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SoftMac is a free, closed-source emulator of 68xxx based Macintosh computers, developed by Emulators, Inc. Users can run OS 7.0.1 to 8.1 within the emulated Macintosh.
Originally a commercial release, SoftMac is now available completely free of charge.
History of SoftMac
From E-Maculation:
SoftMac is developed by Emulators, Inc., a fairly old name in the Macintosh emulation field.
SoftMac spun off of Gemulator, an Atari emulator for Windows, which in 1997 was expanded to include emulation of the 68000 Macintosh classic. A 1999 release of Gemulator included a separate Macintosh emulator, now called SoftMac, which could emulate up to a 68040 Macintosh.
Early releases of Gemulator required that Macintosh ROM card be plugged into a free ISA slot on the host machine. Other emulators, such as Fusion and vMac emulator allowed users to just use a ROM file that could be dumped from a physical Mac (and therefore distributed illegally online). When SofftMac became a separate emulator, it did not require a physical ROM card.
SoftMac has been successful for many years (outlasting Fusion and ARDI's Executor as a commercial offering) but many users of online emulation discussion boards are highly critical of difficulties with SoftMac's support of sound and networking. Developer Darek Mihocka's defiant attitude toward online critics has solidified opposition to his company and products in some quarters.
The current stable release of SoftMac dates from 2002, although a beta from 2007 is currently available for public download. Mihocka has stated that although he has accomplished and publicly demonstrated the feat of PPC emulation in Windows, he will not be developing or releasing such an emulator at the present time.
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| Basilisk (Emulation Camp)
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(posted by [mailto:strano@homeshopping.com.br ZeroAge] - 14:54)<br><br>There's a new release of Basilisk for Windows NT/9x (it works better on NT) . Lots of fixes and more on this release , you should go to the homepage below for more info on it . Basilisk is a Macintosh emulator , and I think it's probably the best FREE one for Windows .
Link: [http://gamma.nic.fi/~lpesonen/BasiliskII/ Basilisk Homepage]
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| Basilisk II (Emulation Camp)
| 29/07/99
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(posted by [mailto:strano@homeshopping.com.br ZeroAge] - 22:53)<br><br>There's a new version of Basilisk II (a mac emulator for win) . It's supposed to be very good , but I couldn't run it (some weird bug) . Well , if you want a mac emulator with colors and don't want to pay for it (since executor and fusion are commercial) you should give this one a try . Here's what's new :<br><br>-1999-07-27 Lauri releases Windows port of Basilisk II v0.7. Now supports sound. Many fixes to FPU and one to the CPU. Option to set Cpu Id to 68030. Runs Open Transport.<br><br>Also , I would like to show you guys this [http://www.emucamp.com/extras/basili.jpg picture] . It's SoftWindows 1.0 running under Basilisk II running under Windows 98 running under Virtual PC running on a PowerMac . Thanks to the [http://www.kearney.net/~mhoffman/ OS Emulation Page ] for the pic and the news :) You should go there if you want info on emulators for mac and others :)<br>
Links: [http://gamma.nic.fi/~lpesonen/BasiliskII/ Basilisk II home page] - [http://www.emucamp.com/emus/mac/BasiliskII_win32_270799.zip Basilisk II Direct Download]
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| MAC (Emulation Camp)
| 28/07/99
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(posted by [mailto:luvdance5@aol.com uzplayer] - 09:16)<br><br>Version 0.7 of the Basilisk Emu (Macintosh Emu) has been released. Here's what's new:<br><br><SMALL>o with 32-bit clean ROMs, the CPU type is now reported as a 68030<br>(for those OpenTransport fans :-)<br>o added new prefs item "nosound" to disable sound output<br>o sound output implemented for BeOS, Linux, Solaris and AmigaOS<br>(requires Sound Manager 3.x) <br>o dummy/audio_dummy.cpp: created<br>o dummy/prefs_dummy.cpp: created <br>o dummy/xpram_dummy.cpp: created<br>o macos_util.cpp: added FileDiskLayout()<br>o video.cpp: removed useless BlankMousePointer flag<br>o uae_cpu: updated to UAE 0.8.9<br>o uae_cpu/gencpu.c: fixed bug in CAS2, OpenTransport works now<br>o Unix: moved Linux- and FreeBSD-specific files to their respective<br>directories <br>o Unix: added 64-bit data types (needed by timer_unix.cpp)<br>o Unix: added keyboard translation method using raw keycodes instead of keysyms (controlled by "keycodes" and "keycodefile" prefs items) which doesn't depend on the selected keymap<br>o Unix: when running as root, Basilisk II tries to assign real-time<br>priorities to some threads<br><br>o Unix: calls to nanosleep() protected by autoconf define<br>o Unix/main_unix.cpp: tick thread replaced by POSIX.4 timer then possible<br>o Unix/timer_unix.cpp: uses POSIX.4 timing facilities when possible<br>o Unix/video_x.cpp: all X calls during emulation are now done from<br>the redraw thread which is also active in DGA mode; as a result,<br>XLockServer()/XUnlockServer() are no longer necessary<br>o Unix/sysdeps.h: changed C++ comments to C comments as this file is<br>included by some *.c files in uae_cpu [Brian J. Johnson]<br>o Unix/sysdeps.h: added unaligned access functions for SGI MIPSPro<br>compiler [Brian J. Johnson]<br>o Unix/Irix/unaligned.c: created [Brian J. Johnson] <br>o Windows: updated sources</SMALL><br><br>You can get the BeOS, Unix, AmigaOS and/or Windows ports at the link below. Thanks to Cloy for the info.
Link: [http://www.uni-mainz.de/~bauec002/B2Main.html Basilisk Emu Website]
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