What model of Apple Macintosh plays games like Shockwave?...

[ataridave]

I own a 3DO, but I'm curious as to what type of old Macintosh I'd need to play games like Shockwave, and others, that were also on the Macintosh? I used iMacs sometimes in college in the late 1990's for word processing, but I don't think any of them had CD-ROM drives, which you'd need to play games like Shockwave.

[Osgeld]

unless you are a mac head I dunno if it is worth it. Mac's started transitioning from 68k to power pc about then which were binary incompatible, some software is only 68k some is only ppc some is a fat app that has both compiled and combined into one launcher.

 

Given the nature of 3do games I would presume that they want a power pc, bu I cant tell you for sure that the all do.

 

In light of that information, a old power pc imac (crt up to lamp style) should be overkill for most of those games, thus running smooth, and AFAIK they all had CD roms except for the G5 model

 

you will also need one that has classic OS on it, though classic mode on OSX might work, but its kind of hit and miss with stuff

Edited January 11, 2014 by Osgeld

[akator]

The first iMacs all had optical drives, USB, the PowePC G3 processor, but no floppy drives. If you needed floppy you would plug in a USB floppy drive.

 

I remember playing Shockwave on a Mac at work sometime around 95. That would have been a version of System 7, likely 7.5. I can't say for sure that it wouldn't run on 68K machines, but by that time most games had already transitioned to PowerPC.

[ataridave]

Would it work on an iMac G3? Those are the cheapest.

[Christophero Sly]

Based on the year the game was released, I'm guessing any PowerPC-based Mac running OS 7, 8, or 9 would run the game. Even if the game is 68k native, it should run fine on a PowerPC-based Mac.

 

You may even be able to run the game through "Classic" mode on OS 10.1 to 10.4.

[ataridave]

Would an Apple iMac G3 be able to play the Shockwave games, and most other Macintosh CD-ROM games from the 1990s?

[OldSchoolRetroGamer]

Found with some Google-Fu

Macintosh Business Model Commercial Minimum CPU Class Required Motorola 68040 Minimum OS Class Required System 7.0 Minimum RAM Required 8 MB Media Type CD-ROM Minimum CD-ROM Drive Speed Required 2X Input Devices Supported Joystick (Analog), Keyboard, Mouse Number of Players: Offline 1 Player

PC specs for comparison:

Windows Business Model Commercial Minimum CPU Class Required 80486DX2 Minimum OS Class Required Windows 95 Minimum RAM Required 8 MB Media Type CD-ROM Minimum CD-ROM Drive Speed Required 2X Video Modes Supported SVGA/XGA (640*480) Minimum Video Memory Required 1 MB Input Devices Supported Keyboard, Mouse, Other Input Devices Number of Players: Offline 1 Player Notes 66 MHz CPU.

Edited July 23, 2014 by OldSchoolRetroGamer