(Which can make Sheepshaver a little bit of a pain because it has a hard limit of 9.0.4. Really the only requirement is that you need a ROM image from a supported Mac (although in the case of SheepShaver and OSes newer than 8.5 you can usually use the New World ROM image that comes on the installation disk) and installation media or images for a supported OS.

Googling something like 'Sheepshaver Ubuntu' will net you plenty of resources for setting up the emulators if the links already thrown out are not enough. Your Mac emulation can run inside a window or if you're so inclined you can let it occupy the full screen, and both BasikiskII and Sheepshaver have a feature that allows you to map a virtual drive inside the emulated machine to a directory on the host filesystem, allowing you to drag and drop files between the two systems. (Simply because Linux/X11 is the native development platform, the other versions are ports.) But any will work. You install the application, point it at the ROM and disk image, and you're off.īoth SheepShaver (PowerPC, runs up to 9.0.4) and BasiliskII (68k, runs up to 8.1) work fine under Linux, and I'd actually argue they're better under Linux than they are under either OS X *or* Windows. To use them you need a ROM image and a disk image (which is just a data file that acts as the hard disk for the running machine).

Click to expand.They're not 'OSes in their own right', they're just applications.

Mac 68k emulator for os9