
  Basilisk II
  A 68k Macintosh emulator

  Copyright (C) 1997-2005 Christian Bauer et al.


License
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Basilisk II is available under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
See the file "COPYING.txt" that is included in the distribution for details.


Overview
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Basilisk II is an Open Source 68k Macintosh emulator. That is, it enables
you to run 68k MacOS software on you computer, even if you are using a
different operating system. However, you still need a copy of MacOS and
a Macintosh ROM image to use Basilisk II.

Basilisk II/JIT is Basilisk II with the JIT (Just In Time) Compiler
that Bernd "Bernie" Meyer initially developed for UAE then got further
improved for Basilisk II purposes.

NOTE: the JIT currently requires you to set 68040 emulation. Hence, it also
requires a Quadra ROM image. The JIT is not used in other cases, and (slow)
interpreter is used instead.


Documentation
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Please read the other Basilisk II documentation in the following directories:
- General documents
- Windows-specific documents


Windows port
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This is a new Windows port derived from Lauri's original port and the current
Basilisk II tree that is to become version 1.0. The major change resides in
the fact that it now requires an SDL library. You can get it at:
<http://www.libsdl.org/download-1.2.php>

The advantage is that's portable and has up-to-date features from the Unix
versions, namely runtime depth and resolution switching. However, graphics
performance is currently suboptimal. Everyone is invited to rewrite the
graphics subsystem with DirectX.

Also note that Windows 9X support is dropped. You will need at least a Windows
NT 4 kernel, though it was tested with Windows XP SP1.

Known issues:
- "My Computer" icon is no longer available
- "Keyboard type" option is always set to 5
- "Get Hardware Value" option is always set to true


GUI Preferences Editor
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There now is a new Preferences Editor using the GTK+2 toolkit. If you don't
have a GTK+2 runtime already installed on your system, I suggest you download
a nicely packaged one at: <http://gladewin32.sourceforge.net/>

For your information, the GUI is currently built with GTK+ 2.6.8. However,
you could use any runtime that suits you best. In particular, with respect
to other Windows/GTK applications you may use.

Gwenole Beauchesne
<gb.public@free.fr>