6 Oct
2007
6 Oct
'07
1:43 a.m.
On 10/6/07, Zane H. Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
At 9:45 AM +0200 10/6/07, Ethan Dicks wrote:
Hmm... I haven't tried screwing with it too much... I tried doing a
'fink' or one of the other distro tools - it fetched the Dosbox source
just fine, but the compile stopped when it failed to locate X11.h or
something similar. I have it on the system, so it's probably a
Makefile assumption as to INCLUDEPATH or something similar. I just
haven't had time to dig into it. It's really just to play DOS games
("Master of Orion I", "X-COM", "Colonization", etc.) so
I'll probably
dig into it in the depths of Winter at Pole, when I'm bored and need a
nostalgia fix. It's entirely uncritical for "real" work.
X-11 header files on my disk - yes... I _did_
install X)... what I
would love to do, but don't seem to be able to, is to run some OS 9
PPC Mac programs.
Have you tried? I thought that "carbon" apps should run under
Rosetta. Of course your apps might not be "carbonized" (I think
those are the right terms, it's been years, and it's late). I suspect you are out of luck. Most of us with
non-Mac OS X apps are
trying to run stuff so old that they're 68k apps. I've found that
anything I am interested in that had a PPC version now has a Mac OS X
version.
As I thought... but I don't think they have released a Mac OS X
version of "Starcraft" and "Starcraft: Broodwars" - more unessential
retro-gaming. I do have genuine copies of both for Windows, so it's
probably easiest to just finish setting up Parallels and run the DOS
versions. I was just hoping to stay native where native was possible,
but not, apparently, in this case.