Basilisk II supports various Mac color displays and peripheral drivers. It will also connect
to the Internet and your LAN.
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However, the task is not for the faint of heart. You will need to create Linux-readable Mac
floppies to copy the ROM image. You will need to compile Basilisk II from source. You
may have to download and install a new copy of the MacOS. Fortunately, you will find an
excellent companion for this journey in ???Basilisk II for Linux??”Getting It Going from
Start to Finish,??? a tutorial from Marc Hoffman at http://os-emulation.net/basiliskII/
system753_tutorial/linux/. Several support forums exist at the Sourceforge project page,
http://sourceforge.net/projects/basilisk/. Click the Forums tab.
Using dosemu and DOSBox
DOSBox and the venerable dosemu are DOS emulators you can install with YaST. dosemu
can run all sorts of DOS programs, and it comes with a GPL version of DOS, called
FreeDOS. DOSBox comes with a graphics package, making it particularly suitable for
running games. If you are lucky enough to have a spare copy of Windows 3.
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