Basilisk II for the Vita
Basilisk II is a multi-platform Mac II emulator whose code is released under the terms of the GPL v2.
* Emulates a Mac II series machine running OS 7.0.1 through 8.1, depending on the ROM used.
* Uses UAE CPU emulation, with new SoftFloat FPU emulation for better compatibility.
* Supports on-the-fly change of colors and resolution (requires Display Manager).
* Has stereo, 16-bit, 44kHz audio (requires Sound Manager 3.0).
* Supports emulated floppy and CDROM with removable media (no CD audio yet).
* Supports up to four hardfiles for use as fixed drives.
* Emulates a Mac Extended ADB keyboard and mouse. Buttons can be remapped on-the-fly.
* Bluetooth keyboard and mouse support.
* On-screen overlay keyboard that controlled with Vita buttons.
* Analog joystick pointer movement with adjustable speed and deadzone
* Touch pointer controls (front/rear panel) with gestures and selectable direct/indirect mode
Install the vpk in the usual way. Copy the Basilisk II folder in the archive to ux0:data.
If you look at the folder, you'll see the following:
(directories)
cdroms
disks
files
hardfiles
imaps
roms
(files)
BasiliskII_prefs
imaps/default
imaps/dpad_mouse
The cdroms folder is where you copy the bin/cue dumps of Mac CDROMs you wish to use with the emulation. These should be standard MODE1 ISO dumps, not raw dumps. The extension for CDROM images are normally “.bin”, “.iso”, or “.img”.
The disks folder is where you copy floppy images you wish to use with the emulation. These are plain dumps of 1.44 MB high-density Mac or PC format microfloppy disks. PC format requires the appropriate Mac extension to read, such as MacLink (part of OS 8). All files in this folder should have an extension of “.dsk”.
The files folder is mounted on the Mac desktop when enabled in the settings. Files in this folder should be in AppleDouble, hqx, and binhex format.
The hardfiles folder contains the files that are used as fixed hard disks in the emulation. They can be virtually any size, but will generally be between 200 and 400 MB as a basic installation of OS8 takes about 120 MB. You can have any number of files in this directory, but only a maximum of four can be selected at one time. The extension of files in this folder should b “.hfv”, but may also have no extension at all.
The imaps folder holds the input maps for remapping the Vita buttons into Mac input events. This will be explained later.
The roms folder holds the Mac ROM images you might use with the emulation. You select one image in the emulation setup. They can have any file name, but a typical extension is “.rom”.
BasiliskII_prefs is a sample preferences file.
Note: No Apple Macintosh ROMs or software of any sort is included with this program. You'll have to find them yourself. This emulator is useless without a ROM and MacOS.