PowerPC Mac JzInTV help

[doctorclu]

Good morning, going old school here. I have been able to get JZInTV to work on my Intel Mac, currently trying to get emulator to run on my PowerPC Mac at work.

 

So downloaded this version...

http://spatula-city.org/~im14u2c/intv/dl/

 

I believe I download SD 1.2.5 to run this. Put that in the Lubrary/Framework folder.

 

JzInTV is in the applications folder.

 

I downloaded two version of exec.bin and grom.bin that were specically in .int and .bin forms.

 

Getting this error...

errno value: No such file or directory
ERROR: Could not read EXEC image 'exec.bin'
clus-powerbook-g4-12:~ Clu$

 

directory path...

Clu$ /Applications/jzintv/bin/jzintv

 

In the JZinTV folder there are folders "bin", "Doc", and I created one for "rom". I have seeded exec.bin and grom.bin in all the folders but the "doc" folder.

 

But it seems to be looking for a directory.

 

I have put the system files in ... huh (pastes the binaries in my personal directory rather than the shared or system directory.. works...)

 

Ok, problem solved. That was weird though.

[+Lathe26]

(I'm going off topic here)

 

PowerPC Macs take me back... I remember when they 1st came out in the mid-1990s and Apple gave a presentation at our university. The 1st generation PowerPCs used NuBus card slots instead of the later PCF card slots. I still remember their snide dig at the end about how the competing Intel CPU's only advantage is that it has "an optional grill attachment" (an obvious reference to how hot Intel x86s run).

[doctorclu]

LOL! That is ironic. And they never could get the G5 to run cool enough for a laptop.

[+intvsteve]

You can specify the files to use for EXEC and GROM from the command line -- but I think if they are EXEC.BIN and GROM.BIN, and in the same directory as the actual jzintv executable, it should just work. Then again, not sure if / how that may have changed over the years.

[doctorclu]

Intel Mac version had the system roms in the binary folder. This was not the case with the PowerPC version which mind you is over ten years old at this point.

 

All and all it is amazing what they were able to do with the G3/G4 line of Macs and I still use two of them, sometimes three, on a regular basis.

 

(TenFourFox keeps the browser on the PowerPC Macs current-ish.)