Windows download and setup instructions can be found here: While modern emulators can boast much better compatibility with actual Mac software, Executor is pretty much the only option for running Macintosh programmes if you don't own an old Mac that is emulated. Originally a commercial product, it apparently enjoyed some popularity back in the 90s and up to mid-2000s, but later the development halted, and eventually the authors released both the latest stable version and its source code into the public domain. There's a number of completely free, open source Mac emulators with support of the different CPU architecture and MacOS versions, but almost all of them require that you either use a ROM image obtained from an actual Mac that you own, or buy an emulation card to be plugged into the PC which will work in lieu of such a ROM (detailed information about the various emulators can be found at the E-Maculation Wiki).Īfter some searching I found information about an emulator (or rather, a compatibility layer) which requires neither a Mac ROM nor a copy of MacOS, but is capable of running software for 68k processors on DOS, Windows and Linux. Many titles have demo or shareware versions available, but trying them out while not owning an actual Mac is rather problematic. As such these versions are at least of purely historical interest.īut for whatever reason, even finding screenshots of Mac games on the Internet is sometimes pretty hard. Many games ported to Mac from DOS, Amiga or other computers or consoles would thus get (sometimes considerably) improved, high resolution graphics. In the DOS era, when many games used the standard VGA 320x200 mode by default, the higher 640x480 resolution was the norm for Macintosh computers.

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