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Re: ANYBODY HAVE A MAC EMULATOR FOR PC ?
Here in comp.emulators.mac.executor, delliott@bud.indirect.com (delliott)
spake unto us, saying:
> Quite the trick to run the Mac on Dos or Windows. Can it run one
> program or run all.
Pardon the brusqueness on my part, but have you bothered to read any
of the messages in this newsgroup at all?
Executor is a very nice trick (emulates a 68LC040 in software), and
it'll run in Linux and on NextStep as well as DOS (and under OS/2 VDMs
as well).
There are a large number of newer programs it doesn't run, since it
was developed completely independently from APple's ROMs, and since
its System 7.x support is very limited yet, but I've been able to
run a fairly large number of programs here. An informal list is as
follows (I don't make any guarantees that they work completely, but
I've played with all of these to some extent over the past several
months):
Utilities:
BBEdit Lite 3.0, Easy Errors 1.1, MacDOS 3.0, TexEdit 2.7.2,
Speedometer 1.0, Speedometer 3.2.3, Stop The Madness 0.851,
MacBreadBoard 1.1 Demo, Stuffit Expander 3.5.2, Globe 1.2, BinHex 5.0,
NIH Image 1.55, LC Anim 1.5, NSCA Paledit 1.1, Desktop Textures Vol 1,
Compact Pro 1.5, Disk Directory 0.9
Games:
Backgammon Freeware, Hexmines, Risk, Monopoly 4.03a, Stratego 0.95,
Shatterball 0.27, Glypha III 1.0.1 (with sound!), Lemmings Demo (with
sound!), Darkwood 2.5, Danger Swamps (original), Brickles Plus 3.0,
Mine 1.0, 1000 Miles, MacYahtzee, Lazilife 2.0c, Phraze Craze,
MacGolf 1.0, Test of Minds, Reversi, Missle Command, MacPong IIa,
Ingemar's Skiing Game 9.9u, Star Roids 7.0, PacMan, Minesweeper 1.3,
Eric's Ultimate Solitaire, Shufflepuck.
I just picked up a Walnut Creek CD-ROM called "Ultra Mac Games" that
has 1001 games on it, and I also have _Inside MacGames April 1995_
demo CD-ROM with stuff on it, so I'll be finding out more about things
that will or will not work fairly soon. :-)
(Yes, Executor/DOS handles Mac CD-ROMs on a PC <grin>).
Why not go to http://www.ardi.com and read the FAQ. After you've been
made aware of Executor's nature, capabilities, and current limitations,
our conversation here will be a lot more constructive.
> In other words, is your product the real deal or little more than a
> screen saver?
Works pretty well for me as a 1024x768x256 game platform, which is all
I really use Executor for at this point in time. But others here do
real work with it. See my above list of programs -- it's one HELL of
a screen saver, let me tell you! :-)
> Also, how much RAM is required in addition to the application to run
> like a MAC? 8? 16? 24?
Executor's requirements are somewhat user-configurable through the use
of command-line switches, and it might depend to some extent on the
version you're using (NextStep, Linux, DOS) and other factors. But it
ran here in 8MB fairly well, and now with 20MB it's very fast.
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