Re: new 68k for Dad

2003-03-24 Thread Adam
> On some platforms you'd run a degrader of some sort. > Doesn't one exist for the mac? > There is one I'm pretty sure, but I can't for the life of me remember what it's called. Cheers, Adam. -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.s

Re: new 68k for Dad

2003-03-24 Thread Darren
Steve Conrad wrote: >The past couple messages have come in duplicate from this list. Anyone know >why? > In my case, human error at my end. Sorry -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon

Re: new 68k for Dad

2003-03-24 Thread Steve Conrad
>Gregg Eshelman wrote: > >>Something you have to watch out for is that some >>games written for the older Macs had no speed control >>code, they'd just run as fast as possible. Thus they >>become unplayable on newer Macs because they run >>super fast. (Same problem as with early games written >>for

Re: new 68k for Dad

2003-03-24 Thread Darren
Gregg Eshelman wrote: >Something you have to watch out for is that some >games written for the older Macs had no speed control >code, they'd just run as fast as possible. Thus they >become unplayable on newer Macs because they run >super fast. (Same problem as with early games written >for the PC

Re: new 68k for Dad

2003-03-24 Thread Darren
Gregg Eshelman wrote: >Something you have to watch out for is that some >games written for the older Macs had no speed control >code, they'd just run as fast as possible. Thus they >become unplayable on newer Macs because they run >super fast. (Same problem as with early games written >for the PC

Re: Question For You All

2003-03-24 Thread Robert Gray
At 17:10:44 -0600 on 23 Mar, Steve Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Its Mystery Motherboard Time!...ID: 820-0380-A Apple Computer At 5:31 PM on 3/23/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Not much of a mystery when the only hit on Google >> for that part number tells you what it is. At 19

Re: new 68k for Dad

2003-03-24 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My dad has some old games that he wistfully speaks > of at times. He used to play them on his old SE. I > think his favorites were Playmaker Football and V > for Victory. I was thinking of getting him another > better, faster, color Mac so he could play them > aga

Re: new 68k for Dad

2003-03-24 Thread Fletch Brendan Good
>>2) Since it is possible to easily get many different types of >>machines from eBay or the Swaplist, >>what are the suggestions you >>folks have for a good gaming machine? > >The fastest possible system 6 Macs are the IIfx and the IIci (even >with certain 040 upgrades). The IIfx and the IIci w

Re: new 68k for Dad

2003-03-24 Thread Dustin Rinebold
With some of the older games, it's tough to tell what systems will work. A lot of programmers back then wrote directly to areas of the hardware that was subsequently changed later on by Apple. For example, I have a King's Quest II game that will not run on anything newer than a Mac II. Not my I

Re: new 68k for Dad

2003-03-24 Thread Marten van de Kraats
> > >1) Are the specs accurate on the Apple site as to which machines >can run System 6? It seems like very few of them can. This page lists the system 6 compatible Macs: http://www.euronet.nl/users/mvdk/hardware.html > >2) Since it is possible to easily get many different types of >machines

new 68k for Dad

2003-03-24 Thread Oobknarf
Hey all, My dad has some old games that he wistfully speaks of at times. He used to play them on his old SE. I think his favorites were Playmaker Football and V for Victory. I was thinking of getting him another better, faster, color Mac so he could play them again. I believe most of his

Re: Question For You All

2003-03-24 Thread Marten van de Kraats
>At 20:21 -0600 on 23/03/03, Steve Conrad wrote: > >>Too bad MacWeb was abandoned. It wasn't a bad little browser and it got > >There's a project, though I haven't a clue of its progress, to get the MacWWW >code updated for modern browsing and written in 68K assembly for best >performance. > >Marte