Q-emuLator is a software-only emulator of the QL, running as an application in the Mac OS environment.
Q-emuLator has an interpreter of the 68008's instructions, and emulates the basic QL's hardware, redirecting input and output to the Mac's video, keyboard, mouse, disks, sound hardware and serial ports. A list of Q-emuLator's current features is available.

July 2003
The Mac version of Q-emuLator has not been updated for some time now (I don't have a Mac anymore), so I've decided to make the last version for 68K Macs available for free for personal, non-commercial use only. Q-emuLator for Mac is NOT public domain, I retain the copyright and all rights, and only grant free personal and non-commercial use of version 3.0.4 for Mac OS.
This version is compiled for 68K-based Macs, but it should also run on all PowerPC-based Macs.
There is a version of Q-emuLator compiled for PowerPC, but it's not currently available because it has some troubles running on recent Macs.

March 2005
I've been able to install the Mac compiler on a Macintosh emulator running on Windows and to modify Q-emuLator (the 68K version) to fix a bug in the emulation of microdrive copy-protection (a timing issue was preventing it from working on today's fast Macs) and to change the native file driver to allow it to access files created by the Windows version of Q-emuLator.

Download Q-emuLator 3.0.4 for Mac OS! (442KB)

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