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DestinyCalling · « **on:** September 27, 2003, 05:58:30 pm »

The question is..... Are there any? And how do you get SFC to run on one????

Lepton1 · « **Reply #1 on:** September 27, 2003, 07:01:38 pm »

I am wondering if there is a PC emulator for the mac that might be able to handle SFC. Not sure it could handle using the DirectX libraries though.

If you do a search for PC emulators for Mac you are liable to find a number of options.

Here is an open source (read as free) emulator. http://bochs.sourceforge.net/getcurrent.html

DestinyCalling · « **Reply #2 on:** September 27, 2003, 07:08:09 pm »

Well I dont actually own one... But I kinda like them, they dont crash and they're great for actually doing work on... Was thinking of one of the new G5's... Nice

jualdeaux · « **Reply #3 on:** September 27, 2003, 07:27:39 pm »

I think Dreadlord is a mac head but he ended up having to get a PC in order to play the SFC series. He was one of the most vocal support of a mac port of the game. We found out quite some time ago that the port was eventually dropped and is very unlikely ever to be done.

FormerDM · « **Reply #4 on:** September 28, 2003, 01:38:57 am »

Dread is a Mac head? A man with taste

1) The Mac port of SFC is dead. MacPlay was working on SFC:EAW. By the time it looked like it would be done, not enough time remained (licensing if I recall) to be worth publishing.
2) I've tried an emulator (Virtual PC on a G4 Mac). Too slow to be playable.

I ended up buying a PC to play SFC. Yup, dopey eh?

The G5 smokes. I bought one at work. Darn pretty too.
PC Mag has a review where they ran it against a Dell Precision 650 Workstation running dual 3.06-GHz Xeon processors (each with a 512K cache) and outfitted with four 512MB SDRAM SIMMs and an nVidia Quadro FX 1000 graphics card.

Bottom line: G5 is generally as fast as the best Intel-based workstations currently available

jualdeaux · « **Reply #5 on:** September 28, 2003, 12:50:06 pm »

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Dread is a Mac head? A man with taste

1) The Mac port of SFC is dead. MacPlay was working on SFC:EAW. By the time it looked like it would be done, not enough time remained (licensing if I recall) to be worth publishing.
2) I've tried an emulator (Virtual PC on a G4 Mac). Too slow to be playable.

I ended up buying a PC to play SFC. Yup, dopey eh?

The G5 smokes. I bought one at work. Darn pretty too.
PC Mag has a review where they ran it against a Dell Precision 650 Workstation running dual 3.06-GHz Xeon processors (each with a 512K cache) and outfitted with four 512MB SDRAM SIMMs and an nVidia Quadro FX 1000 graphics card.

Bottom line: G5 is generally as fast as the best Intel-based workstations currently available

I think it is Dread. It has been a while since this topic came up so I might be wrong.

Pestalence · « **Reply #6 on:** September 28, 2003, 02:42:36 pm »

Have you seen the latest articles where Mac's are going to PC components to keep up with PC in both the hardware and software market?

they are in the process of designing their new systems to operate Geforce FX 5900 Ultra cards.

Just FYI.. why stick with mac when their software developement is stagnant... anything coming out for PC usually takes 2 years to make it to Mac currently and as such, the software is outdated.. unless it is Mac created software from scratch like the OS software or Quicktime player..

I use to love Mac's, but when i switched over to a P II years ago, the software available for PC at that time was mind boggeling... now it is hard for me to even consider going Mac at all due to them not having any software that suits my purpose...

just my thoughts..

Whiplash · « **Reply #9 on:** October 02, 2003, 08:38:18 pm »

I own one. I do most of my mundane stuff on it. Office, web, etc. But I have a PC also, so I don't run games on it, except for the simpler ones. WingNuts, Pocket Tanks, popcap stuff.

Mac OS X has some OS-hosting subsystems built right in, which is why it can share the desktop with OS 9. I have heard that VirtualPC isn't too bad. It contains a PC-on-a-card. With it, you can run Windows XP in a window on your OS X desktop. I looked at it a while back. It'll set you back almost 200 to get the card with the bundled XP. It ought to be able to run SFC2/OP. If you research it and find out for sure, I'd like to know.

W

Whiplash · « **Reply #10 on:** October 02, 2003, 08:42:45 pm »

Oh, my bad. VirtualPC is the one that is purely an emulator, but it can emulate PC hardware...

W.

Mr. Hypergol · « **Reply #11 on:** October 02, 2003, 09:03:02 pm »

My first computer in the 80's was a Mac SE/30. I had always owned Macs exclusively until SFC1 came out. I bought my first PC for that game. I researched both the Mac PC cards and the Virtual PC emulator software. I found that the card was so expensive that I might as well buy the PC and I found that Virtual PC did not perform well with high end graphics.....hence I bought a Gateway PC.

I had always had the latest Mac before SFC, but now I have enough money to own BOTH, so I do.

When I built my house a few years ago I pre-wired a Brinks OnQ LAN network and amplified video system into it. I have a networked computer and T.V. in every bedroom and in the office / bonus room.

At least one of these computers will always be a Mac because I grew up with them and will always love them.

DestinyCalling · « **Reply #13 on:** September 27, 2003, 05:58:30 pm »

The question is..... Are there any? And how do you get SFC to run on one????

Lepton1 · « **Reply #14 on:** September 27, 2003, 07:01:38 pm »

I am wondering if there is a PC emulator for the mac that might be able to handle SFC. Not sure it could handle using the DirectX libraries though.

If you do a search for PC emulators for Mac you are liable to find a number of options.

Here is an open source (read as free) emulator. http://bochs.sourceforge.net/getcurrent.html

DestinyCalling · « **Reply #15 on:** September 27, 2003, 07:08:09 pm »

Well I dont actually own one... But I kinda like them, they dont crash and they're great for actually doing work on... Was thinking of one of the new G5's... Nice

jualdeaux · « **Reply #16 on:** September 27, 2003, 07:27:39 pm »

I think Dreadlord is a mac head but he ended up having to get a PC in order to play the SFC series. He was one of the most vocal support of a mac port of the game. We found out quite some time ago that the port was eventually dropped and is very unlikely ever to be done.

FormerDM · « **Reply #17 on:** September 28, 2003, 01:38:57 am »

Dread is a Mac head? A man with taste

1) The Mac port of SFC is dead. MacPlay was working on SFC:EAW. By the time it looked like it would be done, not enough time remained (licensing if I recall) to be worth publishing.
2) I've tried an emulator (Virtual PC on a G4 Mac). Too slow to be playable.

I ended up buying a PC to play SFC. Yup, dopey eh?

The G5 smokes. I bought one at work. Darn pretty too.
PC Mag has a review where they ran it against a Dell Precision 650 Workstation running dual 3.06-GHz Xeon processors (each with a 512K cache) and outfitted with four 512MB SDRAM SIMMs and an nVidia Quadro FX 1000 graphics card.

Bottom line: G5 is generally as fast as the best Intel-based workstations currently available

Pestalence · « **Reply #19 on:** September 28, 2003, 02:42:36 pm »

Have you seen the latest articles where Mac's are going to PC components to keep up with PC in both the hardware and software market?

they are in the process of designing their new systems to operate Geforce FX 5900 Ultra cards.

Just FYI.. why stick with mac when their software developement is stagnant... anything coming out for PC usually takes 2 years to make it to Mac currently and as such, the software is outdated.. unless it is Mac created software from scratch like the OS software or Quicktime player..

I use to love Mac's, but when i switched over to a P II years ago, the software available for PC at that time was mind boggeling... now it is hard for me to even consider going Mac at all due to them not having any software that suits my purpose...

just my thoughts..

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