Emulators on a Mac=specs

[Demon-Seed]

Hello
I may be able to get ahold of some older macs and I am wondering what type of mac I would need to run say MK full speed? I noticed there are several emulators available on mac but all the specs usually on say what OS to run ie) Mac OS x or 10.3... unlike a pc it does not say 1ghz chip with 256 ram?

anyone help?

Is there a front end for mac?

thanks
Jim

[WhereEaglesDare]

if they are the intel based macs then in my opinion the only good option is to put windows on it.

[Blanka]

Most consoles have decent emu's, MAME is fully on par since SDL mame is available, BUT, it's an Intel game now. MK will NOT run good on G4/G5's. Maybe as N64 game, but not as arcade version.
So SDLMame, Richard Banister and Emulaunch (FE) are the words to google.

[Unit504]

i have a Mac G5 running MacMame, and the results are not that great tbh.
I have MK1, 2 & 3 on there and they run rubbish!! MK1 just about playable the other 2 no way!

I sourced a cheap old dell tower and installed the mame em on there and all he MK titles and they all run as they should (100% like the arcade versions!)

Mac's are great for most thing but when it comes to mame, your going to have lots of issues.

S.

[Demon-Seed]

Hey
Great thanks for the info I much appreciate it.

[Unit504]

what mac you running spec wise? with what mame software?

S.

Hey
Great thanks for the info I much appreciate it.

[Demon-Seed]

At the moment I do not have one for emulation just for home use, however I was looking at a G3 or 4.. the g3 was I think 700 mhz

thanks
Jim

[taylormadelv]

I do a lot of emulation with old Macs. OS X places too much burden on the CPU for many mame games. You can get much faster speeds running OS 9 (if possible) on the same box. Old games run great on a G3 333 and up a bit better on a G4 but not as much as you would expect. When you move to OS X, everything starts to "dog" for me. CPU intensive games need a PC IMO.
I run Macs as "dedicated mames" playing 1 game only. PC's are king for playing all kinds of different games and front ends.

[Demon-Seed]

Hey
Thanks I appreciate it.. It seems that pcs are everywhere anyways...