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Mac68k Side of Vampire

Vojin Vidanovic

Posts 770
07 Jun 2017 11:27


Question, beside running Basilisk and Fusion /Shape Shifter nice and dandy,
    could we have even faster Mac68k sandbox just for certain apps or games or maybe RunInUAE kind of Basilisk integration?
   
    Continuation of part of conversation
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        ericdc30 wrote: ↑
        Sun 19 Feb 2017 00:09
   
        As a software developer I was thinking of heading over to macintoshgarden.org and explore the compilers, IDEs, assemblers and see how things evolved over the years. Perhaps revisit old games I played like Shufflepuck, SimCity, etc and various other apps I used. Maybe try to get it online with a browser. Also there are some kids games such as Arthur's Computer Adventure that my daughter would probably enjoy. But that is me personally. Having an accelerator with a tons of RAM and potentially fast disk access means I can focus on a single Macintosh Plus or Macintosh SE and not have to buy a whole lineup of computers.
   
   
    Vojin Vidanovic (vox) wrote:
   
    Well, I find MacOS of that time cute and clean design, kind of cute TOS like :-) I hated one button mouse and some other stuff of the time, and 68k Macs simply didnt make it to Southeast Europe (later PPC macOSX machines did went to DTP and graphics design studios). But to my understanding, there is a nice software library for m68k Mac
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    It includes ... hmmm ... Photoshop and Netscape Communicator 4, Pagemaker 3.0,
    and some nice games like Duke, early Wolfstein 3D and so on.
   
    I know Basilisk runs fine, but due to hardware compatibility, it would be best if we could have some kind of MacOS m68k sandbox inside ... Vampire special Mac 68k, package like AmigaKit real but Hacintosh 68k :-) Its quite vintage, but yet updated to some Amiga Classic software, and extra layer of productivity could be lurking on Macintosh side. Backporting if possible.
 
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  Past video examples
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  Yup, its Photoshop4 and illustrator 6
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  7th guest CD ROM game
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  Warcraft and Gabriels Knight
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  XWing
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  SimCity2000, Wolfenstien3D,Marathon,Prince of Persia.
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  Duke3D
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  Tie Figter
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  Warcraft 2, Larry and so on
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Thierry Atheist

Posts 644
08 Jun 2017 09:29


Hi Vojin,

Hey.... wait a minute....

Is there any 680x0 Macintosh web browser that supports Java and/or Flash animation????

AND can that flash animation SOMEHOW be processed and transferred through to an AMIGA screen???????? :-DDDD


Vojin Vidanovic

Posts 770
08 Jun 2017 10:19


"Is there any 680x0 Macintosh web browser that supports Java and/or Flash animation???"
 
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No Flash
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  Nice idea. Dont know how feasable is. But, for flash, no at that time Mac was 68k and it came to MacOS X PPC. Nestcape Communicator 4 exists for Mac68k and should be HTML 3.x + JAVA.
 
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Old Java in last OS
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Requires: 040, 12MB RAM

  Mac OS 8.1 is last 68k OS and was the first system to have a DVD Universal Disk Format (UDF) driver and also shipped with the new Java runtime (JDK 1.13).
 
  Download 202MB zipped ISO EXTERNAL LINK 
 
  On Amiga Java side, there is 0.5 68k early aplha build of Jamiga,
  I know NOT of another implementation EXTERNAL LINK
  It is supposed to be Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.4.1 implementation for the Amiga Platform (OS 3.9 & 4.0)
 
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Mac browsers
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  Last Mac68k browsers are Communicator 4.08
  EXTERNAL LINK 
  And for M$ lowers and masochists MS IE 4.01
  EXTERNAL LINK 
  Apple had to ship IE as default browser so there would
  be an M$ Office for their system ... Old days of browser wars

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