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Mac OS X binaries are the most susceptible to bit rot of any major OS. There's constant platform churn, all of it closed source, and there's nowhere near the co
by throwaway19567 17d ago
Mac OS X binaries are the most susceptible to bit rot of any major OS. There's constant platform churn, all of it closed source, and there's nowhere near the community that exists around emulating older Windows.
You can reliably run DOS, Win, Linux applications of almost any vintage with the right translation layer / emulator, but there's a black hole of MacOS apps circa 2002-2012 that just no longer runs on anything, even later Intel Macs.
I used to enjoy a cute little Pacman clone called Pac the Man X, for example, and I just don't know how I could run this today. Seems to reliably take down any emulator I've thrown at it - presumably it's using some kind of graphics acceleration that's not emulated. (Suggestions welcome.)
- joombaga 17d agoIt runs on Rosetta w/ a few fixes. https://gist.github.com/JoshCooley/095b80f9639a4dc7e762208ae4ba01ec#file-fix-pac-the-man-x-sh https://gist.github.com/JoshCooley/095b80f9639a4dc7e762208ae...
- throwaway45436 17d ago[dead]
- BillStrong 17d agoVMs with GPU passed through. You can get Mac compatible GPUs that will work, look for the Dortania OpenCore guide GPU lists to find one that works for the version of Mac OS X it runs on. Looking on Macintosh Repository, that game will run on Intel CPUs and Snow Leopard, 10.6+. (IDK for sure.) You can emulate Intel Mac OS X using QEMU on linux machines, there are some scripts that make it easy from Proxmox that I use. You can also emulate PPC Mac OS X and pass through devices, but I have not tried to do this, so your mileage may vary. It is easier to emulate 10.7+ versions than 10.6, but you can get it to work from 10.4 with work.