Why?
Why not.
One Machine not 3.
On a MacBook you have all your environments.
What?
That one thing you need to run for legacy.
Compatibility Checking
Some fun game.
Anything really.
Reviews are already WILDY out of date
http://www.macworld.com/article/55484/2007/02/vmwarevsparallels.html
Why an emulator and not BootCamp?
BootCamp requires a partition.
Emulators don’t need a physical disk.
Side-by-Side
Use Spaces to hold a whole window.
What choices are there for emulation
vmWare
Parallels
DOSbox
Cross Over
http://www.virtualbox.org/
Wine
MAME
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/33091
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=176560
SCUMM
What runs?
Windows
Linux
Solaris
DOS
Installation
licensing
Windows XP
Vista
Windows installs faster than Windows on hardware.
Performance
http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.24/24.02/VirtualizationBenchmark/
Zork 1, 2, 3 .exe
http://www.infocom-if.org/downloads/downloads.html
Visicalc
http://www.bricklin.com/history/vcexecutable.htm
Asterisk
http://asterisk.org/
Gizmo Project
http://gizmoproject.com/
February 12th, 2008 at 7:24 pm
Enjoyed the show, fusion works great. Anyone ever play Moon Patrol in the ’80’s? I wasted so much time and so many quarters on that my Soph year in college.
February 12th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
Is there a vm for vmware that emulates the NeXT OS? (and don’t say OS X).
I lusted after one of these computers and would like to see the OS first hand.
February 12th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
One more emulation I’ve been playing with is running the Classic Mac OS on my Intel iMac via SheepShaver. It’s a bit tricky to set up, but I found a fully baked install kit at the Yahoo discussion group for devotees of Corel WordPerfect 3.5e (no, I didn’t make that up). It runs an iteration of System 7.5 very well. I can’t say that it’s practical, but neither is the manual typewriter on my desk!
By the way, I too use Fusion with XP (to run just one app), and I couldn’t be happier with it.
February 13th, 2008 at 7:39 am
Have any of you heard of a problem with CoreAudio with the latest OS X 10.5.2 update?
I am recording a podcast with GarageBand and a Samson C01U USB mike and it becomes noisy after a few seconds of recording. (It sounds like an audio mike with a scratchy connection and after a few more seconds, I get an echo and the sound quality goes to screechy Hell.)
The same setup with OS X 10.5.1 works like a charm (I’ve got a backup on a FireWire drive and just set up the system to boot with the backup and I’m running perfectly.)
February 13th, 2008 at 7:55 am
Gridrunner is considered a classic and was out on a lot(most?) platforms of the day. There is an update called gridrunner++ that is available for osx.
It’s by Jeff Minter(YAK) who is pretty friendly to emulation by releasing a lot of his old stuff for use with emus.
check it out at http://www.llamasoft.co.uk/softography.php
bottom of page has links to his old games sorted by 8bit 16bit etc
February 19th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
Fun show. I have used a lot of emulators including MAME. One of my favorites is a pinball emulator that emulates the way real pinball machines would play.
Charles Rovira said he is having trouble with sound in garageband lately. I have had the same problem when hooking up a USB adapter for my electric guitar. It seems to work for a while but then starts getting very noisy (not just because I turned on the acid rock amp setting). It seems this may be a real bug. If anyone knows what’s up with this let us know.
David
February 19th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
Oh, also I forgot to ask if anyone can tell me what the UI was called that they mentioned to use with imagemagick?
February 20th, 2008 at 4:59 am
I like you show, but you really need to tighten it up (or do a bit of editing)… 1h20m is waaay too long…
May 12th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
You guys mentioned no emulator for IRIX. What exactly was on the SGI PCs? Was that just Windows? Or did SGI have something running on them?
May 12th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
SGI PC’s shipped with Windows NT4 and later in life Win2K. Both supported more than one processor which was part of the big deal of those machines. Although get this, the second processor was an optional item and it cost big to add from SGI.
May 23rd, 2008 at 7:56 am
I think you guys are confusing “emulating” with “virtualization”. Fusion and Parallels run on Intel Macs and have guest OS’s which are Intel x86 based.
Emulation would be something along the lines of Q and QEMU, which IMHO, deserve a lot more interest and support from the FOSS community.