Shoebill

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Shoebill
Hardware Emulated Macintosh II
Guest Operating System(s) A/UX
Host Platform(s) OS X
Type Emulator
Available As Source
Website github.com/pruten/shoebill

Shoebill is an Apple Macintosh II emulator, intended to run Apple Unix and the first emulator capable of doing so. As of May 2014, Shoebill is still very new and is not yet complete, but is able to host A/UX versions 1.1.1 to 3.0.

Emulation State

Hardware Emulated Notes
CPU Yes Motorola 68020 + 68881 FPU
MMU Partial Motorola 68851 MMU
Graphics Yes Standard 8-bit NuBus graphics adapter
Sound No
Floppy Disk No
Hard Disk Yes NCR 5380 SCSI
CD/DVD Yes NCR 5380 SCSI
Keyboard/Mouse Yes Apple Desktop Bus
Serial No
Network No
PRAM No

Emulation Checklist

Requirement Critical Notes
Shoebill Yes Download here
Apple Macintosh II series ROM Yes Mac II and IIx ROMs are noted to work with Shoebill, IIcx ROMs are listed as untested
A/UX 1.x - 3.0 Yes Versions higher than 3.0 do not yet work (May 2014)

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