DOS/Windows Emulation

Ariena Najea

Ariena Najea

Silence and Motion

Join Date: Jul 2006

Buffalo NY

New Horizon [NH]

I'm looking for a program that will allow me to run DOS or Windows on my iBook G3 (PowerPC). I'm hoping to be able to run Roller Coaster Tycoon (original) on this machine, but I can't find anything that is compatible with G3 hardware, and the darwine project seems to be long abandoned.

My G3 is running OS 10.4 if that helps.

EDIT: I thought I posted this in software, but I must have messed up. Sorry!

Tarun

Tarun

Technician's Corner Moderator

Join Date: Jan 2006

The TARDIS

http://www.lunarsoft.net/ http://forums.lunarsoft.net/

Considered VirtualBox?

refer

refer

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jan 2009

US

I'd get RC2 if I were you... it doens't force you to unlock a bunch of parks, sandbox mode, almost clone of RC1 but with tons of upgrades and nice features.

Ariena Najea

Ariena Najea

Silence and Motion

Join Date: Jul 2006

Buffalo NY

New Horizon [NH]

Just went to the VirtualBox site, and they don't have support for PowerPC processors. Only i86 and AMD64 =(

Unless I misunderstand what I need, which is entirely possible.

Brett Kuntz

Brett Kuntz

Core Guru

Join Date: Feb 2005

VBox doesn't support DirectX anyways, which the game is, right?

rattex

rattex

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jun 2009

South Africa

The ZA Illuminati

Rt/

Crossover Games or VMware Fusion
both work quite nicely.

Ariena Najea

Ariena Najea

Silence and Motion

Join Date: Jul 2006

Buffalo NY

New Horizon [NH]

Quote:
Originally Posted by rattex View Post
Crossover Games or VMware Fusion
both work quite nicely.
Thanks for posting, but both of these only work on Intel based Macs.

Tarun

Tarun

Technician's Corner Moderator

Join Date: Jan 2006

The TARDIS

http://www.lunarsoft.net/ http://forums.lunarsoft.net/

Bootcamp and Parallels is all else I can think of, but they most likely need Intel as well.

Ariena Najea

Ariena Najea

Silence and Motion

Join Date: Jul 2006

Buffalo NY

New Horizon [NH]

I found out that VirtualPC was originally created for this very purpose, and although they don't sell the PPC version anymore, friends in Sweden have me covered.

Thanks for the help everyone!