom chips extracted from our bevy of beige machines. While it only emulated a motorola 040 mac and not a power pc cpu there were still lots of useful software it could run. We had run Basilisk years ago on XP and found it useful.