Mac classic game emulators

[caveman]

I'm looking for some game emulators for the Mac. So far the only ones that I've found and can use are Stella (2600), Jum52 (5200), and MacMess (7800) to varying success. I'm looking for a Vectrex emulator and some ROMs. Any suggestions? [email protected]

[Room 34]

The best place to find Mac emulation software is here:

 

http://www.emulation.net

 

BTW, I have never been able to get MacMESS to work... But I like Stella and Jum52 and, of course, MacMAME!

[Raijin Z]

I used iNes and Graybox on my iMac (8.5.1) before I GOT A REAL COMPUTER WORKING, and they were both pretty good. No qualms with the emulation. Accurate and perfect speed.

[Defiance131]

Give this site a try. Richard Bannister is the man. And Audio Overload is pretty nifty too. Oh, and he loves roller coasters too!

[Room 34]

...I GOT A REAL COMPUTER WORKING...

[icbrkr]

I used iNes and Graybox on my iMac (8.5.1) before I GOT A REAL COMPUTER WORKING, and they were both pretty good. No qualms with the emulation. Accurate and perfect speed.

 

 

Hmm... if you don't want this computer, send it this way and I'll install OS X Server on it. I need a fileserver

[Room 34]

 

I just installed OS X Server on my iBook yesterday, even though Apple doesn't officially support that configuration.

 

Seems to work fine, although it is looking like there's a conflict between OS X Server and Photoshop... Photoshop keeps crashing on startup! But hopefully I'll get it to work. I want to use OS X Server on the iBook so I can develop and test web apps, but for that I definitely need Photoshop too!

 

(I know Apache, PHP, MySQL, whathaveyou all runs on the regular OS X but I wanted some of Server's admin tools to make things a little smoother.)

[Raijin Z]

Umm, yeah. 300Mhz Imac with 32 MB ram, and some piece of shit ATI display. The motherboard replacement required to run OSX -AT ALL- will run you about $400. You don't want it.

[chrisbid]

why would you need a new motherboard to install OSX? i have Jaguar running on my 300MHz ibook, and it runs great. just install more ram, and itll be fine

[Raijin Z]

I looked it up. Even with the best motherboard that would fit in that POS, OSX still runs slow. You can run Windows 98 on a 30Mhz 486, but do you WANT to?

 

Edit: WTF is ISX? Fixed...

[liquid_sky]

if you knew all the hell that single mac has put this guy through, you wouldnt want it either. I think it has an ancient zulu curse on it or something

[Room 34]

"Replace the motherboard" is not a phrase heard often in the Mac world.

 

Are you sure you're not just talking about a processor upgrade?

 

I agree with your point though... despite what Apple may say, that iMac was not built to run OS X.

 

My wife has a second-generation "graphite" colored iBook with a 466 MHz G3 in it, and 192 MB of RAM, and I wouldn't even THINK of installing OS X on it. (OK, I did think of it... but fortunately I thought better before I got started. The thing would definitely need more RAM, at the very least.)

 

I do have OS X Server running on my 500 MHz G3 iBook with 384 MB of RAM and it may be a tad sluggish, but it's certainly usable. And while it may be slower than my Windows 2000 PC at work, that beast has a slew of frustrations all its own... and most of those involve kludgy interface design, not hardware limitations!

 

My greatest current frustration: The "X" button in the upper right corner of each window, which closes the application. Using Visual InterDev (the suckiest suck that ever sucked), it becomes particularly frustrating, because the close button for the DOCUMENT is directly under the close button for the APPLICATION and frequently in my haste I will click the APPLICATION button instead of the DOCUMENT button and shut the whole damn app down!

 

"Wait," you may be saying to me in your head, "why don't you just press Ctrl-W instead of clicking the stupid button?"

 

Well I WOULD do that, except in Visual InterDev, Ctrl-W doesn't close the current window!

[Raijin Z]

"Replace the motherboard" is not a phrase heard often in the Mac world.[/i]

 

yeah, "Throw it away and buy the new color" is, though.

[Room 34]

"Replace the motherboard" is not a phrase heard often in the Mac world.[/i]

 

yeah, "Throw it away and buy the new color" is, though.

 

 

Actually, it's more like "Sell it on eBay for more than you paid for it and use the funds to buy the latest incarnation, which will become obsolete somewhere between you clicking the 'Buy' button and Airborne Express arriving at your door."

[chrisbid]

as ive said, ive got Jaguar running on a first generation 300MHz ibook. I didnt do a full install since it only has a 3GB hard drive, but unlike 10.1, Jag runs like a dream on that machine (i also recommend not bothering with OS9)

 

i also have a 233MHz bondi blue iMac, and while i dont use that machine much, jag seems to run just fine on that machine as well (256MB of RAM), as stated before, memory is the biggest drawback of OSX, but with memory prices where they are, there is little excuse not to get more if you plan on giving the machine heavy use.

[icbrkr]

 

I just installed OS X Server on my iBook yesterday, even though Apple doesn't officially support that configuration.

 

Seems to work fine, although it is looking like there's a conflict between OS X Server and Photoshop... Photoshop keeps crashing on startup! But hopefully I'll get it to work.  I want to use OS X Server on the iBook so I can develop and test web apps, but for that I definitely need Photoshop too!

 

(I know Apache, PHP, MySQL, whathaveyou all runs on the regular OS X but I wanted some of Server's admin tools to make things a little smoother.)

 

Heh.. I'm not going to even *try* to install OSX Server on my iBook. I've got an older "Blueberry" one, 300Mhz (it's slow, but it was *free* .. and it runs OS X just fine). Maybe when I get a new PPC970, I'll use this G4 for a server

 

Brian