Can a Mac run old DOS Games?

[TonK]

I have a hankering for Duke 3D and Shadow Warrior.

 

[RabbitTroop]

DOSBox is available on just about everything. I have Windows 3.1.1 installed running at 1024x768 with 256Meg of memory. Works like a champ. straight up DOS works perfect for most games too.

 

[Tacitus]

I have a hankering for Duke 3D and Shadow Warrior.

It will if it's intel based for sure.

you just need to run boot camp or a VM for dos (Use VMWare player, works like a champ)

I have a key for fusion if you want it.

If it's PowerPC based, you can download Virtual PC and it emulates a P2/P3 at around 266-400mhz, which shoul dbe just fine for what you're looking for.

 

[lantus360]

forget Virtual PC or BootCamp

run DosBox if you want to play old games like Duke and Shadow Warrior

 

[RabbitTroop]

It will if it's intel based for sure.

you just need to run boot camp or a VM for dos (Use VMWare player, works like a champ)

I have a key for fusion if you want it.

If it's PowerPC based, you can download Virtual PC and it emulates a P2/P3 at around 266-400mhz, which shoul dbe just fine for what you're looking for.

Complete overkill for 16bit games. DOSBox was made for them, and has a lot of nice features built right in for gaming. No need at all for VMWare for DOS or Win 3.1. Now, Tonk, if you want to do Windows XP, then I'd go for VMWare Fusion, but if it's just for gaming it won't be necessary.

 

[TonK]

DOSBox is available on just about everything. I have Windows 3.1.1 installed running at 1024x768 with 256Meg of memory. Works like a champ. straight up DOS works perfect for most games too.

I have an Intel Core Duo (Not Core 2 Duo) and a PPC 1.42GHz

I really don't know much else.

Can an Xbox 360 pad run on my Mac?

 

[RabbitTroop]

I have an Intel Core Duo (Not Core 2 Duo) and a PPC 1.42GHz

I really don't know much else.

Can an Xbox 360 pad run on my Mac?

All you need to do is download this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/dosbox/files/dosbox/0.74/DOSBox-0.74_Universal.dmg/download

Should play your games right out of the box. As for the 360 pad, probably not unless you have one of those MS USB wireless adapters for Xbox pads, but I'm not sure if there are drivers for it on Mac. If you have a PS3 pad, or other USB pad it will probably work, though.

 

[Igniz v2]

Re: the 360 pad, I use a wired pad on my Macbook for mame, works great. If it doesn't just plug and play, Microsoft will have the necessary drivers readily available on their site.

 

[Dr Shroom]

Tonk, for Duke3D try eduke (http://eduke32.com/ ), runs alot better than DosBox.

 

[NeoGeoNinja]

a PPC 1.42GHz

Hardcore!

Out of interest, which Mac (G4)? Love the design of the old MDD G4 tower myself...

 

[HeavyMachineGoob]

This is probably way out of the scope of this thread, but back in the 68 days, you could in fact get a "DOS card" for your Macintosh and run Windows that way. I don't remember what hardware models were compatible.

 

[RabbitTroop]

This is probably way out of the scope of this thread, but back in the 68 days, you could in fact get a "DOS card" for your Macintosh and run Windows that way. I don't remember what hardware models were compatible.

I had one. They were a full computer on a card. You booted into it with an app and it loaded in a new session. There wasn't a lot of ease in sharing between the machines. Mine was a 486 model. It worked alright. Did what it was supposed to, but for the price you were better off just buying a separate pc. Especially since you could get a lot more out of something like that.