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Message: 3492

Author: Gregory, Steve

Date: 28/03/2003

Subject: Re: [Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy] Re: Jet Set Willy

 

>The number of people who have said that... The truth is, Windows 98
>gives me so much trouble it's unreal, and I keep menaing to go over
>to Linux, but I'm just too old now to learn a new OS (at least,
>that's how I feel...), but an entirely new machine would be nice, and
>I've heard Apple laptops are great, though a little expensive. Still,
>if (when) I buy another machine it'll have to last me for several
>years, so I may as well buy quality.

i can believe it.. the girl friend has a pc and this is constant mither, now we're moving intogether and i've converted her to the way of the apple. :-) We buy an iBook today for her uni work, then we're selling the PC!
You're never too old to learn something new and being a Mac - it's soooo easy to use. A friend has just bought a PowerBook and it's amazing, so fast.

>One thing, though, what are the (Spectrum and other) emulators like
>on the Mac? The PC has many faults, but it's emulators tend to be
>first rate - I have an old P75 laptop which, despite being too slow
>to run any games newer than Quake or so, faultlessly emulates the
>Spectrum, the C64 (spit spit), the NES, the Atari 2600 and so on, and
>even does a fair job of emulating the Atari ST, the Megadrive and the
>SNES (these aren't perfect though, as the only emulators that run on
>my laptop at full speed for these machines lack full compatibility).

I use MacSpectacle, though there are many others for OSX (i'm using an old mac for the moment running OS9). MacSpectacle handles every 48/128 game perfectly.
All the other emus you are talking about are also cool on the Mac. Check out www.emulation.net or Richard Bannister's site (i think!) the url is something like www.bannister.org.. though i can never remember that proper!
NoSTalgia (ST emu) is a favourite of mine, handles all the games but not too many of the demos. Unfortunetly, the old Mac's like mine have been left behind by the newer ones running OSX. :-( NoSTalgia is no different and is now only being developed for OSX, still that's that progress - microsoft don't support W95 anymore, so Apple don't support OS9..
btw, i've also got a couple of snes and megadrive emulators too, these run superbly even on my old and slow Mac, fwiw. :-)

>And does Mac software nowadays run along the predominant "bloatware"
>lines of current PC software? You know, 2GHz CPU, 2.5GB hard disc
>space, GF4 GFX card etc required for smooth, non-jerky play? It still
>amazes me that Perfect Dark crams so much into 32MB, Goldeneye into
>16MB, Manic Miner into 48KB and Jetpac into 16KB, when the newest PC
>games take up nearly 3GB of hard disc space and still need a 40MB
>patch to run! Not that I'm bemoaning all new PC software, of course,
>some stuff is great (Mafia and GTA3 are awesome and I'm looking
>forward to seeing Unreal 2, although UT2003 was a bit of a letdown),
>but I'll stop here as this is a JSW/MM group, not PC (thankfully, or
>we'd all have to suffer "dO yOu m8s Kn0w WhErE i CaN d/L nEw WaReZ???
>tHiS sUcKs U lAmErZ sHoUlD bUy An XbOx D00D [etc etc]". *shiver*)

bloatware? not really, though some do complain about microsoft and their office app. I've got Word and like i said above, mine's an old and classic Mac, but word and office run very fast. Apparently, the OSX version of IE isn't too hot but Apple have released Safari and this is supposed to be the fastest web browser there is.
Yep, this isn't a mac or pc group.. better stop! (sorry mr.moderator!).
If u wanna checkout some Mac s/w or roms/zx games, then try this ftp site:
ftp://massiveftp.serveftp.com
Try and use an ftp client rather than a web browser, and use an ACTIVE connection rather than PASSIVE. Username = 'anonymous' and password can be anything u like! Port 21, of course. It's run by this top guy i know..

Steve :-)

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