Heaven/TQA Posted January 4, 2011 Share Posted January 4, 2011 Hi Analmux A lot of us Atari 8 bit users seem to again have chosen for the best computer, so the question is: Will there be a Mac-version of this PC-Tool? sincerely Mathy Mathiy, you are right but what works esp. on Intel Macs is using Oracle's Virtual Box and Windows XP. I left my parallels + Windows 7 and using XP again. It is far less RAM and CPU consuming and for retro coding and gaming enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mathy Posted January 4, 2011 Share Posted January 4, 2011 Hello Karolj Sorry, but I didn't buy a Mac to run Windows on it, I bought it so I wouldn't even again have to deal with Windows. sincerely Mathy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted January 4, 2011 Share Posted January 4, 2011 (edited) Mathy, I know I know... me, too... I even left Windows in the office and glad to have a MBP but sometimes you have native applications you need to run and Virtual Box is an alternative if you don't have your tool ported to OSX. See G2F and RMT f.e. or Altirra. Edited January 4, 2011 by Heaven/TQA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mathy Posted January 4, 2011 Share Posted January 4, 2011 Hallo Karolj ... if you don't have your tool ported to OSX. Since the tool has not been written yet, this seemed to be the time to ask. sincerely Mathy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
analmux Posted January 4, 2011 Author Share Posted January 4, 2011 ...Will there be a Mac-version of this PC-Tool?... Well, if it's true what Heaven says, i.e. if it's easy to run a Windows XP/Vista/7 emulator on a Mac, then I'm not considering to put extra time in writing a Mac version. On the other hand, I might release the stuff as being 'open source', so if anyone else would like to write a Mac tool then that would be fine to me. The same applies to writing a user-friendly tool for a Windows-machine anyway: if anyone, who's got more experience than me writing a windows tool, would like to write a high-level PC-tool, then that's fine with me. The primary goal is writing an A8 playing core library, then writing a basic editor, also being an A8-tool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Creature XL Posted January 4, 2011 Share Posted January 4, 2011 @virtualbox: I use it with Linux and run Win7 in the box. Works like a dream. Win7 i snot that bad, and I am Linux guy! Further, there is the "Seamless mode". then you have a Windows-Program running in its own window, but this window is managed by your native WindowManager. And yes, sound is working wonderful with Virtualbox. Even video works great. @analmux RMT-2-HST sounds good. If I find the time and motivation I will look into using POKEY.dll. But do not count on that if you or anybody else can/want to do it go ahead Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
analmux Posted January 7, 2011 Author Share Posted January 7, 2011 ...RMT-2-HST sounds good.If I find the time and motivation I will look into using POKEY.dll.... OK, I'll keep this in mind. Thanks in advance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhusak Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 See G2F and RMT f.e. or Altirra. Well, all of them work fine under WINE on MacOS X. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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