Old DOS games...

giaguara · September 16, 2002 1:04PM

Hm, .. just wondering...

How to make the old legendary DOS games (arkanoid, pacman etc) work in os x ..??

Or where to find on-line-versions of them in flash or anything... anything like all those legendary stuff... that run on os x??

Then ... which of those are or were your fav games??

vargas · September 16, 2002 1:11PM

My favorite was a game called Stargoose. A classic action packed space shooter style game with a space ship that looked vaguely like a goose.

der kopf · September 16, 2002 1:16PM

I used to have an Atari 800 XT when I was younger, and I have re-played some of the games I used to play in X. (there are several sites devoted to emulating Atari's).

Ah, the memories. Really nice stuff sometimes.

I loved MULE, if anybody knows that, and Boulderdash II and The Great American Cross-Country Roadrace (a bit portentious perhaps, that title), and Monte Zuma, and so on. I think I have played Boulderdash the most. I must have finished all the levels of that game like 20 times at least.

roduk · September 16, 2002 1:17PM

I used to have some OS9 software that allowed you to download the actual ROM images from arcade machines (space invaders, pac man etc) and play the games on your Mac. I think the software itself was legal, but I can't remember what it was called or whether an OSX version was developed. Perhaps other people can help.

fran441 · September 16, 2002 1:28PM

Just remember not to post any links to ROMs.

giaguara · September 16, 2002 1:31PM

[quote]Originally posted by RodUK:

I used to have some OS9 software that allowed you to download the actual ROM images from arcade machines (space invaders, pac man etc) and play the games on your Mac. I think the software itself was legal, but I can't remember what it was called or whether an OSX version was developed. Perhaps other people can help.<hr></blockquote>

Cool! if you .. or someone else finds something like that for os x .. wooow!!!

Just that i have to go then to search for the floppies.. they are 3000 km from me...

Or i'll have to find someone to email me then.. maybe that works better...

Just feel like playing those dos games today...

Everything goes wrong... those can't ...

burningwheel · September 16, 2002 1:33PM

oops (see below) for my response....i messed up. i also forgot to list fav games so i'll do it here:

i like millipede (best game ever), centipede, joust, moon patrol, mario bros 2

[ 09-16-2002: Message edited by: burningwheel ]

burningwheel · September 16, 2002 1:34PM

[quote]Originally posted by burningwheel:

MacMame is an emulator for all the classic arcade games like Pac man Ms Pac man millipede, centipede, etc. . it has been carbonized, though i haven't try it. i used it on OS 8. and it was just like real arcade games. you can get emulators for atari, nintendo, sega etc. email for links to Roms. macmame can be found doing a search on google.<hr></blockquote>

[ 09-16-2002: Message edited by: burningwheel ]

peve · September 16, 2002 1:36PM

hi mulatta. how are you?

btw: i liked "raid over bungeling bay" and "fort apocalyse" on my c64.

roduk · September 16, 2002 1:46PM

That's it, MacMAME was what I was thinking of!

[ 09-16-2002: Message edited by: RodUK ]

alcimedes · September 16, 2002 2:34PM

i've had great luck playing old DOS games in OSX using Virtual PC.

stuff like privateer, syndicate the old, old king's quest, star control. all games i can play on my Mac that i can't play on my PC even. jerks.

jeremiah rich · September 16, 2002 3:16PM

I absolutely LOVE Moon Patrol. Now, of course that does not fall under the category of Dos, but, it is still my favorite game.

thegelding · September 16, 2002 3:30PM

loved miner 49 as a kid...think it became miner 2049 later on (basically a donkey kong rip off, except i think this can first...so i guess DK ripped off m-49er)...liked lemmings alot, but that was years later....liked digdug and tempest....i can remember when we got pong....we were the first ones around to get it...had people over all the time playing for hours....and that was freakin black and white with a slow moving "ball" moving from one side of the screen to the other....now we have kids playing games where they rip the spine out of their enemy...and have control pads what shake and vibrate with the action...what next?? maybe a control pad that drenches the player in blood when he rips that spine out?? g

drewprops · September 17, 2002 8:41AM

I disagree, I think that the Miner 49er game was definitely a post-DK game. I have my cart and instruction book around here somewhere, but no time to dig it out.

LOVED that game. Tried playing it on MacMAME awhile back and absolutely LOATHED it....because I kept losing. I haven't the patience I once had.

D

thegelding · September 17, 2002 9:18AM

drew...you are probably correct...college fried many circuits and memory boards in my head...were you able to play miner '49 in os X??? would love to give it a try myself, but you are probably correct in that i would loathe it now also....what we loved and had the patience for in our teens is often a horror when we are older.....g

hmmmm, but lemmings, i could see that still being fun...

giaguara · September 17, 2002 9:38AM

... just remembered my HI in Arkanoid was once 668.000 something.. i managed to make the DOS nuts ... <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />

still have to break that..

progmac · September 17, 2002 1:14PM

[quote]Originally posted by alcimedes:

i've had great luck playing old DOS games in OSX using Virtual PC.<hr></blockquote>

now THAT is some serious emulation.

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