BasiliskII is a 68k mac emulator (System 6 to 8) that compiles and works with a lot of games. I just compiled it when I discovered it isn't in ports anymore. There is some Makefile editing to compile --with-gtk because the configure script couldn't find gtk-config. Is there someplace I can get this old? script to simplify the building? (You really want the gtk2 GUI with BasiliskII because there are a bunch of runtime options.)
SheepShaver (System 9 PPC) I did not test, because I lost interest in Macs after the PPC bloat-up.
Executor (68k mac emulator requiring no Mac ROMs) is more trouble than it is worth. It can easily be compiled on Arch Linux (AUR) but it is very broken and I doubt many games will work on it. 3 of 4 games I tried failed to run. Only the included demos (Lemmings, Mac Breadboard, etc.) worked.
All sorts of funny errors #xyz related to disk access....
Minivmac is another Mac Plus and Mac II emulator (Systems 6 to 7). Easy to compile, tested a few games without problem. Has the ability to render double size which really takes the pain out of playing games whose native resolution is 640x480 and below.
I've looked at the porting handbook and it seems like it is hard to make a port. I think BasiliskII and minivmac used to be in ports years ago. Is there someplace I can find the old port files? Or just some simple, documented step-by-step example of making a port?
BasiliskII is described here as deleted: https://www.freshports.org/emulators/basiliskII/
For BasiliskII, a port would need to fetch source--now called "macemu"-- from github, run configure to get a Makefile, apply a few patches to main.cpp and Makefile, and gmake with the (patched) Makefile.
For minivmac, a port would need to download the source from the minivmac site, compile and run a binary to create a script to create another script to make the Makefile, run gmake.
SheepShaver (System 9 PPC) I did not test, because I lost interest in Macs after the PPC bloat-up.
Executor (68k mac emulator requiring no Mac ROMs) is more trouble than it is worth. It can easily be compiled on Arch Linux (AUR) but it is very broken and I doubt many games will work on it. 3 of 4 games I tried failed to run. Only the included demos (Lemmings, Mac Breadboard, etc.) worked.
All sorts of funny errors #xyz related to disk access....
Minivmac is another Mac Plus and Mac II emulator (Systems 6 to 7). Easy to compile, tested a few games without problem. Has the ability to render double size which really takes the pain out of playing games whose native resolution is 640x480 and below.
I've looked at the porting handbook and it seems like it is hard to make a port. I think BasiliskII and minivmac used to be in ports years ago. Is there someplace I can find the old port files? Or just some simple, documented step-by-step example of making a port?
BasiliskII is described here as deleted: https://www.freshports.org/emulators/basiliskII/
For BasiliskII, a port would need to fetch source--now called "macemu"-- from github, run configure to get a Makefile, apply a few patches to main.cpp and Makefile, and gmake with the (patched) Makefile.
For minivmac, a port would need to download the source from the minivmac site, compile and run a binary to create a script to create another script to make the Makefile, run gmake.
