SH4 on a Mac in a VM - Works!!!

[Elphaba]

Hi everyone

Just in case there are any Apple Mac people out there, I just wanted to let people know that I have a 2008 iMac 24", with the 8800GS GPU, 4GB Ram, and 3.06GHz Core 2 Duo. I'm running Snow Leopard and Parallels 4.0.3846.

AND BOTH SH4 and SH3 work virtually flawlessly in a Virtual Machine!!!

Yay!!!!

Which mean I can leave them playing whilst I work, and when a contact pops up I have an excuse to stop work and 'blow sum s**t up'!!!


hehehehe


Thanks

Elphaba

[Rockin Robbins]

Holy cow, that's great! Nice to see that now that Macs have become PCs they really can finally be useful. That's really nice!

Now I wonder if either one can be coaxed to run in Virtualbox under Ubuntu Linux. I can't try it now because Microsloth restricts me from using my Windows software, even twice on the same machine but never running concurrently. So I can't install my copy of Windows inside Virtualbox. That steams me good!

If game companies made their games to run under Linux and Mac as well as Windows, lots of us would be forever grateful!

[Elphaba]

I don't know the specifics... but I've read that SH3 works fine under Ubuntu in a VM...

[Rockin Robbins]

I've read it too but the project leader is long gone and I haven't found any instructions that work. They were running it under WINE, which is not a virtual machine.

I've actually had much better luck running Linux programs under Windows with andLinux than I have running Windows stuff in Linux with WINE. Virtualbox would be the greatest but legally I'd have to buy another copy of Windows. Not going to do that. And I'm not going to cheat either because my dual boot system works just fine. If I need Windows I just boot it.

[Dieselglock]

Hello,

I have been running SH3 with GWX3 Gold and SH4 with OM,RFB,TMO on separate installs for around 18 months now.

I have run these programs on 2 different Macbook Pro's. My latest Pro is a 2.8 Duo Core, 4G ram. It has a 9600M GT video card with 512 Memory. I can run all graphics settings at max.

With both Mac's I have used Bootcamp that is included in the Mac software to partition the Windows portion of the 500g Seagate installed. I run XP pro on the windows portion.

I would have to say I am more than happy with this setup. I would not go back.

[Rockin Robbins]

Too bad Apple is a vendor of overpriced hardware first and a software company second. If I could buy OSX without having to buy their overpriced PC and I could run it on my present machine, I MIGHT be in the market. But their business model being what it is I just hiss in their general direction. Robber barons!

My PC is mine. I'll choose what's in it. I'll choose what software runs on it. I'll choose what software isn't on it. I'll choose whether I want to see web ads if I want, and will even choose which ones. I'm not interested in a non-upgradeable, second quality, black box type computer that assumes I'm a idiot. Of course it does that with a smile. It still irritates the dog squeeze out of me. Their PC/Mac guy commercials say it all. And Apple, in their smug arrogance, doesn't even realize how insulting to the public those are.

I'll never spend a penny on any Apple product. Other than that I wish them well.