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    Firewire DVD-ROM Emulator

    I figure this is a pretty long shot, and it doesn't even have to be a Mac app specifically, but I'm going to ask here anyway -- I am looking for a way to emulate a DVD-ROM that can mount a disc image (ISO, etc.) and present it over FireWire and it appear on another machine just as if I had...
  2. kotsoum

    Universal Retroman: Premium Game Boy, GBA & NES emulator

    Hey retro gaming enthusiasts! I'm excited to announce a special event for Retroman, the premium NES emulator for iOS. For a limited time, we're offering the PRO version completely FREE of charge! This is our way of saying thank you to our amazing community and giving everyone a chance to...
  3. PrinceCreed

    Apps ArcEmu - Game Boy Emulator for Apple Watch

    Hello, MacRumors community! 

I'm Raffaele, developer of Arcadia, and I'm excited to introduce ArcEmu: a Game Boy (Color) and Game Boy Advance emulator for Apple Watch, iPhone and iPad. The emulation cores used are:
 - SameBoy (Game Boy and Game Boy Color)
 - mGBA (Game Boy Advance) I worked...
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    Discovery for prospective Watch buyers…

    As someone considering buying an Apple Watch, I wanted to find a simulator of the Watch, with different faces, complications, and even apps. Had no luck. But, then, I discovered I can download the Watch app from the App Store to my iPhone and see Watch faces and complications and explore...
  5. ultrasaw

    What Emulators/Games Run Best on the G3?

    So I understand the G3's capabilities are... not particularly broad, especially relative to newer and faster PPC chips. That being said I am pretty uninformed when it comes to the plethora of software that both runs and has been optimized to run on the thing. Emulators in particular peak my...
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    Game not connecting to server using android emulators

    Hi. I just recently got a new 2020 MacBook Air, which is running Catalina. On my old 2011 MacBook I had an older version of BlueStacks that was able to play a game called Elves vs. Dwarves flawlessly. The old MacBook was running Sierra. I downloaded the most up to date version of...
  7. Syncretic

    MP 1,1-5,1 MP3,1 (& others?) SSE 4.2 emulation (to enable AMD Metal driver)

    MouSSE (Partial SSE4.2 Emulator) Public Release Current version: 0.95 (8 Jun 2021) When referring folks to MouSSE, please just link directly to this post, which will always contain the latest version & info. EDIT (8 Jun 2021/1 Sep 2021): Monterey changed things up, so a new version was...
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    macOS Create and monitor virtual serial port

    I got a piece of code written in Python that interacts with different devices through a serial port connection. I usually run in on a Raspberry Pi (e.g. /dev/ttyUSB0 port) or PC (e.g. COM0 port). Currently, I don't have access to these devices, but need to debug the code and only got my MacBook...
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    Apps Need updated info for NES Provenance on ATV 4th Gen

    Hi everybody, ! I'm a newbie here in this forum. Im here because I want to be able to play my NES on my apple TV 4th Generation. I found plenty of how to's on internet/Youtube but the problem is that these information are outdated with 2015/2016/2017 instructions that are not applied to today...
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    McAfee flagging wine (emulator) as "suspicious file"

    Please Note: I was not sure whether this question belongs to “windows, linux on mac” or here. Seeing as this is more of a troubleshooting I decided to post it here, but I wouldn’t mind if the mods decide to move it if necessary. Hi there, I have an active subscription for McAfee internet...
  11. vaverdugo

    Warcraft 1996 on Macbook Pro 2014

    Hey guys, Do you know if there's a way to play old Blizzard games on my Macbook Pro? I'm interested in Warcraft and Diablo games. Thank you! Aaron
  12. mode11

    OS X Recent SDLMAME 3D game performance

    Hi, had a search around the forum but couldn't find anything on this topic. I'm experiencing very low frame rates (seems like about 2fps) in 3D games such as Ridge Racer 2 in SDLMAME, on Sierra 10.2.3. The 2D menu screens before the race work at full speed, but once into the actual race...
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    Android Emulator

    Android Emulator is the easiest of wizards that can be installed and played in simple steps. If you are a game maniac then I would recommend you to download and install the Android Emulator. The installation is simple and self explanatory. Wanna check then have a click at...
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    Can I play old games on my new MacBook Pro?

    I'd like to play some old games, namely the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater series (2, 3 and 4). These games were made for PowerPC based Macs, therefore the newest macOS does not support them. I read that I can purchase OSX Snow Leopard and I can install it to a VirtualBox/VMWware/Parallels virtual...
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    PC Emulator For Macs

    Hello - Looking for recommendations on Emulators that I can use on My Mac. I have a iMac running OSX El Capitan. I have alot of work spreadsheets (from my PC) with vba macros that I would like to run on my home mac. Recently got excel 2016 for mac but was sadly disappointed when there was...
  16. TomWickline

    Experimental 64 bit Wine OS X packages ready for testing

    Hi all, Recently there were multiple requests to provide experimental OS X 64 bit packages. I decided to give it a try and updated our build system and cross compiling tool-chain during the last days. Luckily the whole idea turned out to be less difficult than I thought, and I can now present...
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    Setting up .app icons for old DOS games running in DOSBox

    I have a lot of old DOS games which I like to have set up as app icons on Mac OS X. I found DOSBox surprisingly good, especially if you run games in full screen (Alt+Enter, or set fullscreen=true in ~/Library/Preferences/DOSBox 0.73 Preferences). The way I have set up my games is this: 1) I...
  18. TomWickline

    WineHQ Wine Mac OS X binary downlad packages now available

    If you want to use Wine on OS X we have binary builds now available, with Wine 1.9.0 or later X11 will no longer need to be installed in order for Wine to work on OS X the full post and all links are here : http://www.windowsonmac.com/2016/01/winehq-wine-mac-os-x-binary-downlad.html