This Old Mac Episode 2
Hello Ladies and Gentleman and welcome back to This Old Mac. Since we were last here I had to replace one of the four hard drives in the Mac Pro. So Cabbage has now been replaced with Potato which is a 250GB Hitachi Hard Drive.
I discovered Cabbage had a problem when I was unzipping things to it. It suddenly just gave a major series of errors and then when I rebooted my Mac it totally removed it from the list and tried to initialise it. However if you tried it just gave an error and that was the end of that drive.
So with Potato installed as a replacement I started to unzip various Tosecs onto it. So Potato is the emulation central drive. After a lot of trimming of redundant items and waiting a long time for The Unarchiver to unzip everything.
Now the reason I was unzipping lots of Tosecs. Was I have been installing a large number of emulators on the Mac Pro. As you can see from the dock I have installed several.
The list of emulators are
Fuse (ZX Spectrum) Vice x64 (Commodore 64) Atari800MacX (Atari 800) Magic Engine (PC Engine/TG16/SGFX) Generator (Megadrive/Genesis) Nestopia (NES) Snes9x (Super Nintendo)) KiGB (Gameboy/ Gameboy Color) Boycott Advance (Gameboy Advance) Vecx (Vectrex) Beebem4 (BBC)
Also I am using the Wineskin Winery (Wine) to run XM6Pro which is a Sharp X68000 emulator from Windows which is working well on the Mac here.
So I have plenty of emulators and from this screen shot you will see that on Potato I have plenty of games to keep me amused.
Many of the emulators came from the Richard Bannister website but several others didn't. It took a bit of trial and error to find the right versions that would work with Snow Leopard but I got there in the end. Basically if you Google hard enough you will find them.
Also on the dock you will notice Einstein. Einstein is an emulator of the Apple Newton. As a man who still owns an Apple Newton 2100. Its nice to see a Newton Emulator.
If there is anything you would like me to be running on the Mac Pro providing I can do so without too much effort. Feel free to make some suggestions and comments.
Ok well that's all for now so until next time... take care