So a while ago I bought this old 17" iMac G4 to tinker with. My main goal was to turn it into a mac-dc server (which I haven't done yet, shame on me ). It has received a few power-ups in the form of an 150G SSD & maxed out ram (2G). So as the completionist that I am, I also tracked down an old Airport Expresscard on ebay & gave my new baby the magic of wifi. I was good to go now...
After doing a clean install of OS X 10.5 (can't go any higher as it is a PPC) I was very surprised to see the thing boot in 43 seconds, I decided to check if I could still use it for anything more than a DC server so I started reading up on emulators & the likes...I used to play around with those things a lot, a long time ago when I still owned a PC and assumed all that stuff didn't exist for old macs...
So after searching the web for about 2 weeks I managed to come up with a bunch of interesting stuff.
At this time I have working emulators (all in fullscreen with full joystick support) for the following devices installed:
-ZX Spectrum (an old love as it was my first home comp in the 80's)
-Sega Msys
-Sega Genesis (no cd support yet)
-NES
-Snes
-PC Engine (with full cd support, burnt a game with SimplyBurns > it works)
-Playstation (cd support, but also loads iso's which imo is the way to go for any emulator)
-MAME
The playstation emulator is said to run only 70% of the games & I read it has some sound issues with certain games, but I'm glad I found a working one so who cares and I've been dying to play Blood Omen: Legacy Of Kain again (which I tried earlier & worked just fine so I guess that's gonna cost me a few months of my life again).
Also found other (supposedly working) emulators that I'm gonna give a shot in the next few weeks: C64, Amstrad CPC, Amiga, Atari, Wonderswan, NGPC, N64, etc...I really didn't know the PPC scene was this alive.
So in the end I'm actually very happy that I decided to buy the old thing, turned out to be a far better deal better than I expected it to be
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Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain, Kula World aka Roll Away.
Guess there's more than just SEGA on your mind afteral...
Good choices by the way...
Guess there's more than just SEGA on your mind afteral...
Good choices by the way...
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hell yeah, now I finally get to play the translated version of Castlevania: Rondo Of Blood
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the tattoo studio I used to work at had one just like it. I'm jelly. The thing loos like its in great shape! good find.
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