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Emulators

Posted by: markyb86 on 2013-01-02 14:46:56 System 7 was around for quite some time now. Were there any video game emulators that ran on it? Mainly looking for the original Game Boy. I don't know how hard it would be for a 68000 to emulate a Z80, but they both ran at 8mhz IIRC. an SE-30 would be plenty I would think. I first played an emulated Game Boy with a 66mhz 386, in color (with good speed) and in a DOS window on top of Windows 95, so I figure there might be hope? The google doesn't want to work with me today. I have legal ROM's by the way, and only ROM's of which I still have carts. :beige:

Posted by: FlyingToaster on 2013-01-02 15:10:03 I used GBmac years ago on my Duo 280c. It ran a little slow depending on the game but it worked. http://www.zophar.net/macintosh/gb.html

Posted by: markyb86 on 2013-01-02 16:05:04 Thanks!

Posted by: FlyingToaster on 2013-01-02 18:01:54 I just tried this on my Powerbook 165 and it actually works! I thought it required a 68040. I'm playing super mario land (1/3 the normal speed 😀 )

Posted by: markyb86 on 2013-01-02 20:21:05 Poop. I hit a wall unfortunately, hehe. :-/ This will work on the G3 however. Thanks again!

Posted by: ClassicHasClass on 2013-01-02 22:20:43 I'm sure my Q800 will run that splendidly. There are a few Commodore emulators around that will work fine on 68Ks. They're not as good as VICE or (my personal preference) Power64 but they'll run a lot. Somewhat related: There's a Game Boy emulator for JavaScript. TenFourFox on the G5 can, incredibly, run it at nearly full speed.

Posted by: markyb86 on 2013-01-02 22:26:51 Hmm suppose I could look around for the C64 emu and play a bit of mario bros.. 😱) Speaking of which I did manage to get that javascript GB emulator running on my G4 for the poke'mon trading card game. It actually wasn't too bad of speed.

Posted by: FlyingToaster on 2013-01-03 04:08:23 I'm guessing this will run on a SE/30, I'll try it later. If only it was faster.. edit: some more emulators but for OS X, http://www.bannister.org/software/index.htm

Posted by: ClassicHasClass on 2013-01-03 08:16:25 Here's one to play with: gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/archive/userserve-ucsd-edu/Utilities/Emulators/Commodore%2064%20Emulator%20For%20Mac

Posted by: jamie marchant on 2013-01-21 13:54:12 What type of computer do you need to run a dos emulator?(like say Doesbox), I imagine a vintage Mac does not have the hoursepower.

Posted by: ClassicHasClass on 2013-01-21 18:39:07 SoftWindows sort of worked, but not well for DOS games. Even on this quad G5, DOSBox does need a lot of resources, though I can usually run 286 and 386 level software without too much difficulty. However, the best DOS games emulator I ever used was VirtualPC 3.0. It won't run on OS X, but it runs like a bat out of hell on OS 9, and it is much better at DOS games than VPC 4+. That won't get you far on an '040 tho.

Posted by: jongleur on 2013-01-21 19:44:43 Probably not old enough for your needs - but I used to run FWB's RealPC on my iBook under OS9

Posted by: jamie marchant on 2013-01-22 08:58:52 Interesting but I think Dos games would be best played on a more powerful computer(with emulation like Dos-box) or on my old Windows 98 PIII.

Posted by: Gorgonops on 2013-01-22 11:52:09 On the subject of emulators that would actually run on 68k machines: There's a pretty good TRS-80 Model I emulator: http://yves.lempereur.name/trs80.html I've never used it on real hardware but I did play with it under BasiliskII on a setup which was only about as fast as, I dunno, an LCIII and it ran okay. Note of course that a Model I is a *2 Mhz* Z-80 with much simpler hardware than a Gameboy. So it's no surprise that it's a lower bar to clear when it comes to emulation.

Posted by: mcdermd on 2013-01-22 15:28:09 Bernie ][ The Rescue the a decent IIgs emulator way back when.

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