+SpiceWare Posted December 23, 2013 Share Posted December 23, 2013 OS X Console Emulator 'OpenEmu 1.0' Launches - Mac Rumors Looks interesting, will check it out on this evening. Should work great on my Mac mini that's driving my HDTV, especially since I have a couple PS3 controllers paired with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ransom Posted December 23, 2013 Share Posted December 23, 2013 I'm looking forward to trying it out, too. Some day it could replace the bazillion emulators I have (and have to keep up-to-date) with just one. That would be nice. Plus, the interface is nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rex Dart Posted December 23, 2013 Share Posted December 23, 2013 Don't suppose it runs on PPC, does it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyHW Posted December 23, 2013 Share Posted December 23, 2013 Hmmmmm, this sounds interesting. I will have to look into it. What are the OS requirements? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+remowilliams Posted December 23, 2013 Share Posted December 23, 2013 Good to see some huge improvement, emulation on the Mac has generally been 31 flavors of awful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyHW Posted December 23, 2013 Share Posted December 23, 2013 (edited) 10.7. Looks like I now have a reason to upgrade from Snow Leopard (even though I didn't want to). It looks like this could be the answer to my prayers. But you have to compile it? Really? WTF? Edited December 23, 2013 by BillyHW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldenegg Posted December 24, 2013 Share Posted December 24, 2013 No, you don't have to compile it. That was only true for the pre 1.0 release. The interface is still quite buggy at the moment. It crashes fairly often when adding roms and can randomly stop downloading covers. I plan to submit multiple bug reports and hope other people do as well, as this has the potential of being a really great app. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+BBWW Posted December 24, 2013 Share Posted December 24, 2013 Cool, I saw this on MacNN this morning. Will try it out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+SpiceWare Posted December 25, 2013 Author Share Posted December 25, 2013 Got stuck working late yesterday so didn't get around to trying it out until today while mom was taking a nap (she's visiting for the holidays, dad's working in Africa). Game Gear Master System Genesis - it didn't auto-find the artwork for these games. Quick slick. Worked just fine with my PS3 controllers. Would be nice to be able to adjust the image size, to compensate with my HDTV's overscan (it's a rear-project unit from 2001), like I do in MAME. OpenEmu might already have a way to do this, I just don't have time to investigate it until after the holidays. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldenegg Posted December 25, 2013 Share Posted December 25, 2013 Overscan compensation is in your OS X display settings. It's not application specific. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+SpiceWare Posted December 25, 2013 Author Share Posted December 25, 2013 (edited) Overscan compensation is in your OS X display settings. It's not application specific. Yep, I've used it to adjust the mini so I could see the menu bar. I might be able to adjust it a little more, though I seem to recall I bumped it back due to garbage on the edges of some TV channels. Edited December 25, 2013 by SpiceWare Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Algus Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 Holy cow. Looking good. This app was featured on iMore.com and I'm finally getting around to checking it out after being buried in MMO land for awhile lol! My Mac Mini is my daily driver for now but I'd like to think that it's end of life fate will be as a set top box. The media features are just to useful. I've got the 1.0 set up now but I was rather sad to see Stella isn't incorporated yet. Have you had a chance to play with it much at all? Further thoughts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+SpiceWare Posted January 7, 2014 Author Share Posted January 7, 2014 Haven't played it much due to lack of time over the holidays. My sister and nephew were in town this past weekend, we celebrated a late Xmas and mom's birthday. One of the things we did was have a blast going to Zoo Lights. According to the Plugin Status page Atari 2600, 5200, 7800 and Jaguar emulation has already been ported. Don't have any idea as to when it'll show up in the release build. From the GitHub page I can see they used Stella for it (the Plugin Status page mentions Stella and z26). I'll probably spend some more time with it this weekend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyHW Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 Haven't played it much due to lack of time over the holidays. My sister and nephew were in town this past weekend, we celebrated a late Xmas and mom's birthday. One of the things we did was have a blast going to Zoo Lights. According to the Plugin Status page Atari 2600, 5200, 7800 and Jaguar emulation has already been ported. Don't have any idea as to when it'll show up in the release build. From the GitHub page I can see they used Stella for it (the Plugin Status page mentions Stella and z26). I'll probably spend some more time with it this weekend. 7800? This could be the answer to my prayers! I just need a new Mac... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bakasama Posted January 9, 2014 Share Posted January 9, 2014 Eh? If your stuck using Snow Leopard, you don't really need to get a new Mac. Just get a WINE wrapper program and put the Prosystem emulator in it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyHW Posted January 9, 2014 Share Posted January 9, 2014 Eh? If your stuck using Snow Leopard, you don't really need to get a new Mac. Just get a WINE wrapper program and put the Prosystem emulator in it. Or I suppose I could just code my own emulator. Good times! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bakasama Posted January 9, 2014 Share Posted January 9, 2014 Who's say anything about coding an emulator. I'm talking about using WINE to run the ProSystem emulator on a Mac. I could attach the ProSystem.app but I don't think I can upload a 400MB file here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iesposta Posted January 9, 2014 Share Posted January 9, 2014 Aw no! It says, "#define STELLA_VERSION "3.4.1"" I guess no Space Rocks unless they use greater than 3.7.2 ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+SpiceWare Posted January 9, 2014 Author Share Posted January 9, 2014 Weird. They added it 9 months ago, so it should have at least been version 3.8. I think 3.5 would be the minimum version required in order to play Space Rocks. 3.5 added the code to ignore access to MAMCR, which is updated by Space Rocks to partially disable cache in order to prevent that ARM crashing bug. Later versions of Stella fix other DPC+ problems that can probably be lived with, such as having solid and vector asteroids at the same time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Nathan Strum Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 Well, it has promise. But I've seen a lot of attempts at decent emulation front-ends for the Mac that never panned out. I'm not holding my breath. I wish them the best of luck though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldenegg Posted January 12, 2014 Share Posted January 12, 2014 Well, it has promise. But I've seen a lot of attempts at decent emulation front-ends for the Mac that never panned out. I'm not holding my breath. I wish them the best of luck though. Not much to hold your breath for. This is a functioning front-end that works well right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jetboot Jack Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 Just to add my 10c - I've been using this for quite a while, and using the experimental build ( a few bugs but already great) so playing 7800, 2600, CV etc., and it is just AWESOME. A beautiful front end, easy to manage content, add custom art work to and a joy use! As soon as Kiosk mode is in (so you can troll the UI with a joypad) it will be a perfect system for me. I only hope the team decides to add A8 support alongside 5200. sTeVE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+SpiceWare Posted March 1, 2014 Author Share Posted March 1, 2014 Aw no! It says, "#define STELLA_VERSION "3.4.1"" I guess no Space Rocks unless they use greater than 3.7.2 ? They've updated to 3.9.3 https://github.com/OpenEmu/Stella-Core I tried installing the experimental build to check it out, but it won't let me add any 2600 games. Possibly it didn't like that I downgraded from version 1.0.1 to 1.0-experimental. Don't have time at the moment to investigate the problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nerf Herder73 Posted March 2, 2014 Share Posted March 2, 2014 (edited) They've updated to 3.9.3 https://github.com/OpenEmu/Stella-Core I tried installing the experimental build to check it out, but it won't let me add any 2600 games. Possibly it didn't like that I downgraded from version 1.0.1 to 1.0-experimental. Don't have time at the moment to investigate the problem. I believe that the file extension needs to be ".a26". However, I haven't been able to get it play any 2600 games since the core was updated. EDIT: New core was buggy and has been fixed. https://github.com/OpenEmu/OpenEmu/issues/1179 Frantic20140227 is running. Edited March 2, 2014 by Nerf Herder73 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+SpiceWare Posted March 2, 2014 Author Share Posted March 2, 2014 (edited) saw that, but the buggy core was from over a week ago so I don't think that was my problem as I'd downloaded it yesterday. Turned out to be the extension, changed them to a26 and was able to add a number of games without any problem. Do you know if they expose Stella's internal configuration? I couldn't figure out how to turn on phosphor mode for Stay Frosty 2. I suspect it'll look fine on my HDTV as it's CRT based (a rear projection unit from 2001). I'll try installing experimental on the Mac mini later today as my folks will be here soon, we're heading out for brunch. Edited March 2, 2014 by SpiceWare Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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