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Shoebill is an all-new, BSD-licensed Macintosh II emulator designed
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from the ground up with the singular goal of running A/UX, first
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presented on
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<http://www.emaculation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=8288>.
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Shoebill requires a Macintosh II, IIx or IIcx ROM, e.g. from
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<https://github.com/macmade/Macintosh-ROMs>, and a disk image with
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A/UX installed.
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Shoebill is different from other Macintosh emulators in how it
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boots. Instead of booting directly into the Macintosh ROM, Shoebill
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implements a bootloader and boots directly into A/UX
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itself. Traditionally, A/UX is booted by first booting Mac OS, and
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then running SASH/launch to mount the A/UX root partition, run fsck if
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necessary, load the unix kernel, and then boot it. SASH provides the
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ability to manipulate the A/UX filesystem while actually running in
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regular Mac OS.
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Shoebill cannot boot into regular Mac OS, although that's a future
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goal. Instead, it replicates the functionality of Apple's bootloader,
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and boots directly into A/UX.
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