Comments on: Emulating just about Anything

By: thedude

thedude — Fri, 23 May 2008 15:56:09 +0000

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.

By: macbreaktech

macbreaktech — Tue, 13 May 2008 01:36:16 +0000

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.

By: Steve K.

Steve K. — Tue, 13 May 2008 01:24:43 +0000

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?

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:59:26 +0000

I like you show, but you really need to tighten it up (or do a bit of editing)… 1h20m is waaay too long…

By: David Warden

David Warden — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:08:54 +0000

Oh, also I forgot to ask if anyone can tell me what the UI was called that they mentioned to use with imagemagick?

By: David Warden

David Warden — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:07:57 +0000

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

By: Tom Mahady

Tom Mahady — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:55:39 +0000

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

By: Charles-A. Rovira

Charles-A. Rovira — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:39:30 +0000

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.)

By: Steve N.

Steve N. — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 05:08:10 +0000

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.

By: Aang

Aang — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 03:56:11 +0000

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.