The main weakness of SoftMac is that it’s only available for Windows Systems (perhaps Mac/Linux with WINE?)īecause SoftMac is already well documented on sites like Emaculation, I’m only going to describe the basics of how to setup Basilisk II and focus on how you can use it to add or remove files from the System 6.0.8 or System 7.5.5 bootable images available to download on my site. Basilisk II works best with volume images (file contains a single volume/partition), but can work with drive images that contain a single volume, but will corrupt drive images that have more than one volume. SoftMac supports true hard drive emulation, meaning that you can use SoftMac to initialize drive images (2.7GB or less) that contain the Macintosh Boot Driver and Partition Map and other information in their first 48k that would be found on a real bootable drive or disk (see Figure 1).Basilisk II only supports System 7.0 to 8.1 SoftMac supports System 1.1g to 8.1 (with the correct bios for emulating the correct system).Figure 1: Example contents of a drive image viewed in SoftMac using a patched version ofHD SC setup 7.3.5
