Emulators that run on 68k Mac

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2009, September 29 - 12:49pm

spooky

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Emulators that run on 68k Mac

Hi everyone,
I've got a slightly different emulation question that those I've found here so far.

I'm currently looking for emulators that'll run on a 68k Mac so I don't have to dig out some of my even older machines.
So far I've got a ZX Spectrum emulator that runs Chaos very nicely full screen.
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/emulators.html#mac

Ideally I'd love an Atari 2600 and a C64 emulator but all the ones I've found seem to be PPC/OSX only.

If anyone knows of any emulators at all for the above or other systems that'd run on my Duo 280c then please let me know.
Thanks.

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2009, September 29 - 4:44pm

watchsmart

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Some emulators for your 68K Macintosh:

Rainbow emulates the 8-bit Atari: http://www.ookster.plus.com/rainbow.htm

Mac64 will emulate the Commodore 64: http://www.emuwiki.com/index.php?title=History_of_Mac64

There are many emulators available, just check out Emuwiki's Macintosh section:

http://www.emuwiki.com/index.php?title=Emulation_on_Macintosh

Click through to the individual systems for more information. Most of the emulators listed are for OS X, obviously, but you will find a lot of older emulators. For example, I learned that:

Horizon emulates the BBC Micro: http://www.ookster.plus.com/img/tab_open_horizon.gif

ColeEm emulates the ColecoVision: http://www.emuwiki.com/index.php?title=History_of_ColEm

Dgen will emulate the Genesis (I think): http://www.emuwiki.com/index.php?title=History_of_DGen

Intellevision for Mac will emulate the Intellevision: http://www.emuwiki.com/index.php?title=History_of_Intellivision_for_Mac

Mini vMac will emulate older Macintosh models: http://minivmac.sourceforge.net/download.html

PCx will emulate a PC: http://www.emuwiki.com/index.php?title=History_of_PCx

2009, September 29 - 5:49pm

bertyboy

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I remember a C64 emulator for my IIci / IIsi, and I remember it was really quie good. Can't remember the name, but if Mac64 is not first rate I'll have a dig around, I will still have it on floppy / cd (all my floppies / cds are imaged and all the cd's / dvd's are indexed on a 2TB disk) so I should be able to find it quick.

2009, September 29 - 5:52pm

Attila

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I know there's Power64 still available:

http://www.infinite-loop.at/Power64/

2009, September 29 - 7:18pm

Euryale

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How about an Apple ][ Emulator for Mac 68k, PPC?
I use Applewin for Windows which is excellent:

http://applewin.berlios.de/

2009, September 30 - 10:32am

spooky

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Thanks for all the links!

Unfortunately Mach64 is very incomplete, doesn't even support joysticks so that leaves you with just text adventures - if it loads them at all, I couldn't get anything to load without it crashing.
DGen and Power64 are both PPC but my Duo is 68k so they wont work.

Not to worry, I can still play them on my PC or I can dig out my C64, I just wanted to put this Duo I was given recently to good use.

Funny really I hated macs when I used to work with them, having to support customers using printers, networked printers, RIP, colour matching and scanners and the macs we had in the office were old underpowered low memory machines running 9.2.2 and 10 with the latest, at the time, version of photoshop and quark and they took ages to do anything.

This powerbook though is quite speedy with the right software (OS 7.6.1) and has been running Heroes of Might and Magic 1 really well.

2009, September 30 - 6:20pm

Attila

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The emulators weren't very accomplished until PPCs were already popular. There is an older version of MacMAME for 68k machines; it's possible if you use that to run some not-too-demanding old games it might work out all right. I recall an emulator named Vectorama that was for Atari's vector-based arcade games, and I seem to remember it's for 68k.