The E-Maculation website is a good source for setting up emulators for any system, but I have yet to find a Mac emulator I would have been entirely happy with.
#Pc88 emulator for mac windows
Most of the emulators I have encountered so far are obsolete, and need to be ran under Windows 98 at best - some require a pure DOS even. As you might remember, I still haven't been able to find a good Classic Mac emulator that could launch Winter Games properly. The Apple II GS is a different beast, so it requires a different emulator, and so far, my choice has been KEGS.įor Macintosh gaming, it's not quite as easy. However, a reader by the name of Paperinik suggested another quite nice CPC emulator called WinCPC, which is also very recommendable.įor playing Apple II and IIe games, AppleWin is easily the best choice. WinAPE in particular, as it's the more modifiable one - at least, I couldn't find a way to run the GX4000 machine emulator with CPCE. So far, I have had no need of an Atom emulator for the blog, but I tried out Atomulator once, which worked well enough.įor most of your emulated Amstrad gaming needs, WinAPE and CPCE should be enough.
Still, occasionally, I need to turn to the help only ElectrEm can provide. Luckily, the first emulators I have come across have also worked well enough to my requirements, but if you know of any better emulators, I'm all ears.įor the most time, I'm using the BeebEm, which seems to be able to handle even some Electron games as well as BBC Micro and Master 128 games. I'll go about this in an alphabetical order, so I'll have to start with one of the names I'm the least familiar with - Acorn.
Emulation is the way to go, I'd say, so here we go.ĪCORN COMPUTERS: ATOM, BBC MICRO, ELECTRON Extracting them from your very own machines would be preferable, but I never understood how on earth could anyone get the inspiration for getting to know a machine by purchasing one for a small fortune, not even knowing for sure if it works, and then start working with it, very likely with no instructions or software. Note that I can offer no BIOS or ROM files (nor links for them) for certain emulators to work, so you will need to acquire them by using your preferred search engine.
#Pc88 emulator for mac manuals
So, this one goes out for all you other lazy retro gamers like me, who don't take pleasure in reading manuals too much. Sure, it needs to be as accurate as possible at the same time, but being easy to use is the most important thing for me in getting me to actually test any of the machines out even in emulation. I'm aware that there might be more accurate and more optimisable emulators out there, but my criteria for any emulator is simply, the ease of use, and that it works preferably on a 32-bit Windows 7.
So I decided to do a quick entry on my chosen emulators, and add in a few recommended ones in the mix. Occasionally, I get some inquiries as to which emulators I would suggest for certain machines, particularly the ones that are not as easy to find.
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