Basilik II for Unix (an alternative to Classic)

[theCaptain]

The thought recently occured to me that their is a Unix version of Basilik II that could be compiled to run on OS X. This would idealing present an alternative to Classic and allow you to truly emulate the Mac OS 8.1 operating system. The reason I suggest this is because, if the programs you want to use are 68k enabled this would be a much speedier method to run them in this emulation rather than classic. I suppose however this will mean a lot more when Basilik III is released allowing PowerPC emulation.

 

[dricci]

When/If Basilik ever hits half-decent PPC emulation, yes, this will be a great alternative to classic, if it can be ported to OS X.

I've used Basilik II on Windows 2000 and it was pretty neat. I ran Mac OS 8.1 on it and didn't really have too many problems, except I found that the hard drive files tend to get corupt sometimes. But it was kinda fun to mess with, a lot easier than reformating my old Power Mac when I feel like reinstalling a Classic OS.

I use several "unsupported" apps that will NEVER be ported to carbon or cocoa, so I'm stuck with running them in classic, meaning I'll have to keep classic on my hard drive for the rest of my life. But this would help that problem out quite a bit. It'd give you more control over the emulated environment, too.

Let's just hope for PowerPC support, first, then I'm sure a group will work on porting it to OS X.