Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > comp.sys.mac.system > #50853

Re: Free Mavericks upgrade!

From Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.system
Subject Re: Free Mavericks upgrade!
Date 2013-10-27 14:46 +1300
Organization Aioe.org NNTP Server
Message-ID <271020131446222955%YourName@YourISP.com> (permalink)
References (14 earlier) <slrnl6njiq.b7e.g.kreme@mbp55.local> <1lbe5ty.1fu3sva19su04qN%jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz> <271020130950226984%YourName@YourISP.com> <l4hfbo$a9$1@dont-email.me> <1lbei60.1be6ze41rsd3dfN%jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz>

Show all headers | View raw

In article <1lbei60.1be6ze41rsd3dfN%jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz>, Jamie
Kahn Genet <jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz> wrote:
> Ted Lee <tmplee@mr.net> wrote:
> > On 10/26/13, 3:50 PM, Your Name wrote:
> > > 
> > > I haven't tried it, but SheepShaver looked promising at one stage and
> > > could emulate PowerPC Macs.
> > 
> > I haven't used it much, but it works fine.  Supports up to OS 9.0.4, I
> > believe.    Look up "emaculation forum", although the WordPerfectMac 
> > group is also fairly active with supporting plug-and-play packages of
> > SheepShaver aimed at continuing to keep WordPerfect a going program, but
> > once you have SheepShaver configured and running you can of course run
> > almost any OS 9 (or older) PPC apps.
> 
> SheepShaver ran well enough for WordPerfect IME. But it fell apart
> trying to run games like Ambrosia's old titles, e.g. Handsome Harry and
> Escape Velocity. I'm told some people got games working well enough, but
> I never could. All in all it was a hugely disappointing experience for
> me. One I've repeated every few years (when the desire to run old Mac
> only games becomes too strong to withstand) with only failure as the
> result.

Esacpe Velocity Nova is a universal binary for Mac OS X (up to at least
10.3.9), but that doesn't necessarily mean it will still work under the
newest versions of the OS of course.

I don't know what versions of the Mac and Mac OS X it runs on, but
there's also the clone of the old Elite game called "Oolite"
<http://www.oolite.org/>

Plus there's Elite 4 campaign running on KickStarter on by the original
Elite programmer David Braben
<http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1461411552/elite-dangerous/posts>

Back to comp.sys.mac.system | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

Free Mavericks upgrade! M-M <nospam.m-m@ny.more> - 2013-10-24 19:57 -0400
  Re: Free Mavericks upgrade! Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2013-10-24 17:23 -0700
    Re: Free Mavericks upgrade! M-M <nospam.m-m@ny.more> - 2013-10-24 21:27 -0400
      Re: Free Mavericks upgrade! nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-10-24 21:30 -0400
        Re: Free Mavericks upgrade! M-M <nospam.m-m@ny.more> - 2013-10-24 21:32 -0400
      Re: Free Mavericks upgrade! Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2013-10-24 18:31 -0700
        Re: Free Mavericks upgrade! M-M <nospam.m-m@ny.more> - 2013-10-24 22:42 -0400
          Re: Free Mavericks upgrade! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2013-10-25 19:48 +1300
            Re: Free Mavericks upgrade! Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2013-10-25 07:52 -0700
              Re: Free Mavericks upgrade! Lloyd  E Parsons <lloydp21@live.com> - 2013-10-25 09:56 -0500
                Re: Free Mavericks upgrade! Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2013-10-25 09:53 -0700
                Re: Free Mavericks upgrade! Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-10-25 16:55 -0400
                Re: Free Mavericks upgrade! Lloyd  E Parsons <lloydp21@live.com> - 2013-10-25 16:13 -0500
                Re: Free Mavericks upgrade! Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-10-25 17:56 -0400
                Re: Free Mavericks upgrade! M-M <nospam.m-m@ny.more> - 2013-10-25 18:34 -0400
                Re: Free Mavericks upgrade! Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-10-25 19:14 -0400
                Re: Free Mavericks upgrade! jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2013-10-26 13:16 +1300
                Re: Free Mavericks upgrade! jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2013-10-26 13:16 +1300
                Re: Free Mavericks upgrade! Chris Schram <chrispam1@me.com> - 2013-10-25 18:36 -0700
                Re: Free Mavericks upgrade! jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2013-10-26 17:03 +1300
                Re: Free Mavericks upgrade! Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-10-26 14:14 +0000
                Re: Free Mavericks upgrade! jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2013-10-27 09:13 +1300
                Re: Free Mavericks upgrade! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2013-10-27 09:50 +1300
                Re: Free Mavericks upgrade! Ted Lee <tmplee@mr.net> - 2013-10-26 17:22 -0500
                Re: Free Mavericks upgrade! jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2013-10-27 13:55 +1300
                Re: Free Mavericks upgrade! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2013-10-27 14:46 +1300
                Re: Free Mavericks upgrade! Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-10-26 21:21 +0000
                Re: Free Mavericks upgrade! jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2013-10-27 13:55 +1300
                Re: Free Mavericks upgrade! Leonard Blaisdell <leoblaisdell@sbcglobal.net> - 2013-10-25 23:35 -0700
                Re: Free Mavericks upgrade! jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2013-10-26 13:16 +1300
            Re: Free Mavericks upgrade! doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The Doctor) - 2013-10-25 15:35 +0000
  Re: Free Mavericks upgrade! jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2013-10-25 13:26 +1300

csiph-web