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Offline Anodizer

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Games for a Mac G5?
« on: June 04, 2009, 09:22:29 PM »
The Mac I got (for free) is not of the Intel architecture.. 
It's a PowerMacG5 dual 2.0ghz processors with 3.5 gigs of RAM and an ATI 9800 Pro PCI/e...

Tried looking up some info on this but there seems to be a gap in between the old and new architecture..

Tried some older games but they didn't work on this OS(10.5.6)..
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Re: Games for a Mac G5?
« Reply #1 on: June 04, 2009, 09:28:10 PM »
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Re: Games for a Mac G5?
« Reply #2 on: June 04, 2009, 09:32:34 PM »
Quote from: Anodizer on June 04, 2009, 09:22:29 PM
The Mac I got (for free) is not of the Intel architecture.. 
It's a PowerMacG5 dual 2.0ghz processors with 3.5 gigs of RAM and an ATI 9800 Pro PCI/e...

Tried looking up some info on this but there seems to be a gap in between the old and new architecture..

Tried some older games but they didn't work on this OS(10.5.6)..

Everyone that I knew that had a Mac (pre-Intel) always had Virtual PC installed so they could play PC games.


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Re: Games for a Mac G5?
« Reply #3 on: June 04, 2009, 09:46:38 PM »
Quote from: Ack-Ack on June 04, 2009, 09:32:34 PM
Everyone that I knew that had a Mac (pre-Intel) always had Virtual PC installed so they could play PC games.


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I have a copy of Virtual PC, but of Windows 98 and does not work one bit on my oldish Mac, so I doubt it will work on his G5. I keep it around for watching movies on my laptop though.

Looks like this, though mine is only calls itself the Mac OS, no numbers yet.
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Re: Games for a Mac G5?
« Reply #4 on: June 04, 2009, 11:16:50 PM »
Quote from: Ack-Ack on June 04, 2009, 09:32:34 PM
Everyone that I knew that had a Mac (pre-Intel) always had Virtual PC installed so they could play PC games.


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Thank you sir...  I'll try it...

Any word on performance and what era games would it play?
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Re: Games for a Mac G5?
« Reply #5 on: June 05, 2009, 12:49:41 AM »
Depending on the version of the Virtual PC, they ran Windows 95 and 98 last time I looked through my dad's old computer boxes, but there may be some more versions of Virtual PC.

Is dual booting the computer not an option?
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Re: Games for a Mac G5?
« Reply #6 on: June 05, 2009, 01:32:55 AM »
Quote from: Anodizer on June 04, 2009, 11:16:50 PM
Thank you sir...  I'll try it...

Any word on performance and what era games would it play?

Virtual PC 7.0.3

From the screenshot, it looks like it's able to run XP.


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Re: Games for a Mac G5?
« Reply #7 on: June 05, 2009, 02:51:01 AM »
Quote from: Enker on June 05, 2009, 12:49:41 AM
Depending on the version of the Virtual PC, they ran Windows 95 and 98 last time I looked through my dad's old computer boxes, but there may be some more versions of Virtual PC.

Is dual booting the computer not an option?

not on the g5s
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Re: Games for a Mac G5?
« Reply #8 on: June 05, 2009, 04:00:12 AM »
Boat Anchor Simulator?
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Re: Games for a Mac G5?
« Reply #9 on: June 05, 2009, 04:21:30 AM »
Ghost recon is avialable in mac version. plenty of addons and stuff to dl for it too
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Re: Games for a Mac G5?
« Reply #10 on: June 05, 2009, 08:11:00 AM »
There are some good demos you can find out there for OSX... Unreal Tournament, MoH, Ghost Recon, X-Plane, Spyhunter. BtRL has a good OSX demo, too.

If you're into retro games, check out the Aleph One porting of the old Marathon game from Bungie. :aok
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