I own this one: … patibility-cardĢ) yes, but then you can no longer use the Apple software to init the drive, since it will only work with Apple-branded drives. Reply 4 of 24, by Pablozġ) It's a PC on the PCI card, which shares mouse, keyboard, disk drive, and monitor from the Mac but is a full PC otherwise.
#MAC OS 8.6 IDE MAC OS#
You will hit compatibility issues if you're wanting to play really old games from the pre PowerPC era, many will point blank refuse to run on Mac OS 8 and above, some will fail on 9 but work on 8.0 or 8.1 etc.
Your best bet would probably be to stick with Mac OS 9.2.2 unless you particularly want to play OS X era games. Plus you'd also need a decent amount of RAM, at least 512 MB minimum for OS X decent performance (256 is still doable though). There may be compatibility issues with the onboard graphics in OS X though and if you did go with OS X you wouldn't be able to use a Voodoo card. Latest official supported OS is OS X 10.2 Jaguar, but it is possible to get 10.3 Panther & 10.4 Tiger running. I have a similar spec Mac and the minimum OS it can run is Mac OS 8.0 (but not the retail disc version). Some Mac ports can be poor or lacking features when compared with their PC equivalent also. As mentioned above, sometimes games are radically different from their PC equivalent versions. There's lots of games available for the Mac, ports of games available for both Windows & DOS. For a G3, however, I recommend 8.6 or 9.1, as those are the most stable ones. Many older games refuse to work on MacOS 8 and higher.
#MAC OS 8.6 IDE INSTALL#
I own one for PCI Macs and another one for my 6100, but never found the time to install them.īest OS for older Mac games is 7.5.5 (68k) or 7.6.1 (PPC). One option is a add a PC card so you can run PC games natively. It's simply a different experience playing these games on a Mac. Then there are games that are monochrome but hi-res. LucasArts games are upscaled and look quite odd, also they use QuickTime for MIDI music, which isn't the best thing either, as every version of QuickTime gives different results (newer versions tend to sound worse). Wolfenstein 3D for example (as you already meantioned it anyway) is almost a completely different game on the Mac. Now the thing is, many Mac versions are quite different to their PC counterparts. I even got a Voodoo 1 installed for games like Quake and Unreal.
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