Emulating Old Mac Games on... A Mac!

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I recently downloaded Amazon Trail and Oregon Trail from Mac Garden (an abandonware website), and then spent a few hours trying to figure out how to emulate them - since apparently Mac OSX no longer supports those programs. There's some sort of emulation program called BasiliskII that is supposed to help you emulate the Mac ROM necessary to run the games - but I couldn't figure out how to get it to work. Have any of you Mac users had any luck emulating this stuff?

Mordy, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 07:43 (sixteen years ago) link

i was mucking about with an emulator called KEGS for a while, it emulates an Apple IIgs

have you got a powerpc mac? you can run OS9 on it and play old stuff

DG, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 13:36 (sixteen years ago) link

or just sod it and run the pc versions in dosbox, a lot simpler

DG, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 22:24 (sixteen years ago) link

eight years pass...

We need an old mac games (pre-OS X) poll

El Tomboto, Sunday, 7 August 2016 18:25 (seven years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kXsfYje9BE

El Tomboto, Sunday, 7 August 2016 18:26 (seven years ago) link

missing:

RoboSport
RoboWar
Spectre
Escape Velocity
Dark Castle

oh my god you guys

Welcome to Pillars of Garendall, a huge (150mb+ for the full version) epic fantasy role playing game created using the Coldstone game engine. You'll need a sharp-edged blade and a heart of steel to make it through this unique action-oriented role playing game.

El Tomboto, Sunday, 7 August 2016 18:58 (seven years ago) link

Now I'm trying to find a top-down action RPG from the late 90s that I played on my 8500 in college and I'm going to lose my mind.

Meanwhile let's remember some other guys

Mission: Thunderbolt
Minotaur: The Labyrinths of Crete
Asterax

El Tomboto, Sunday, 7 August 2016 19:56 (seven years ago) link

wow, Cyberblast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTGNH_k9NUM

I played a lot of weird crap in my day

El Tomboto, Sunday, 7 August 2016 20:19 (seven years ago) link

and OIDS

http://www.insidemacgames.com/reviews/view.php?ID=246

I am dusting off a dozen other completely forgotten game memories trying to find this stupid top-down shareware RPG that I apparently dreamt up

El Tomboto, Monday, 8 August 2016 00:40 (seven years ago) link

oh thank jesus finally found it

http://macintoshgarden.org/games/prince-of-destruction

I didn't spend almost all my free time today digging that up, no not at all

El Tomboto, Monday, 8 August 2016 02:33 (seven years ago) link

two weeks pass...

I spent more time playing Minotaur than any other Bungie game

Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 24 August 2016 20:36 (seven years ago) link

Wasted at least 30 minutes a few weeks ago trying to find an iso file of a Mac shareware CD-ROM I had back in the day. It was loaded with games like Escape Velocity etc but had loads of crude weird homemade games as well.

brimstead, Wednesday, 24 August 2016 22:44 (seven years ago) link


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