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Emulators
System 7 was around for quite some time now.
Were there any video game emulators that ran on it? Mainly looking for the original Game Boy. I don't know how hard it would be for a 68000 to emulate a Z80, but they both ran at 8mhz IIRC.
an SE-30 would be plenty I would think.
I first played an emulated Game Boy with a 66mhz 386, in color (with good speed) and in a DOS window on top of Windows 95, so I figure there might be hope? The google doesn't want to work with me today.
I have legal ROM's by the way, and only ROM's of which I still have carts.
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Were there any video game emulators that ran on it? Mainly looking for the original Game Boy. I don't know how hard it would be for a 68000 to emulate a Z80, but they both ran at 8mhz IIRC.
an SE-30 would be plenty I would think.
I first played an emulated Game Boy with a 66mhz 386, in color (with good speed) and in a DOS window on top of Windows 95, so I figure there might be hope? The google doesn't want to work with me today.
I have legal ROM's by the way, and only ROM's of which I still have carts.
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I used GBmac years ago on my Duo 280c. It ran a little slow depending on the game but it worked.
http://www.zophar.net/macintosh/gb.html
http://www.zophar.net/macintosh/gb.html
Thanks!
I just tried this on my Powerbook 165 and it actually works! I thought it required a 68040. I'm playing super mario land (1/3 the normal speed 
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Poop. I hit a wall unfortunately, hehe. :-/
This will work on the G3 however.
Thanks again!
This will work on the G3 however.
Thanks again!
I'm sure my Q800 will run that splendidly.
There are a few Commodore emulators around that will work fine on 68Ks. They're not as good as VICE or (my personal preference) Power64 but they'll run a lot.
Somewhat related: There's a Game Boy emulator for JavaScript. TenFourFox on the G5 can, incredibly, run it at nearly full speed.
There are a few Commodore emulators around that will work fine on 68Ks. They're not as good as VICE or (my personal preference) Power64 but they'll run a lot.
Somewhat related: There's a Game Boy emulator for JavaScript. TenFourFox on the G5 can, incredibly, run it at nearly full speed.
Hmm suppose I could look around for the C64 emu and play a bit of mario bros.. 
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Speaking of which I did manage to get that javascript GB emulator running on my G4 for the poke'mon trading card game. It actually wasn't too bad of speed.
) Speaking of which I did manage to get that javascript GB emulator running on my G4 for the poke'mon trading card game. It actually wasn't too bad of speed.
I'm guessing this will run on a SE/30, I'll try it later. If only it was faster..
edit: some more emulators but for OS X, http://www.bannister.org/software/index.htm
edit: some more emulators but for OS X, http://www.bannister.org/software/index.htm
Here's one to play with: gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/archive/userserve-ucsd-edu/Utilities/Emulators/Commodore%2064%20Emulator%20For%20Mac
What type of computer do you need to run a dos emulator?(like say Doesbox), I imagine a vintage Mac does not have the hoursepower.
SoftWindows sort of worked, but not well for DOS games. Even on this quad G5, DOSBox does need a lot of resources, though I can usually run 286 and 386 level software without too much difficulty.
However, the best DOS games emulator I ever used was VirtualPC 3.0. It won't run on OS X, but it runs like a bat out of hell on OS 9, and it is much better at DOS games than VPC 4+.
That won't get you far on an '040 tho.
However, the best DOS games emulator I ever used was VirtualPC 3.0. It won't run on OS X, but it runs like a bat out of hell on OS 9, and it is much better at DOS games than VPC 4+.
That won't get you far on an '040 tho.
Probably not old enough for your needs - but I used to run FWB's RealPC on my iBook under OS9
Interesting but I think Dos games would be best played on a more powerful computer(with emulation like Dos-box) or on my old Windows 98 PIII.
On the subject of emulators that would actually run on 68k machines: There's a pretty good TRS-80 Model I emulator:
http://yves.lempereur.name/trs80.html
I've never used it on real hardware but I did play with it under BasiliskII on a setup which was only about as fast as, I dunno, an LCIII and it ran okay.
Note of course that a Model I is a *2 Mhz* Z-80 with much simpler hardware than a Gameboy. So it's no surprise that it's a lower bar to clear when it comes to emulation.
http://yves.lempereur.name/trs80.html
I've never used it on real hardware but I did play with it under BasiliskII on a setup which was only about as fast as, I dunno, an LCIII and it ran okay.
Note of course that a Model I is a *2 Mhz* Z-80 with much simpler hardware than a Gameboy. So it's no surprise that it's a lower bar to clear when it comes to emulation.
Bernie ][ The Rescue the a decent IIgs emulator way back when.