Retro-gaming on Mactel/OS 10.4 (was Re: Semi-OT: Classic Mac support gone from Leopard (OS X 10.5)) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

6 Oct 2007

On 10/6/07, Zane H. Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
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  At 9:45 AM +0200 10/6/07, Ethan Dicks wrote:
 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). 
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.

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  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.