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Other prepackaged versions of Basilisk II that I am aware of:
Really old versions for legacy systems:
To download the current version of the repository via Git:
$ git clone https://github.com/cebix/macemu.git
After downloading and setting up the repository you can, for example, try to compile the Unix version of Basilisk II:
$ cd macemu/BasiliskII/src/Unix $ ./autogen.sh $ make