Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux

Shoebill is described as '- a Macintosh II emulator that runs A/UX (and A/UX only)' and is an app. There are five alternatives to Shoebill for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and iPhone apps. The best Shoebill alternative is PCE, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Shoebill are Sheepshaver, Basilisk II, Mini vMac and AppleWin.

SheepShaver is a MacOS run-time environment for BeOS and Linux that allows you to run classic MacOS applications inside the BeOS/Linux multitasking environment. This means that both BeOS/Linux and MacOS applications can run at the same time (usually in a window on the BeOS/Linux...


Basilisk II is an Open Source 68k Macintosh emulator. That is, it allows you to run 68k MacOS software on your computer, even if you are using a different operating system. However, you still need a copy of MacOS and a Macintosh ROM image to use Basilisk II.




The Mini vMac emulator collection allows modern computers to run software made for early Macintosh computers, the computers that Apple sold from 1984 to 1996 based upon Motorola's 680x0 microprocessors. The first member of this collection emulates the Macintosh Plus.


AppleWin (also known as Apple //e Emulator for Windows) is an open source software emulator for running Apple II programs in Microsoft Windows. AppleWin was originally written by Mike O'Brien in 1994; O'Brien himself announced an early version of the emulator in April...

