Flojomojo Posted July 13, 2019 Share Posted July 13, 2019 I loved this back when it was new -- 30 years ago! We would play in the university computer lab, where all the little fat beige Macs were connected to each other with AppleTalk local network cables. Emulated here, but you'll have to play against the computer, not your friends. https://archive.org/details/NetTrekTheRealVersionMacintosh 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted July 13, 2019 Share Posted July 13, 2019 Wow, it is crazy to see an old Mac being emulated in a web browser! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted July 13, 2019 Author Share Posted July 13, 2019 If you were a Mac fan back then, this might eat up your Saturday afternoon: https://jamesfriend.com.au/pce-js/system6/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted July 13, 2019 Share Posted July 13, 2019 7 minutes ago, Flojomojo said: If you were a Mac fan back then, this might eat up your Saturday afternoon: https://jamesfriend.com.au/pce-js/system6/ I never owned one of these old Macs back in the day, but we had several computer labs full of them at college. So I got to use them fairly often. A friend of mine worked at a ComputerLand (I believe) and they had Macs that I got to play with for extended durations frequently. Loved the keyboards on those things, they were fantastic! Even wrote some software professionally on them at the time, although we used Microsoft BASIC, which was not terribly great. Fun times, though! Was pretty exciting when Spectre GCR came out for the Atari ST! Especially with the larger monochrome ST monitor. With the above emulator, would be nice if you could make the actual window larger. I don't mean increase the resolution of the display, but at least pixel double it or something so it's a bit larger in size. ..Al 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted July 13, 2019 Author Share Posted July 13, 2019 Good point about the screen resolution. The in-browser collections at Archive.org are a little better in that regard. I have been known to load up Dark Castle and crank up the volume, because everybody loooooves these annoying sounds. https://archive.org/details/mac_DarkCastle_1_2 The emulator itself can be run natively of course (save your progress, write to disk!), and the developer even has a little service for compiling variants based on target hardware and resolution, which is neat. Look under Downloads here. https://www.gryphel.com/c/minivmac/ I find it kind of a PITA to set up retro-style disk images, albeit less so than messing with real diskettes and vintage hardware. Archive.org has a whole collection, as well as a mirror of The Macintosh Garden, which contains everything I ever had, saw, or wanted from those days. The monochrome art style came back recently in a semi-mainstream PC game from the creators of Papers, Please. https://obradinn.com/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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