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Macintosh emulators are a convenient way to run a vintage Mac OS on your modern system. However, the disk images created by these emulators are often not designed for real Macs and do not emulate SCSI. Therefore, they may not contain the SCSI driver partition that real Macs require and won’t be of any use on a BlueSCSI.

Thankfully, there is an easy solution that lets you use a BlueSCSI compatible disk image with most of these emulators to quickly load software, transfer files, or install an operating system onto that disk image.

Refer to the list of emulators below for specific compatibility information.

Macintosh Emulators

Basilisk II / Sheep Shaver

These emulators don’t emulate SCSI, but they can use a BlueSCSI image that was created outside of the emulator.

You MUST create the image from Disk Jockey (choose "BlueSCSI" or "RaSCSI" under the "use with" section) or use one of the pre-made blanks on the BlueSCSI Images page for this to work properly. These images include the SCSI driver partition needed for real Macintosh systems, but will also mount fine in these emulators.

PCE / MAME

These emulators DO emulate SCSI! You can use images without issue.

vMac Mini

There is no way to currently use a BlueSCSI image with vMac.