Recomp / OS & system / Macintosh
Basilisk II and SheepShaver
Maintained fork of the Basilisk II (68k) and SheepShaver (PowerPC) Mac emulators, which need an original Mac ROM.
Emulation-hosted Human-led releasedFacts
- Original
- 68k and PowerPC Macintosh (1984)
- Platform
- Macintosh
- Method
- Emulation-hosted
- Provenance
- Human-led · Christian Bauer's emulators, maintained by kanjitalk755 what this means
- Status
- released
- Licence
- GPL-2.0
- Team
- kanjitalk755, cebix
- Started
- 1997
- Runs on
- Windows, macOS, Linux
- Needs the original
- Yes: you supply your own legally obtained copy
How to get it legally
This project ships code only. Build or download it from the official repository, then supply data from a copy of 68k and PowerPC Macintosh you own. Recomp never links to ROMs, discs or game data.
This project was rebuilt by kanjitalk755, cebix. Facts last checked 2026-10-13.
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