Mac Pinball?

[ElKootcho]

Are there any decent Mac pinball emulators out there?

I'm in the middle of planning my CP and want to add pinball buttons if I can find any decent  OS X pinball.

[rubberpoultry]

I'm a Mac guy too, and I haven't found anything on the Pinball side. I ended up buying my first PC for my mame cabinet after lifelong Mac ownership. It was not a good experience. I couldn't get anything to work right at first. I've been spoiled buy how everything just works on the Mac.

[DrumAnBass]

Yep I am a major Mac geek as well, and I gave in and went to the dark side for my arcade cab for that very reason. Sure there is MacMame and about 2 front ends for OS-X, but what you don't have is all the multitude of emulators for other retro gaming consoles; and Visual Pinball...

But I was able to throw together a Semperon 2800 based PC for about $250. Sure Winodoze blows but for retro arcade endeavors it seems to be worth it to use a PeeCee.

[DaveMMR]

I gave in and went to the dark side for my arcade cab for that very reason.

Sure Winodoze blows but for retro arcade endeavors it seems to be worth it to use a PeeCee.

The dark side?  It's a Computer, not the Empire.  I could see having a strong preference over Mac if you're heavy in film or photo editing, but for an arcade cab - if you set it up correctly - you'll never, ever see the operating system. 

I'm not trying to start a PC vs. Mac war, but for arcade cabs I think Macs are just a horrible choice.  PC's are much cheaper for what it's being used for (sometimes even free if you know who to ask) and software is easier to find for it than a Mac.   QED

[DrumAnBass]

Yah I agree with you DaveMMR; sorry I was just sarcastically living up to the "pretentious mac user" stereotype ;-) 

Computers are just tools and you should use the best tool for the job at hand. And right now PCs have superior software for retro-gaming applications. 

[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]

I've been spoiled buy how everything just works on the Mac.

Except Visual Pinball...

 

[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.....