| .TH BasiliskII 1 "January, 2002" |
| .SH NAME |
| BasiliskII \- a 68k Macintosh emulator |
| .SH SYNOPSIS |
| .B BasiliskII |
| [\-\-display |
| .IR display-name ] |
| [\-\-break |
| .IR offset ] |
| [\-\-rominfo] |
| .SH DESCRIPTION |
| .B 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. |
| |
| .B Basilisk II |
| : |
| .TP |
| - Emulates either a Mac Classic (which runs MacOS 0.x thru 7.5) or a Mac II series machine (which runs MacOS 7.x, 8.0 and 8.1), depending on the ROM being used |
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| - Color video display |
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| - CD quality sound output |
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| - Floppy disk driver (only 1.44MB disks supported) |
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| - Driver for HFS partitions and hardfiles |
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| - CD-ROM driver with basic audio functions |
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| - Easy file exchange with the host OS via a "Host Directory Tree" icon on the Mac desktop |
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| - Ethernet driver |
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| - Serial drivers |
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| - SCSI Manager (old-style) emulation |
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| - Emulates extended ADB keyboard and 3-button mouse |
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| - Uses UAE 68k emulation or (under AmigaOS and NetBSD/m68k) real 68k processor |
| .SH OPTIONS |
| .TP |
| .BI "\-\-display " display-name |
| specifies the display to use; see |
| .BR X (1) |
| .TP |
| .BI "\-\-break " offset |
| specifies a ROM offset where a breakpoint will be placed (for debugging) |
| .TP |
| .B \-\-rominfo |
| causes Basilisk II to print some information about the ROM being used on |
| startup (for debugging) |
| .TP |
| .B \-\-help |
| shows a complete list of options |
| .SH FILES |
| .TP |
| .I /usr/share/BasiliskII/keycodes |
| X server keycodes definitions. |
| .TP |
| .I /usr/share/BasiliskII/fbdevices |
| Framebuffer device specifications. |
| .TP |
| .I ~/.basilisk_ii_prefs |
| User-specific configuration file. |
| .TP |
| .I ~/.basilisk_ii_xpram |
| Contents of Mac non-volatile RAM. |
| .SH BUGS |
| Several. See the included "TODO" file. |
| .SH SEE ALSO |
| http://www.uni-mainz.de/~bauec002/B2Main.html (Basilisk II homepage) |
| .SH AUTHOR |
| Christian Bauer <Christian.Bauer@uni-mainz.de> |
| .SH COPYRIGHT |
| Copyright \(co 1997-2004 Christian Bauer et al. |
| |
| This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify |
| it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by |
| the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or |
| (at your option) any later version. |
| |
| This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, |
| but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of |
| MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the |
| GNU General Public License for more details. |
| |
| You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License |
| along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software |
| Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. |
