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| From | ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) |
|---|---|
| Subject | Re: 80s' Macs Emulators To Play Old 80s Mac Games |
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.mac.games.misc, comp.sys.mac.vintage, comp.sys.mac.games.action |
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| Date | 2018-01-13 21:51 -0600 |
Cross-posted to 3 groups.
In comp.sys.mac.games.action Your Name <YourName@yourisp.com> wrote:
> On 2018-01-13 22:09:18 +0000, Ant said:
> > Thanks guys. So far, I am currently trying Mini vMac in my old, updated
> > 64-bit W7 HPE SP1 desktop PC. I got the old Mac ROMs from
> > https://www.macintoshrepository.org/7038-all-macintosh-roms-68k-ppc- web
> > page. I extracted its 128K's 1986-03 - 4D1F8172 - MacPlus v3.ROM file
> > and renamed it to vMac.ROM. I ran Mini vMac.exe and it booted up. I
> > heard its beep and saw its floppy disk icon with its "?". From what I
> > read, this is OK. At least it finds an old Mac ROM.
> Yes. The flashing question mark disk icon means it can't find a disk to
> boot from.
That is what I thought.
> > I ran into a new issue according from
> > https://www.emaculation.com/doku.php/mini_vmac_setup and
> > http://www.gryphel.com/c/minivmac/start.html web pages' instructions. I
> > downloaded and installed the decade old
> > http://www.emaculation.com/minivmac/StuffItStandard9.zip successfully.
> > However, running its installed program crashed due to Visual C++ runtime
> > error as shown in my uploaded
> > https://image.prntscr.com/image/1F4eXCK0RwCk6aPOmWNyMw.png screen
> > shot/capture. I can't use the newer StuffIt Expander for Windows version
> > (http://my.smithmicro.com/stuffit-expander-windows.html) since it
> > doesn't support *.sea.bin files
> > (http://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Software_Updates/English-North_American/Macintosh/System/Older_System/System_6.0.x/SSW_6.0.8-1.4MB_Disk1of2.sea.bin
> >
> > and
> > http://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Software_Updates/English-North_American/Macintosh/System/Older_System/System_6.0.x/SSW_6.0.8-1.4MB_Disk2of2.sea.bin).
> >
> > Argh. :(
> >
> > Any ideas? Thank you in advance. :)
> NEVER EVER unarchive Mac application files on a Windoze PC, you'll ruin
> them because Windoze doesn't understand the separate data fork and
> resource fork used by Mac applications. That includes system installers
> and ".sea" self-extracting archives.
OK.
> Get the second download from the System 6 page at MacintoshGarden.org
> <http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/system-6-collection>
> It's a zip archive containing an System 6 boot disk - unzip that and
> use it with Mini vMac.
It worked.
> Or, RedundantRobot.com has a System 7 hard drive image (30MB) for
> SheepShaver, but it should work with Mini vMac as well.
> <http://www.redundantrobot.com/sheepshaver_files/disk_images/MacStartupOS7.img>
I wasn't not sure if this very old game ran in classic Mac OS 7. V6 worked nicely (fast
haha). I also tried v7, but it kept giving me "?". I guess its ROM doesn't support it, but
whatever.
HOWEVER, I just found out that I could boot Gemstone Warrior.dsk without System 6. Huh? I
thought classic Mac needed an OS to boot the game. I guess not! I didn't use a lot of very
old classic Mac back then. I did use a lot of Apple 2s though.
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80s' Macs Emulators ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2018-01-12 19:10 -0600
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Re: 80s' Macs Emulators To Play Old 80s Mac Games ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2018-01-13 16:09 -0600
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Re: 80s' Macs Emulators To Play Old 80s Mac Games ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2018-01-13 21:51 -0600
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