Backward compatability for Avalon Hill games?

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Backward compatability for Avalon Hill games?

I'm dying to get some old Avalon Hill computer games. I used to play them on boards with dice and I've never found any modern computer games that have the same war simulation feel. Not shoot em up bang bang games but games where you have to think like a general and consider tactics that simulate real battlefields and weapons. So as a side note if anyone knows of other computer games like Avalon Hill please let me know.

Most of the Avalon Hill games I've found don't even run on modern Windows let alone on Macs but I found one (Stalingrad) that works on Mac V7. Any chance that 10.6.4 would be compatible or is there any fairly easy way I could make it work?

iMac4,1, Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Sep 12, 2010 12:12 PM

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Sep 12, 2010 12:21 PM in response to JGatsby

Hi JGatsby;

If as your profile says you are running Snow Leopard then your hardware is Intel and to run anything prior to OS X you must have a PowerPC Mac instead. So it isn't going to be easy to do what you want.

There is a hack called Sheep Shaver that claims to be able to run some of the older software. It is not a simple hack to install.

Generally the recommendation is to get older hardware that is capable of running the older version of Mac OS required.

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AJ

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Sep 12, 2010 12:47 PM in response to JGatsby

Concur on with Allan on all counts, except perhaps install. Thats easy - the configuration is the pain 🙂

As an aside, the mentioned program is technically unmentionable in this forum - mods tend to delete references to it and send the poster a nastygram (been there, done that).

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JGatsby Author

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Sep 12, 2010 7:35 PM in response to JGatsby

Thanks. FYI, my processor is a 2Ghz Intel Core Duo. So yes an Intel.

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JGatsby Author

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Sep 12, 2010 7:38 PM in response to AJ

Thanks. I hate that you can't mention some programs. How lame, I expect better from this forum, I mean leave a note saying "use at your own risk" but don't censor. Anyway thanks for the info, I will look up the unmentionable program on the web.

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JGatsby Author

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Sep 13, 2010 12:12 PM in response to Allan Eckert

I looked at the Emulator. I'm too old to start dealing with command line UI's again 😟 so I guess I'll give up. Thanks for the prompt and accurate info I'm marking as solved because the question was answered even though I can't do what I wanted.

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