To make a long story short, I once had to take a hammer to a PowerBook’s casing to literally beat it back into shape after a fall left it in bad shape. I still keep that PowerBook around to this day, since it was the highest-end PowerBook ever produced that could still natively run Classic apps, making it the perfect machine for playing all of those great, classic, Mac games that never made the jump to OS X or Intel (insert a well-deserved joke here about Mac gaming).
Seriously though, I still bust it out every few years for a fresh playthrough of Future Cop LAPD (yes, I know it also came out for other platforms) or a few rounds of Gridz. For a number of years it was my only way to play Master of Orion II as well, but that gem was thankfully made available for purchase on modern systems eventually (yay for DOSBox and GOG).
>>insert a well-deserved joke here about Mac gaming
Oxymorons are dumb moron.
But no seriously, in the 90's I briefly played something that I'm 70% certain was called Mantra, a simple topdown zelda-like where you run around and kill stuff with swords 'n magic and some mana-hungry tidal wave spell. I think I maybemighta found a copy of something with the name, but only made some half-hearted attempts to run a virtual macOS that never panned out. I don't particularly care about the game, so much as the potential memory high it might give me.
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Seen on a button at an SF Convention:
Veteran of the Bermuda Triangle Expeditionary Force. 1990-1951.
Banged up, but still working to this day (Score:2)
To make a long story short, I once had to take a hammer to a PowerBook’s casing to literally beat it back into shape after a fall left it in bad shape. I still keep that PowerBook around to this day, since it was the highest-end PowerBook ever produced that could still natively run Classic apps, making it the perfect machine for playing all of those great, classic, Mac games that never made the jump to OS X or Intel (insert a well-deserved joke here about Mac gaming).
Seriously though, I still bust it out every few years for a fresh playthrough of Future Cop LAPD (yes, I know it also came out for other platforms) or a few rounds of Gridz. For a number of years it was my only way to play Master of Orion II as well, but that gem was thankfully made available for purchase on modern systems eventually (yay for DOSBox and GOG).
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>>insert a well-deserved joke here about Mac gaming
Oxymorons are dumb moron.
But no seriously, in the 90's I briefly played something that I'm 70% certain was called Mantra, a simple topdown zelda-like where you run around and kill stuff with swords 'n magic and some mana-hungry tidal wave spell. I think I maybemighta found a copy of something with the name, but only made some half-hearted attempts to run a virtual macOS that never panned out. I don't particularly care about the game, so much as the potential memory high it might give me.
OT: On hardware, I s