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Old Sierra Games?
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Join Date: Feb 2004
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I'm getting a hankering to play some old Sierra games such as Manhunter 1 & 2, and Police Quest 1 & 2. Anyone know if there is an emulator to play these games natively on the Mac? Surely a 1.25ghz G4 can emulate a 286 fast enough to play these games..
Any thoughts? My biggest obstacle right now is finding a 5.25" drive to transfer the data off the original 360k flopppies.
-Paul
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Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Highland Park, IL / Santa Monica, CA
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VPC would run 'em 
You can also check out the free x86 emulators at www.emulation.net , since you wouldn't need much speed for such old games.
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Be happy.
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Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Salamanca, España
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I could take Sean Connery in a fight... I could definitely take him.
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Join Date: Nov 2002
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Oh man, Police Quest. Those games were so awesome. At least I remember them being awesome.
I got a hankerin' for Lode Runner just now.
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Join Date: Nov 2003
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Police Quest was great, but man, nothing beats the classic King's Quest games. I used to spend hours playing those games. They were hard before they added in the toolbar, when you had to type everything.
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Join Date: Mar 2001
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Sarien is the answer - I recently finished Spae Quest 2 in Sarien!
PB.
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Aut Caesar aut nihil.
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I've been playing all of my old Sierra favorites (Space Quest series, Quest for Glory series, King's Quest series, Police Quest series, etc.) under DOSBox and they all work great. I used Fink to install DOSBox and SDL (automatically added if you don't have it when you select DOSBox) and I've had great results
I'm a little puzzled over how to send a diagonal arrow key command for some games (esp. PQ1) on a PowerBook but apart from that I've been having a great nostalgic time.
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Join Date: May 2003
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Originally posted by voodoo:
How about Sarien?
http://sarien.sourceforge.net/
It isn't 100% complete but might work for you.
There are a few ready-made emulators here http://this.is/vortex/osx-ports/?action=games
The games above are emulated through FreeSCI -- I don't know it there is an official Mac OS X release of FreeSCI, but that is a nice Sierra adventure game emulator for Linux.
this definitely takes me back...Sarien doesn't seem to have an OSX counterpart as far as I can see
The guy who ported those few Sierra games...sound is lacking, but he should get in contact with the ScummVM guys...I'd love to see some of these working on OSX...especially Space Quest...i was a HUGE fan of those.
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Join Date: Mar 2001
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I could take Sean Connery in a fight... I could definitely take him.
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nice...but how the hell do i get it to run? (have a bunch of old Sierra OS9 games...)
i get some text prompt and have no idea what to do.
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