Computer Games

Game Archives:

• https://macsourceports.com/games No need for an emulator!

Emulators

• MacOS 9
  • https://macos9.app Excellent setup. No install. Share to local drive. Don’t close browser window, otherwise you need to start mac up again:-)
  • http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/macos9osx.html Love the ability to share a folder and drag and drop.
  • UTM - Installed from App Store and booted MacOS 9 UTM image from website. No Sound, crashes when sound is enabled.

Games

Maelstrom

https://macsourceports.com/game/maelstrom Macsource Ports is the fastest gameplay. True to the original. Other options:

• https://macos9.app Works but it feels a tiny little bit jittery.
• http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/macos9osx.html Works but not smooth. 2023-06-25 Paid Macsource a Coffee:-) ![[maelstrom.png]]

History of Video Games

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Video_games_by_year The idea is to play the top games by year over Xmas. Giving the kids a history of computer gaming.

TODO Install https://sdlmame.lngn.net on Intel Mac.

• 1961
  • https://archive.org/details/pdp1_spacewar
  • Two Player!
• 1971
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_Game
  • Runs on PDP-11
  • https://archive.org/details/arcade_galgame (not working for me)
  • https://www.gamesdatabase.org/mame-rom/galgame
  • Attempting to emulate.
  • http://www.computerspacefan.com/Simulation2.htm

1951 - NIM for the NIMROD computer, emulator/simulator available here http://www.goodeveca.net/nimrod/

Unfortunately the program is for BeOS only, i’ve emailed the author and he’s no fan of Windows and will not be porting the program.

1952 - OXO for the EDSAC computer, emulator/simulator available here: http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~edsac/

1958 - Tennis For Two, emulator/simulator available here: http://www.gamersquarter.com/tennisfortwo/ (Thanks to njb12287 for the link)

1959 - Mouse in the Maze & Tic-Tac-Toe for the TX-0 

MESS Emulates the TX-0, I appear to have found the games files (if that’s what you can call them) here http://www.bitsavers.org/bits/MIT/tx-0/mouse/

and here http://www.bitsavers.org/bits/MIT/tx-0/tic-tac-toe/ . However I cannot get them to run on MESS any suggestions ?

1962 - Spacewar! emulator/simulator available here: http://spacewar.oversigma.com/ (Thanks to njb12287 for the link)

1969 - Space Travel - by Ken Thompson 

Really surprised at this, historically this seems a major milestone as it lead to the UNIX system, but I cannot find any emulator/simulator for it anywhere not even a screenshot of the game ? Would have thought this would have been ported to other systems and definitely would expect to be able play a version of it.

Reference

• https://forums.atariage.com/topic/170205-early-game-emulation/
• http://www.computerspacefan.com/Simulation2.htm