Wouldn't you expect lists of recommendations to already exist? https://emaculation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8803 https://emaculation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=5351 (I was just thinking of Asterax the other day – or rather of how I had completely forgotten what it was called. Again.)...

In the interests of completion, I thought I might mention MacOpener here, which I stumbled upon the other day despite never having encountered it previously. It seems it went through quite a few iterations.
https://socket3.wordpress.com/2019/09/0 ... pener-2-0/

As Escape Velocity is a 68k game, it may be preferable to use Basilisk instead. I've got the first running, but each time I create a pilot, the pilot file is created, but as I play it's not updated, meaning I restart the game from scratch after a quit. How did you install the game? Did you copy the ...

I had hoped that with the sources of HFV Explorer becoming available, some sort of integration with The Unarchiver would be feasible, thus obliterating the need for Expander forever. Maybe some day. I also reckon something for mashing together all 14 parts of System 7.5.3 would be nice, but I guess ...

I often used to say that the lack of a free open-source BIOS and viable alternative to MacOS held back development efforts – but these days it seems like that doesn't really matter anymore. There are already emulators for old PCs and NeXT that emphasis on accuracy. Are you thinking of Bochs? Because...

blarg wrote:All of his business records were created on his old mac using a program called Filemaker II.

It might be worth pointing out that Filemaker is enormously popular and it may be worth looking into whether versions that can run natively in Windows 10 can still open those business records.

Stuffit expander just opens and closes whenever I try to extract anything. What version of Stuffit Expander are you using? I seem to recall it was originally distributed with a version of Expander, but my mind is fuzzy on the subject. It might only work with 4.x, which of course would not be able t...

You know you can play Marathon on any Windows PC using Aleph One, right? It should be much, much easier than emulation.
https://alephone.lhowon.org/

Anyway, if you hold down Shift while the emulated Macintosh boots up, it will boot with extensions off.

By all accounts phpBB is apparently riddled with security vulnerabilities. This might be the last phpBB board I visit semi-regularly.

Have there been any thoughts on switching to something else?

As I mentioned in your other thread, I would advise you to further investigate hardware problems before tearing your hair out looking for a software problem. See for instance https://superuser.com/questions/682984/usb-to-serial-rs232-adapter-with-full-handshake-flowcontrol-support . See also https:/...

craigers01 wrote:My windows host has an USB->RS232 cable attached.

I don't think I would trust one of those. You might be better off looking for some kind of PCI I/O card that works with your version of Windows, or possibly a PCMCIA serial card if you're using a laptop.

I have been able to unpack the archive on MacOS (with both unzip and with ditto). But the unpacked files don't look right; there is a "BBC BASIC" file but it is short - at 256 bytes, too short to be the interpreter. FYI: the 256-byte file is the "data fork" of the application. T...

After all these years it's nice to finally see something happening with this game again. I might just chip in.

You're not thinking of Taskmaker, are you? (Good ol' Taskmaker.)

"You lose". What a jolly little message.

I'm not sure what you've Googled, but https://github.com/cebix/macemu/issues/168 suggests you need to disable the JIT compiler on 64-bit machines.

(sheepshaver's guide makes frequent references to mac OS installation disks, but doesn't mention if we are talking the desired OS you want, or the one specified for your laptop if you're running OSX.) A large amount of prior knowledge or programs are also necessary, such as toast ($80) to make a .t...

I didn't know this was a thing. Would the SoftFPU extension be an option? (Googling around, I can't seem to find if it's available for download anywhere.)

There never was a CD icon on my MacOS desktop when I double-clicked the game installer, so I am unsure how to get the CD icon to appear. I'm sure I'm making an inane mistake, but I've tried everything I can think of to adhere to your response and have reached a dead end. As has been stated: Just ke...

OR, if I should try to get a bootable ISO of MacOS7... I'm not sure such a thing exists – or at least, not for Sheepshaver. I applaud your tenacity! May I suggest BoxedWine? http://www.boxedwine.org/ I have heard about Wine, not sure what's BoxedWine. Yes, that's why I provided the link. :???: As f...

(The game is a bitch that uses 16bit installer and a quicktime. Running on Win10? Forget it. Emulated WinXP under VirtualBox? It starts, but doesn't show any videos and claims there is no CD in the drive. Emulating under Windows 98SE and 95 is extremely slow and the sound stutters a lot. I have tri...

Have you tried using Basilisk II instead? Hypercard ought to run fine under Mac OS 7.5.x or 8.1.

Alternatively, have you tried running Sheepshaver or Basilisk II on your Windows server?

Maelstrom is also open source. So is Aquaria, but that was never an Ambrosia exclusive so it hardly seems worth mentioning. (Same goes for the ports of Introversion's games.)

Commentary on today's XKCD has led me to learn that, as per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrosia_Software , Ambrosia's website apparently vanished last month – though as some have noted, it ceased to be properly functional for the purposes of software registration some time ago. What could the fut...

I would like to know if there is a known cause for this behaviour. Why don't the animations show when the game is started the first time and only after a restart of Sheepshaver the animations suddenly are there? Sheepshaver is an imperfect emulator no longer under active development and it is not a...

Is this the problem you're describing in this old thread? https://emaculation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=9543&p=58346 Since the file sizes are identical, it seems to me that the resource fork information isn't being lost – aside from the Type/Creator data. If that's the case, then instea...