I have SimTower which needs classic enviroment to play(not installed 😟. I found the setup disks for another PowerBook which my friend has and hopefully he'll make a copy.
Apart from questionable legality of duplicating discs, this may not work because often the installer discs are model and/or sub-model specific and will refuse to work on another machine model.
Check into getting replacement discs. Call Apple Customer Support 1-800-767-2775 (
http://www.apple.com/contact/phone_contacts.html). Provide the serial number and specifications of the Mac. They may be able to provide a replacement set of discs for a fee. These discs will be for whatever OS was installed on the computer originally, so if you have an upgraded version you will need to obtain the discs some other way.
Is there an emulator to play Classic games?
No, not for your computer. There isn't really a need for it since those who can run Classic can usually get a copy of real Classic onto the computer from the installer discs or some other source. For those who can't there is Sheepshaver, but that is for those who are running Leopard OS. The easiest way to get Classic onto that computer is have a friend copy "System Folder" from a computer that has Classic and put that at the top level of your drive.
Some games do not play well under Classic vs. booting OS9 natively. A lot of games want direct control of the hardware and running Classic through OSX does not provide that functionality.
and what can i use that is free, to play windows games(old ones like Sim Farm, Sim Tower, Sim Island and newer ones like Tony Hawks and Age of Empires II)
Nothing free that I know of. You'd have to look for a used copy of VirtualPC somewhere, and what I said about games not running well under Classic does double or triple for running Windows games under VirtualPC. Apparently VPC is okay for doing slow programs but it is horribly slow for gaming.
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