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Emulators

68kMLA 68k 15 posts Jan 2, 2013 to Jan 22, 2013

#1 Wed, 2 Jan 2013 - 22:46 68kMLA

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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#2 Wed, 2 Jan 2013 - 23:10 68kMLA

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

#3 Thu, 3 Jan 2013 - 00:05 68kMLA

Thanks!

#4 Thu, 3 Jan 2013 - 02:01 68kMLA

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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#5 Thu, 3 Jan 2013 - 04:21 68kMLA

Poop. I hit a wall unfortunately, hehe. :-/

This will work on the G3 however.

Thanks again!

#6 Thu, 3 Jan 2013 - 06:20 68kMLA

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.

#7 Thu, 3 Jan 2013 - 06:26 68kMLA

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.

#8 Thu, 3 Jan 2013 - 12:08 68kMLA

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

#9 Thu, 3 Jan 2013 - 16:16 68kMLA

Here's one to play with: gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/archive/userserve-ucsd-edu/Utilities/Emulators/Commodore%2064%20Emulator%20For%20Mac

#10 Mon, 21 Jan 2013 - 21:54 68kMLA

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.

#11 Tue, 22 Jan 2013 - 02:39 68kMLA

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.

#12 Tue, 22 Jan 2013 - 03:44 68kMLA

Probably not old enough for your needs - but I used to run FWB's RealPC on my iBook under OS9

#13 Tue, 22 Jan 2013 - 16:58 68kMLA

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.

#14 Tue, 22 Jan 2013 - 19:52 68kMLA

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.

#15 Tue, 22 Jan 2013 - 23:28 68kMLA

Bernie ][ The Rescue the a decent IIgs emulator way back when.