Kittenmommy Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 I remember years ago playing the arcade game "Tempest" on an emulator for Mac OS 9. Is there something similar for Mac OS X? I did a search of this forum, but I didn't find anything. Any help would be appreciated! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warriorisabouttodie Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 I remember years ago playing the arcade game "Tempest" on an emulator for Mac OS 9. Is there something similar for Mac OS X? I did a search of this forum, but I didn't find anything. Any help would be appreciated! there is a program called diojag that does a 100% perfect Atari Jaguar emulation of Tempest 2000 for OSX. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bakasama Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 The only way I know of playing Tempest on Mac OS X is either using MacMAME or MAME OS X. Now to get ROMs for that, you can use google to get them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kittenmommy Posted June 13, 2008 Author Share Posted June 13, 2008 I remember years ago playing the arcade game "Tempest" on an emulator for Mac OS 9. Is there something similar for Mac OS X? I did a search of this forum, but I didn't find anything. Any help would be appreciated! there is a program called diojag that does a 100% perfect Atari Jaguar emulation of Tempest 2000 for OSX. I never had a Jaguar, but I knew someone who did. It came with a preview of "Myst", and we were astounded. I ran out and bought a copy for my Mac the next week! The only way I know of playing Tempest on Mac OS X is either using MacMAME or MAME OS X. Now to get ROMs for that, you can use google to get them. Thank you both! I'm going to check out both of those options tomorrow. Bakasama, I love your avatar! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bakasama Posted June 13, 2008 Share Posted June 13, 2008 The avatar is what Sue might look like on the 7800. Anyway, I just remembered that MAME OS X might need the updated set. To save you the trouble of looking for it, I'll link a place you can get the lastest version. HERE Look under "MAME 0.109 NEW/UPDATED ROMS" The last version of MacMAME is 103u2. It uses the older version of Tempest. That you can find with google. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kittenmommy Posted June 13, 2008 Author Share Posted June 13, 2008 The avatar is what Sue might look like on the 7800. Anyway, I just remembered that MAME OS X might need the updated set. To save you the trouble of looking for it, I'll link a place you can get the lastest version. HERE Look under "MAME 0.109 NEW/UPDATED ROMS" The last version of MacMAME is 103u2. It uses the older version of Tempest. That you can find with google. Thanks! And I love the detail on Sue's eyes. She looks like she has eyelashes, or maybe eyeshadow. Very cute! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mimo Posted June 13, 2008 Share Posted June 13, 2008 Are you looking for Tempest or Tempest 2000? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kittenmommy Posted June 14, 2008 Author Share Posted June 14, 2008 Are you looking for Tempest or Tempest 2000? The arcade game, "Tempest". I looked at the manual for "Tempest 2000" and while the graphics look amazing and I'm sure it's awesome, it kind of leaves me cold. I want the game I played when I was a kid, darn it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donssword Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 (edited) Yes, there was a specific Tempest clone for the Mac OS prior to 10/9.2. It was called "Arashi." It was written from the ground up as a true vector rendering program in Mac OS 7 or 8 (written specifically for the Mac), and it ran well in 9.1, but I tried to run it in 9.2 Classic mode a few years ago, and it would not, because of a conflict between the game's rendering engine, and the OS X rendering engine. It was a very faithful reproduction of Tempest, with the speed, sound, and vibrant color that you would have expected. The title screen featured a burst of lightning on the logo--the whole thing was very polished and mature for a simple little one-man program. Link: http://www.umich.edu/~archive/mac/game/arc...shi1.11.cpt.hqx Inside Mac Games blurb: http://www.insidemacgames.com/features/vie...D=32&Page=5 ArashiOne of the most fun, addictive and frustrating games ever available for the Mac never came to the Mac in the first place. Arashi is a Mac version of an arcade classic in which players would ride the edge of a geometric shape, fighting the robots that spawned from the shape’s center. The end result was an incredibly fun game in which the player tries to cover as much ground as possible while firing on moving targets. The perspective was absolutely nothing like what computer games had used up until that point. Imagine firing down a tunnel and trying to cover all sides of it at once, no matter what shape the tunnel may happen to be. This is Arashi. As the levels advanced, so did the game’s challenge, although never gradually. Arashi’s style is to escalate things dramatically, players scrambling along the shape’s edges frantically trying to defend themselves and avoid sections of the shape that the robots may have already occupied. Even moments when everything seemed in the clear and the player could advance to the next level presented a challenge, the game leaving lines that had to be destroyed within a fraction of a second as the player warped to the next level. The overall effect of this is warping to the next level while trying to destroy the lines in your path as not to collide with them and die. And things only got harder from there. When things became absolutely desperate, players were allowed one SuperZap per level that could be saved for the harder levels. The SuperZap acts as a flash that clears the screen of all enemies and provides a few seconds of sanity. This is something like emptying a river with a bucket during the higher levels. Arashi wasn’t revolutionary to the Macintosh in any way with the exception of bringing an arcade classic to the Mac back in 1994. The overall package is unbelievably fun and addictive, nothing less than a successful translation of a great arcade game to the Mac. Acknowledge the effort that went into a great, fun game and register your copy. It’s worth every cent and wherever the authors may be at the moment, they’ll thank you. Edited April 20, 2009 by donssword Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Wolfe Posted May 6, 2009 Share Posted May 6, 2009 (edited) OMG I remember Arashi. it is worth formatting a separate hard drive and booting old OS9 just to play it. of course I recently added an arcade spinner to my MAME cabinet and enjoy tempest that way but man oh ,man, Arashi was the next best thing to being in the arcade with Tempest as i recall. Great memories! hey while you're at it, fire up the old shareware game "Bill the Demon" for mac, which I believe was remade into a web browser flash game. Edited May 6, 2009 by Mark_Wolfe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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