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| 3108.1 | | METALX::SWANSON | Victim of Changes | Wed Jan 29 1997 13:00 | 8 |
| I forgot to mention, Sparcade runs under DOS and needs 1 Meg of EMS.
A fast 486 is recommended.
It also will supposedly run Sega Game Gear and Master System games,
but I haven't found any of the ROM files for those.
Ken
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| 3108.2 | | METALX::SWANSON | Victim of Changes | Wed Jan 29 1997 21:30 | 15 |
| Here's another emulator that works with some different games.
Namely Asteroids, Battle zone, Tempest, Space Duel and some others
Unfortunately I couldn't get it to work. Apparently it didn't like my
video card, and the image was all overlapped at the top of the screen.
What I saw looked amazing though. Looked just like the arcade vector
graphics of Asteroids and the like. It looked much better than the
Microsoft Arcade game pack. (other than the fact that it wasn't
displaying right. :')
maybe someone else will have better luck.
Ken
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| 3108.3 | | METALX::SWANSON | Victim of Changes | Thu Jan 30 1997 11:25 | 6 |
| BTW, that last one I mentioned is at
METALX::DISK3:[PUBLIC.GAMES.EMU.EMU20]EMU20.ZIP
Also, I had to comment just about everything out of config.sys and autoexec.bat
to get it to come up at all.
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| 3108.4 | | 45862::HILTON | Save Water, drink beer | Fri Jan 31 1997 11:54 | 7 |
| Mike,
How did you get spacade to run?
It hangs up my PC!!
Greg
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| 3108.5 | | METALX::SWANSON | Victim of Changes | Fri Jan 31 1997 12:10 | 23 |
| >How did you get spacade to run?
It reqires EMS memory. 1 meg I think....
Boot to DOS to run it.
It worked just fine for me. It was the other one that gave me a problem.
(EMU20). But I got that one to work finally on a different PC. I found that
it gives you choices of resolution up to 1024x768! (which is nice for vector
graphics).
I also found that it says that distributing the ROM files with it, constitutes
an illegal distribution, and violates copyrights. I don't know if simply
putting the .ZIPs of the ROM files in the same directory is considered
"distributing" them with it, but I'm going to deny access to them until
I contact the author and ask him about it.
For now, you can get the ROM files from http://www.fangz.com/~aladdin/ziped.htm
(If you can't get EMU20 to run at all, try removing EMM386 from your config.
It uses DOS4GW anyway)
-Ken
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| 3108.6 | | METALX::SWANSON | Victim of Changes | Fri Jan 31 1997 15:07 | 8 |
| I got a reply from the author of EMU (Neil Bradley) about the
"distribution" question I had, and he said it was only illegal to
modify his .ZIP file.
Therefore, I put the protections back...
Ken
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| 3108.7 | Tons of emulators on the web | HOTLNE::DOYLE | | Sun Feb 02 1997 02:30 | 29 |
| There's a number of emulators out on the web.
Some that come to mind.
VGBDos - Virtual Game boy (just what you need to show off the power of
your pentium :') )
Coleco EMU - Colecovision emulator (I use this one, all the games fit
on one floppy!)
Executor2 - nice mac emulator, though a bit pricy ($249 for the
registered version)
C64s - C64 emulator, I own this ($35 registered) runs majority of c64
software quite nicely.
cc64 - C64 emulator, shareware/Crippled only runs .t64 images but seems
to do this quite nicely, I might invest in this one myself need
to test it a little more tho.
Along with a host of others that I've not tried for Atari 2600, Amiga,
Nintendo, MMX, sinclair, vectrex, SNES, Gamegear, Genesis, MMX,
TRS-80, etc........
Some are very limited in the functionality, but the ones I've listed
seem to work quite well. Caution on the game/software images though, some
of these are still copyrighted, with the exception of the Coleco and
perhaps the Vectrex and Sinclair.
Most computer emulators (c64 etc) come with a utility and cable to
convert your existing games to a file format readable by the emulator.
It is fun to recall how some of these games wowed us with the graphics and
sound. Strange enough though, some still hold up quite well.
Ed
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| 3108.8 | EMU worked with Generic VESA | METALX::SWANSON | Victim of Changes | Mon Feb 03 1997 09:39 | 18 |
| Wow, I didn't know there was so many available! It seems like a year
or so ago when I tried finding some, there weren't that many.
I managed to get EMU working BTW. There was a "Generic VESA" graphics
option that I didn't see the first time around. When I chose that
it worked (up to 640x480 anyway).
> Caution on the game/software images though, some
> of these are still copyrighted, with the exception of the Coleco and
> perhaps the Vectrex and Sinclair.
Yeah, I've seen enough warning messages about these that I'm going
to set protections to unreadable again on the ones I have. If you
want them, and haven't gotten them yet, you'll have to get them from
the web sites I mentioned. sorry!
Ken
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| 3108.9 | | 45862::HILTON | Save Water, drink beer | Wed Feb 05 1997 17:43 | 6 |
| Got sparcade running on my Hinote ultra, but only without sound, which
is a shame.
Still it's good retro gaming!
Greg
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| 3108.10 | | METALX::SWANSON | Victim of Changes | Thu Feb 06 1997 09:11 | 8 |
| > Still it's good retro gaming!
Yep!
Some of those games I forgot all about, despite the quarters I fed into
them! Pleiades was one of those. I wish that one had sound with it...
Ken
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