Overview
Fork targeting Raspberry Pi with SDL2 framebuffer/KMS — no X11, no desktop required. It includes ARM64 JIT implementations for both emulators: Basilisk II for 68K Macs and SheepShaver for PowerPC Macs. Pre-built arm64 .deb packages are available in releases.
How it works
SDL2 is compiled without OpenGL, Wayland, and X11 to reduce dependencies and startup time. The framebuffer/KMS backend writes directly to the display without a compositor. The key addition is ARM64 JIT support in both emulator cores, translating 68K code in Basilisk II and PowerPC code in SheepShaver to native ARM64 at runtime. Pre-built .deb packages install with dpkg -i. Used as the emulation layer in the Maclock project.
Features
Raspberry Pi optimised
SDL2 framebuffer/KMS, no X11. Pi Zero through Pi 5.
Pre-built packages
arm64 .deb in GitHub Releases. dpkg -i and run.
Basilisk II ARM64 JIT
Native ARM64 JIT backend for emulating 68K Macs.
SheepShaver ARM64 JIT
Native ARM64 JIT backend for emulating PowerPC Macs.
Direct framebuffer
Lower latency than X11.
Architecture
Posts
2026-05-11
Notes for May 3-10
2026-05-03
Notes for April 27 – May 3
2026-05-03
macintosh-mini
2026-04-26
Notes for April 20-26
2026-04-05
Notes for March 30 – April 5
2026-03-29
Notes for March 23-29
2025-12-31
Notes for December 25-31
2024-07-21
Notes for July 15-21