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Mac Pinball?
FrizzleFried:
Macs are Intel PC's now anyway. Same ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---, different OS. I am FORCED to use Mac OS9.2 still at work and it SUCKS something fierce. OSX is nice though...
DrumAnBass:
Ouch; OS-9 is mighty painful these days... But the early versions of MacMame in OS-9 running on a 40mhz Quadra840av is what got me into this hobby back in the day...
Crowquill:
Us Mac users are pretty much screwed on pinball. There is a Mac emulator to cover pretty much every console, though. Richard Bannister has ported most of them. His site (bannister.org) seems down at the moment, but I downloaded the latest version of Genesis Plus just the other day, so it's probably a temporary thing.
I guess there's always Virtual PC or if you have an Intel machine you could run Windows through Boot Camp or Parallels.
Some time ago on my PowerMac 6100, I played a lot of Crystal Caliburn. It's video pinball, but the physics and visuals were very well done. It seems there are newer versions to run under OS X now. ( www.littlewingpinball.com)
Havok:
--- Quote from: rubberpoultry on May 02, 2007, 09:40:11 pm ---I've been spoiled buy how everything just works on the Mac.
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Except Visual Pinball...
:P
gnateye:
just to chime in from the mac camp, ive built 4 macmame cabs and while they may not be the end all be all that a peecee could do, the old 300mhz powerpc macs were free and run macmame .57 on os8.6 just perfect, i havent had any problems. evn some of hte newer games run fine and the classics are perfect!
but i will admit if i had the time i would prolly go with a peecee just so i could have a front end.....