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If you have an all-in-one classic Mac, you can simply plug it into the back of their external floppy drive port.įor the Lisa, or Macs like my Quadra 700 which only have 1 internal port on the motherboard for the original internal floppy drive, Steve created an additional little doo-dad A/B switch that lets you use both the Floppy Emu and the internal drive, and switch between the two (you can’t use both simultaneously, however. I got the BMOW Floppy Emu Deluxe Bundle which comes with the assembled floppy emu model c device, a frosted acrylic case which I needed to assemble, an SD card with pre-installed handy vintage Apple and Mac software, and a DB-19 disk extension cable. Disk image file is compatible with popular software-based Mac emulators. Supports bootable hard disk images up to 2GB. Macintosh Hard Disk – HD20 hard disk emulation is compatible with the Macintosh 512K, 512Ke, Plus, SE (not SE/30), Classic, Classic II, Portable, IIci, IIsi, or LC I. Compatible with the original Mac 128K through the Mac II series and Power Mac. Disk image files are the same format as those used with popular software-based Mac emulators like Mini vMac. Macintosh Floppy – Supports 400K, 800K, and 1.4MB floppy disk images, in raw. Four years ago he produced and now sells what he calls the Floppy Emu. Steve Chamberlin, a computer engineer and software developer who goes by the moniker BMOW, or Big Mess O’ Wires, is an expert in the Apple II and Macintosh. Next, let’s take a look at the Classic Mac, and talk about the hardware you’ll want to use on that side. There’s a bit more to it that that, but we’ll come back to Basilisk in a moment. This is how you can easily move files back and forth between the two environments. Any file you drop into Shared, will be accessible within the Unix folder in Basilisk, and vice versa. Inside Basilisk, there will be folder on its desktop called Unix. Once Basilisk II is installed you’ll have created a folder on your modern Mac’s desktop called “ Shared”. Just go through the fantastic guide and you should be ready to go in about 30 minutes or so. If I can figure it out, I’m sure you can, too.

#BASILISK II HARD DISK IMAGE INSTALL#

To install Basilisk, you need to follow some very specific steps and I highly recommend you check out ’s excellent guide ( Mac, Windows, Linux). You know, like Word 5.1, Photoshop 3.0 or perhaps Infocom’s Mac-exclusive RPG Quarterstaff.

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Most importantly (for me) it provides a pathway for file exchange between my MacBook Pro and my old classic Quadra 700, the painfully gorgeous Jurassic Park Computer.īut of course you could also download software from the internet and run it right inside of Basilisk if you don’t have any classic hardware anymore and want to get your Macintosh fix.

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It has drivers for, and emulates, floppy disks, HFS hard drives, CD-ROMs, Ethernet, Serial devices and much more.For example, you can “boot the Mac” emulator in less than a second. It looks and feels and even sounds exactly like a classic Macintosh, except for the fact that on my modern hardware it is shockingly fast - so from an emulation standpoint it’s not cycle accurate, it’s just software accurate if that makes sense.Some features of Basilisk II worth mentioning: In my case, I decided to go the Mac II route with color since it most closely matches my Quadra 700’s environment. You can emulate either a “Mac Classic” machine running MacOS 0 through 7.5, or a Mac II series machine, which runs MacOS 7.x, 8.0 and 8.1.

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It’s an Open Source 68K Macintosh Emulator and it has been ported to run in Unix, Mac OS X, Windows, BeOS R4 and AmigaOS 3.x. My Quadra 700 Mhz running Dungeon Master 2 off CD-ROMįirst, let’s briefly take a look at what Basilisk II is and why it’s so cool in the first place.

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