Lemmings game

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Lemmings game

I have bought a second hand copy of the Lemmings Game for macs circa 1992 and when I received it - it was a set of three floppy discs. I bought this for my wife who owns an i book G4 which uses the mac os x 10.4 operating system. It does not have a floppy disc drive.

My question is if I bought an external floppy disc drive could I run this game on the computer operating system.

Will appreciate it if someone can answer this question. My wife really enjoyed the game years ago and it was a silly christmas stocking filler!

ibook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Posted on Dec 2, 2006 3:10 AM

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Answer 1

Dec 2, 2006 4:55 AM in response to julian4651

As long as you run Classic on that Mac, that game should work. No guarantees. The only way to know for sure is to try it and see. Have you tried googling for something like "Mac OS X lemmings game" to see if a more modern version is available? If not, its worth a try.

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a brody

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Dec 2, 2006 4:56 AM in response to julian4651

Welcome to Apple Discussions!

It might work under the Classic environment. The iBook G4 unfortunately can't boot into Mac OS 9 directly, so if any part of the game relies on old drivers, it may not work. The Classic environment may not be loaded by default on the iBook G4, but can be using the original restore disks, as my FAQ explains:

http://www.macmaps.com/macosxnative.html

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mrtotes

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Dec 2, 2006 5:04 AM in response to julian4651

Hello and Welcome to Apple Discussions.

Unfortunately even Mac software back in those days was coded for 68k processors. Since that time Macs had the RISC PowerPC processors introduced (which the G4 falls into) so even under Classic/Mac OS 9 it will not work.

EDIT: Okay having read the other responces as I have the 3 Lemmings games from that era and a USB floppy drive I'll try and find the disks to give it a go later this week and post back...

mrtotes

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a brody

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Dec 2, 2006 5:03 AM in response to julian4651

Also note, if the floppy disks are 800k DS/DD instead of the 1.4 MB DS/HD they won't work with a USB floppy drive and need to be loaded from another Mac with a built-in floppy drive that has an ethernet connection or internet connect to bring over to the newer Mac. An ethernet connection would be possible, if the older Mac has at least system 9, or a way to broadcast an IP address over ethernet. AFP without TCP/IP doesn't appear to work too well with Mac OS X.

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mrtotes

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Dec 7, 2006 4:49 AM in response to a brody

Yep, you're right that was my stumbling block. I found the disks and manual (for the access codes) and got Classic loaded but it was a no go; the USB FDD wouldn't read them.

The only way I could go any further is to dig out the old Performa 6400 with it's ethernet card, install OS 9 and then transfer it. Even then given that it was coded for 68k processors means I don't think it'll work so I'm afraid I'm out.

sorry...

mrtotes

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a brody

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Dec 7, 2006 9:07 AM in response to mrtotes

68k processor coding shouldn't affect the ability to run on a G4. However, if it was coded to only work with 24 bit addressing that's a bigger stumbling block. About the only pre-1995 application I can't run is Ashton/Tate then Borland's Full Impact because once you set System 7 to 32 bit addressing, it crashes with a Type 1 error every time.

Surprisingly, the 1988 Cricket Graph works in Classic just fine, and so does MacDraw II and Macpaint 1.0.

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Dec 7, 2006 9:28 AM in response to julian4651

When you run old games in classic, some hardware control functions cannot be made. Sometimes if you preset the screen resolution to 640x480 the game will work.

 Cheers, Tom

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a brody

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Dec 7, 2006 10:10 AM in response to Texas Mac Man

Good point. And there is the other issue that some higher end graphics cards will baulk at 640 x 480 or lesser resolutions being forced on them. That's what happened to my iMac G4 when Realplayer for Mac OS 9 wanted that resolution going into fullscreen mode. Next thing I knew, I was getting artifacts on my screen, and my hardware test suddenly detected a problem with the graphics chip. If this is a program which forces resolutions, I would not use it in Classic.

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a brody

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Dec 8, 2006 7:37 PM in response to julian4651

Lemmings was made for DOS too:

http://www.kallex.de/lemmings/

You might want to see about getting one of the alternative versions and running it in Parallels.

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Answer 10

Dec 8, 2006 11:42 PM in response to julian4651

Follow this link to download lemmings for mac: http://mac.the-underdogs.info/download.php?id=79&loc=0
This way you don't need to worry about any floppy discs. You will need stuffit expander to open it. It's abandonware so it's free and legal. It works fine in classic mode on my G3 iBook.

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a brody

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Dec 9, 2006 8:49 AM in response to Michael Adam

http://www.allume.com/ is where you can get Stuffit Expander for Mac OS X.

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