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I thought these were all DOS-based (Intel CPU) games... How are you running these on a PowerPC/G3?
by justquestions 11y ago
I thought these were all DOS-based (Intel CPU) games...
How are you running these on a PowerPC/G3?
- dirktheman 11y agoThey are mostly pre-intel based games, as Apple switched to Intel in 2002. They are free for download through sites like macintoshgarden.org. Otherwise I use an emulator (Basilisk/SheepShaver) on my own PC/Mac.
- justquestions 11y agoThank you. I remember playing some of these on a 486DX-33MHz in the early 90s. I wasn't aware there was a Motorola CPU based version. As others have said, there goes my weekend. Time to dig out my old G4 laptop, or the PowerBook 520c I seem to have kept for some reason... Did I say thank you?
- lobster_johnson 11y agoNitpick: The Intel switch was in 2006.
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- thristian 11y agoI don't know how the parent is actually doing it, but many of these classic adventure games date back to a time when there were multiple competing architectures; the games were often written in some kind of bytecode, and getting them running on modern hardware just needs a new implementation of the VM, like ScummVM.
- dirktheman 11y agoI would hardly call my '99 iBook G3 300mhz "modern"...
- vetinari 11y agoScummvm - http://scummvm.org http://scummvm.org Clamshell iBooks are capable of running OSX. Not spectacularly well (they are 366 or 466 MHz machines with limeted RAM), but still.
- dirktheman 11y agoWhile I maxed out on the RAM (a whopping 512MB), as it's one of the first clamshells it's limited by a 300Mhz processor. So no OSX for me. I don't mind, it's on 9.2 right now, which is about the most stable as they come. And with my homemade ssd (CF card with IDE adapter) it's blazing fast!
- vetinari 11y agoI remember running 10.1 and 10.2 on the 466 Mhz/320 MB RAM clamshell. Not very fast, but enough for ScummVM. I didn't know that OSX does not run on the original iBook.
- zephyrfalcon 11y agoI think the highest OS X version you can install on a clamshell is 10.4. I have it on one of mine (with memory maxed out to 576 Mb). As you say, it's not real fast, but ScummVM works, and so do C64 and GBA emulators.
- anthk 11y agoScummvm under Linux Mint PPC should run faster than OSX.
- lambda 11y agoMost of these LucasArts graphical adventure games were written using a game engine known as SCUMM (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCUMM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCUMM) that was able to target different platforms, which was ported to the Mac and so ran on 68k and later PowerPC Macs. There is now an emulator that can play SCUMM games on almost any platform known as ScummVM (http://scummvm.org/ http://scummvm.org/).