I’ve been playing around a little bit with the MacOS X port of Virtual Box, and it looks really promising. Speed-wise it runs quite OK, I couldn’t tell wether or not it’s on par with VMWare Fusion. But I’ve had small problems with the keyboard (couldn’t get the alt and command keys to work right) and the “desktop resolution resizing” when in windowed mode.
Following these instrucions, I’ve made a small shell-script that converts a .vmdk disk image file from VMWare to a .vdi one for Virtual Box. It should detect the OS (Mac or Linux) and warn you in case you miss some of the dependencies (QEMU ’s qemu-img and Virtual Box’s vditool). It can be downloaded here:
I’ve found a web with a list of MacOS X games and what hardware they support: if only PowerPC binaries are available (and then, how they perform under Rosetta), or if Intel or Universal Binaries have been released:
Besides, if you have problems while applying one of those patches to avoid the burden of inserting the CD everytime you want to play ;-) (the patch just quits and an error window pops up), you can fix it this way:
copy the patch to your hard drive
right click (or ctrl. left click) -> Show package’s contents
While looking for an Amstrad CPC emulator for MacOS X, I’ve stumbled upon the following page with lots of vintage computer and console emulators for OS X:
MacOS X comes with a VNC server, but it has problems: you can’t access it depending on what client version you’re using, and it seems to work only on full-quality mode (32bit color?), so it’s slow like hell.
An alternative is installing the marvelous Vine Server,which on its 3.0 release brings full client/server clipboard integration and works like a charm with any Linux VNC client, fast and without problems.
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