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Off Topic => General Interest => Topic started by: Betaray on November 08, 2005, 09:30:52 PM

Title: Oids Ever Heard Of It?
Post by: Betaray on November 08, 2005, 09:30:52 PM

hay, I just found a game that I used to play when I was in kindergarden, think of Astroids where instead of fighting astroids you have to rescue stick figures from the surface of a planet, and along the way there are fixed cannons, missles, gravity wells, fighters, bases, even a mothership trying to destroy you, and you can make your own maps

only problem is, its for Mac, so I cant play it

heres the download
http://www.download.com/OIDS/3000-2276_4-10221054.html (http://www.download.com/OIDS/3000-2276_4-10221054.html)

anyway that it would be possible to play this on a PC?

Title: Oids Ever Heard Of It?
Post by: spirit1flyer on November 08, 2005, 09:52:58 PM

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anyway that it would be possible to play this on a PC?

you could use a emulator for mac.  Most of them that I have tried suck but do get the game working

Title: Oids Ever Heard Of It?
Post by: leeor_net on November 09, 2005, 07:52:31 PM

For the good emulators to work you need some sort of emulation hardware that has an Apple BIOS ROM chip on it to work.

Unfortunatly, emulating an entire OS is not an easy thing to do especially for modern OS's.

So the answer is generally a no.

Title: Oids Ever Heard Of It?
Post by: Betaray on November 09, 2005, 07:58:04 PM

I dont need or want the entire OS, I just want to be able to play that one game

like I have a nintendo NES emulater, that dosnt require any NES hardware, but it can play the games, I just want somthing like that

Title: Oids Ever Heard Of It?
Post by: dm-horus on December 20, 2005, 06:17:12 AM

does anyone remember that old game that came in boxes of chex? it was a slightly modded doom 95 that felt like what a commander keen fps would be like :P

Title: Oids Ever Heard Of It?
Post by: HaXtOr on December 20, 2005, 11:51:15 AM

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For the good emulators to work you need some sort of emulation hardware that has an Apple BIOS ROM chip on it to work.

Unfortunatly, emulating an entire OS is not an easy thing to do especially for modern OS's.

So the answer is generally a no.

ummm what are you talking about?
This is a old program for a old operating system that has some awsome emulators. some of the emulators will even work on systems that are lower then a pII 233
 

Title: Oids Ever Heard Of It?
Post by: zigzagjoe on December 20, 2005, 12:31:15 PM

uh, what are ya'll thinking?

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For the good emulators to work you need some sort of emulation hardware that has an Apple BIOS ROM chip on it to work.

Unfortunatly, emulating an entire OS is not an easy thing to do especially for modern OS's.

So the answer is generally a no.

pshh. i have a old pIII 933mhz that can emulate classic mac os at around 10+x of the real thing. youl'd be suprised by the capibilty of modern emulators. and a apple bios rom chip? hell no. a rom image is more like it. emulation hw? not needed.

h/o betaray, ill set up a package for you.

Title: Oids Ever Heard Of It?
Post by: Betaray on December 20, 2005, 02:10:59 PM

cool thankx man

Title: Oids Ever Heard Of It?
Post by: BlackBox on December 20, 2005, 02:22:36 PM

Yeah, a program like BasiliskII should be perfectly capable of running it.

I've installed System 7 on that emulator and it works great.

Title: Oids Ever Heard Of It?
Post by: Leviathan on December 24, 2005, 06:39:21 AM

anyone evea play Hyperiod ?