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Frodo is a crossplatform C64 emulator for windows, macos, beos, riscos, and many more. Take the system you have now and use it as a C64, or emulate a million other systems as well.

I'm really sorry, but this is yet another case of shoddy journalism and actual fact checking before publishing. I know slashdot is far from a "professional" grade news source, but I would like to think that there is at least a small bit of integrity in there somewhere. Speaking of integrity, whatch this get modded down, -1 Troll, -1 Offtopic, -1 Redundant, -1 Overrated, -1 too many mod points for editors.

Frodo
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GBA-X apparently does not have a web page as far as I can tell. Some screenshots are available here, though.

And, my personal favorite...

Final Burn

Also, CXBX looks like a pretty interesting. It's attempting to run Xbox software on a compatible PC. From the page:

"the process of converting an xbox executable (.xbe) to a windows "portable executable" (PE, [.exe]) has been a success. despite rumors floating around, .xbe -> .exe converstion is entirely possible, and is already being done. the problem is that a lot of work is necessary to fullfill the environmental expectations of an xbox executable. most importantly, kernel exports and certain hardware are expected, and must be emulated. the kernel emulation will be done by wrapping around existing win32 api. this is explained in the progress section."

Interesting point, but I really doubt that this is aimed at the general consumer. It's for Joe Linux, who prides himself on doing nifty tech things with Linux.

Okay, Tux Racer may not be the most amazing thing in the world, but it's fun for a couple hours.

Freeciv...why is freeciv bad? You don't like civilization? There are some differences, but aside from the fact that civ had more artists (and, IMHO, a worse interface) and is a bit easier to use, not huge difference in fun factor.

Lets consider some others:

zangband/ToME/angband/nethack/etc: These *are* a lot of fun. Diablo has much more simplistic, boring gameplay, and it took off all over. Most variants have a pretty simple text or 2d graphics based interface without music, but some are a bit more elaborate. Be a bit of a pain to play on the controller, yes...

Chromium BSU: flashy scrolling shooter. Could use the 3d hardware in the X-box.

Dunno if you can just use ordinary ol' x86 binaries (particularly considering RAM usage), but:

Quake 3 (use the 3d hardware). Not free.

Abuse: This was a *blast* when it came out -- I played it over and over. It's looking a little dated now, but it's still a good game. Free now -- thanks crack.com.

Pingus is apparently shaping up pretty well.

There's part of the amazing Exile series available for Linux. (shareware)

Maelstrom may be too "simple" for you, as it's only an astroids clone, but it was a very well known game on the Mac for a long time, and I still like it.

While I'm not a tremendous fan of Illwinter's Conquest of Elysium II, their Dominions: Priests, Prophets, and Pretenders is a non-flashy but very deep, very good strategy game. Shareware.

There's a DOS-style shooter from Mountain King Studios, Raptor. (shareware)

Finally, there are all the emulators and whatnot...take a look at GNUboy, TuxNES, snes9x, DGen/SDL,
FreeSCI, Sarien, Exult, XU4, ScummVM, Basilisk II, YAE and others.

There are a host of Loki ports that you can't get any more except used. Lots of good stuff from LGames, though I'm not as big a fan of their stuff as some other people are.

Finally, text-based but really, really sophisticated, good, and almost all of them free, there are text-based interactive fiction (Try Tower of Babel before giving up on this...first one I ever beat without cheating, and it's *soooooo* good). The Interactive Fiction Archive has games and players.

Finally, many good games can be played through WINE -- Starcraft, Fallout, Max Payne, Half Life...

These are just some of the games that I enjoy under Linux. There are lots more (admittedly, some of lower quality) available at the SDL Games Page and the Linux Games Tome.

Linux games usually take a bit more (okay, often a lot :-) ) more effort to set up properly. But they're often very customizable, you can actually have an impact on the game design ("This game needs feature X"), and you don't have to leave the comfortable environs of Linux. And the environment is getting better, not worse.

If you're that lazy, why don't you STFU? Oh, I see, better that 100, or 1000, or 10000 slashdot readers should have to go googling for the link than that you should waste your oh-so-much-more-precious time doing so. You self-centered, antisocial fuck. OBTW, the link is Basilisk II

Your $10-15 per month covers not only the fees for the servers and bandwidth, but for monthly additions in the form of new items, new areas to explore, new monsters, etc.

Clan Lord does this one better: The $35 initial purchase price includes 3 months of play ($30 value), so the CD only costs $5. New items, areas, monsters, etc. are rolled out in biweekly updates. There are only two significant downsides: It runs only on a Mac or Mac emulator, and it is 2-d, not 3-d.

Then you can run the Basilisk II Mac emulator and have the fastest compact Mac.

I've heard rumors that there a plans for a PPC emulating Basilisk in the works, though.

When antimatter is made in the lab, it is stored in something called a "Penning Trap". Indeed, it is a type of magnetic confinement.

More info, here

The question of porting a non-unix MacOS X application to Linux makes me wonder what the current state of MacOS emulation under Linux is. I see that Basilisk is apparently a GPL'ed 68k Mac emulator under relatively active development, and that the proprietary executor is still available, along with Carbonless Copies from the same company. Also, a couple of others are discussed on emulators.com.

I am interested in having a remote MacOS application server on Linux, especially if they integrate VNC service into MOL because the native MacOS VNC server has not been the greatest quality. Before, I was considering doing it with Basilisk II which is a 68k Mac emulator which requires an individually licensed MacOS ROM. Thanks!

I regularly use the Basilisk II Macintosh emulator to capture a bit of nostalgic system 7 flavor. It's truly a great project, with ports to BeOS, Windows, just about any flavor of Unix (including linux) and AmigaOS of all things. There is a networking transport, sounds work, you can mount the drives of the parent OS, just about everyting you could want or need in an emulator.

You'll likely need to download more than what's linked to above.

Try here instead (unless it gets slashdotted):
http://www.uni-mainz.de/~bauec002/A1Main.html

K45

You can also get Aleph One from the Author's mainsite. There are some screenshots there as well. Also included are datafiles that are necessary to get the game running.

Enjoy

Try:
vmware
Plex86
Basilisk

Basically anything that gets you out of X, which is exceptionally primitive, lacking as it does alpha blending, true type fonts, etc., and being useful only for people running software over a network.

I'm not trying to be rude, but if you're going to do graphic design work, you should use a graphics design tool - in other words not X, which is unsuitable - how could you present as work those ugly blocky fonts?

If you want to do anything I recommend a good set of tools - if you're doing cross-country driving I'd recommend a 4 by 4 vehicle - to use a cadillac would be silly, and if you're going to do graphic design work you should use a graphic designer's tool - a Macintosh or Windows.

Exactly--I think emulation has become so big precisely because of the nostalgia associated with those quirky old games we all used to play, or just the quirky old OSes we made do with. After all, some of the first emulators were for things like the Atari 2600, ancient technology with horrid graphics and pitiful resolution by today's standards--but we remember fondly those old games.

No one has mentioned this one yet, so I thought I'd post it right toward the top since I LOVE it so much. It is bar none my favorite piece of software--I use it every day. It's Basilisk II, the open-source project that emulates a 68k-based Macintosh.

And it emulates a 68k Mac perfectly, only faster than the originals on my old K6-2 400. I can't wait to see it speed along when I finally upgrade--AMD, VIA, please hurry up and get dual Athlon solutions out the door, okay? The proggie is even optimized for dual processor machines; you can run it on one particular CPU, and use the other for other tasks.

This brings me to the one drawback: it tries to eat 100% of CPU time, from what I understand even on fast machines--but not a problem if you stay inside the emulated Mac while it's running, like I do, or have a dual-processor machine.

But Basilisk II is superior in most respects to the closed-source, commercial Mac emulators, SoftMac 2000 and Fusion--it's much more stable, crashing less frequently than a real 68k Mac, whereas Fusion and SoftMac crash more often.

I highly recommend that anyone who's ever used an old Mac and liked it or some of its software, check out Basilisk II at its homepage. If you run it under a Windoze platform, the homepage for the Windows port is here.

The great part is that Mac OS versions through 7.5.3 and its update to 7.5.5 are free for download from Apple's own website, so that you can run a real MacOS unlike with the runtime environment Executor some here may have tried. Links to Apple's FTP to get the OS are on each Basilisk II homepage, but the directions for installing MacOS on a HFS partition image file seem a bit more detailed at the Windoze version's homepage.

The only thing you need is a Mac 68k ROM, which you can download from a real Mac you own (instructions are given for how to copy this to a file), or you could pirate it from the Net. A ROM from a Quadra works best, since it's a 32-bit clean ROM unlike some of the older 16-bit "dirty" ROMs. Not that I condone piracy, but...you can easily find quadra.rom with some creative guesswork at Google.

It's been great to have that old Mac I used to use at the college computer lab in '95 back, and better than ever. I've been playing Barrack, one of my favorite games of all time. I've been playing that quaint old classic Risk, simple but addictive as it was in the early 90s. And Basilisk II even allows your virtual Mac to use your PC's internet connection, so grab Netscape 3.04 from the Netscape archives and have deja vu all over again (I still think the rounded look of the old versions of Netscape for the Mac are better than most of today's browsers look).

Sorry for running on so long, but I love it. The only problem has been tracking down older versions of Mac apps and games--I decided I wanted to make my virtual Mac an authentic 1995 beast, not only was it my first year of college, it's the year the Net really exploded into the mainstream. I've been collecting these old apps that were common back then, and eventually, even though it's a copyright violation, I'm going to release a 150MB HFS partition file on the Net containing a snapshot of 1995, with all the common software that's now difficult to find. Much of it I had to find by poring through old FTP mirrors, like this and from here. The olf NCSA Telnet and NCSA Mosaic ftp archives are still there, and have period versions of common utilities.

Anyway, I just thought I'd share something about my favourite emulator. Ciao.

Now If I could only emulate macs...

You can, to a certain extent (68k machines only, and only up to OS 8.1): check Basilisk II. Should do the trick for 3rd and 4th generation browsers.

Basilisk is another alternative. It emulates a Mac II, allowing you to run Mac OS up to version 8.1. It supports floppies, CD-ROM drives, Ethernet (but not LocalTalk), hard drive images, and direct access of SCSI devices (plug in a Mac scsi hard drive and you can boot the emulator from it.) It won't, however, run PowerPC software. But it's Open Source.

What you were thinking of is Basilisk II. Of course, as with any Mac emulator, you need a (preferebly legal) ROM image to run it. Basilisk will take any 512k or greater ROM, and I think it has to be 32-bit clean (so SE/30 or earlier is out).

Oh, I think you dropped this, </a>

I don't know about a WINE equivalent, but there is Basilisk, a Mac emulator. It requires an image of a real ROM, but I understand it's quite good.

I was a Commodre-64 addicted youth right down to 'drawing' with coloured characters on the screen using keyboard codes and painful cursor movement. I had a kids book of programming fun for BASIC on the c64 which helped. Basically anything that has a colorful result will capture attention. High-school taught me pascal and I in turn taught my public-school brother a few tricks with colours and text and before I knew it he had a character bouncing around the screen by himself. In essence, anything which is easy to create colourful and interactive programs (C is not easy, pascal is pretty good, any other suggestions? ) Is ideal to capture the imagination. You could always install a C64 emulator like Frodo... ;-)

My goodness, what about xfm? It predates KDE and GNOME -- it probably predates TK, for cryin' out loud. It wasn't pretty, but it never required one to type a filename.

And th ere are quite a few more. (Sorry to insist on the cached copy, but the original site is a trifle slow to respond from my location.)

The references article is not the worst piece of Linux journalism I have seen, but it's not very impressive either. A little research would have made it a much better article...but a much less effective piece of hype.

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The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.

And here's the link

http://wwwthep.physik.uni-main z.de/~frink/utils.html

Nugget94M asks:

You! Reading this article! Do you use ssh and pgp?
No!

If not, why not?

Because ssh is non-free, and pgp is patent encumbered. Why use that when there are excellent Free alternatives, such as:
SSLrsh
SSL-MZtelnet
gpg
S/WAN

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Look in ftp.uni-mainz.de:/pub/int ernet/security/ssl/SSLapps/ for some SSL-aware telnet/ftp clients and servers.

its a dual pII 300, you're getting files with almost 600kb/s, but we have some more nice things: and we have some star wars troop-movies btw

10mbit in the DFN (German scientific net)