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Re: Free Mavericks upgrade!

From Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.system
Subject Re: Free Mavericks upgrade!
Date 2013-10-27 09:50 +1300
Organization Aioe.org NNTP Server
Message-ID <271020130950226984%YourName@YourISP.com> (permalink)
References (11 earlier) <526af1ae$0$1899$cc2e38e6@news.uslec.net> <chrispam1-786DE2.18362425102013@newsfeed.aioe.org> <1lbcxn7.d4beb15q31maN%jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz> <slrnl6njiq.b7e.g.kreme@mbp55.local> <1lbe5ty.1fu3sva19su04qN%jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz>

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In article <1lbe5ty.1fu3sva19su04qN%jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz>, Jamie
Kahn Genet <jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz> wrote:

> Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
> 
> > In message <1lbcxn7.d4beb15q31maN%jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz> 
> >   Jamie Kahn Genet <jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz> wrote:
> > > Chris Schram <chrispam1@me.com> wrote:
> > 
> > >> In article <526af1ae$0$1899$cc2e38e6@news.uslec.net>,
> > >>  M-M <nospam.m-m@ny.more> wrote:
> > >> 
> > >> > Dammit, I'm trying to get used to another newsreader and I don't like
> > >> > any of them except MT-NW. Of course I've been using it for almost 20
> > >> > years so it's a hard habit to break. But I have also never not adopted
> > >> > a MacOS upgrade.
> > >> 
> > >> I guess I can consider myself very lucky. I run my weather station on a
> > >> G4 Mac mini, and I Screen Share over there to run MT-NewsWatcher. That
> > >> kind of connection is plenty fast enough for Usenet.
> > >> 
> > >> I've been doing it that way since NT-NewsWatcher became so problematic
> > >> under Mountain Lion.
> > 
> > > That's a great solution, and so easily done, if a bit of an energy
> > > waster :-)
> > 
> > > You could also run older versions of OS X in virtualisation - VirtualBox
> > > apparently is the go-to virtualisation for this. Note I've never tried
> > > to virtualise unsupported versions of OS X personally. But I'm told it's
> > > not too difficult with VirtualBox.
> > 
> > Does it do System 7 so I can play Lode Runner? Or 7.x something so I
> > can play Prince of Persia II?
> 
> No, VirtualBox, VMWare Fusion, and Parallels all virtualise x86
> environments.
> 
> While the poorly supported Mini vMac is fairly decent (emulates a Mac
> Plus with 9" B&W screen, that will run System 6 well IME), other 68k and
> PPC Mac emulation is generally crap and has been for over a decade, with
> appallingly little progress made.

I haven't tried it, but SheepShaver looked promising at one stage and
could emulate PowerPC Macs.




> If you want to play old games I suggest finding the titles for other
> platforms and running them in emulation. Emulated DOS, Apple II, C64,
> Amiga, Atari 800, NES, SNES and many, many other platforms are all light
> years ahead of Mac 68k and PPC emulation.
> 
> I'm a couple hundred old DOS games running great in DOSBox here. DOSBox
> is truly wonderful software, and with a loader like Boxer
> <http://boxerapp.com/> (contains it's own copy of DOSBox, so you'll only
> need Boxer) it's almost entirely a GUI experience :-)
> 
> Though I've a bunch of old systems and consoles emulated, DOSBox takes
> care of 90% of my classic non-console gaming needs, as virtually every
> personal computer game of that era was ported to the PC at some stage.
> 
> Still, nothing beats running the original Apple II Lode Runner, eh?
> Virtual ][ is currently top of the heap in Mac Apple II emulators.
> Though I still like Catakig a lot (cause I used it throughout my classic
> Mac years).

Yep, Lode Runner, the proper Castle Wolfenstein, etc. The good ol' days
when games were varied and actually playable ... unlike today's pile of
almost solely third-person shooter rubbish using 3D graphics (which
make me motion-sick after only a few minutes).  :-(

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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

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