Running Arkanoid
Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2018 5:33 am
Hi,
my main goal is to run the original black and white Arkanoid (my adult daughter would like relive her childhood).
So I'm open to other approaches that what I've attempted here.
Ok, so to my problems:
I'm running on MacOs 10.13.6 High Sierra with Mini vMac version minivmac-3.5.8-mc68.
The first problem is that vMac does not find the ROM image if I place it in the same folder as 'Mini vMac.app' file. If I place the ROM image into 'Mini vMac.app/Contents/MacOS/' next to the actual executable 'minivmac' and then double click that executable then the vMac start fine and finds the ROM image. But will still not find the ROM image if I start it from the .app icon. Minor inconvenience but would be nice if it worked as intended.
Next I drag the System 6.0.8 icon on to the emulator window and the Mac boots nicely, so no problem there.
I then drag the file 'Arkanoid_1_00.dsk' in to the emulator and it asks me if I want initialise the disk or eject it. I always eject it.
I then drag the file 'Arkanoid_1_10.dsk' in to the emulator and the disk mounts and I can start Arkanoid by double clicking at its icon. But Arkanoid gives error message about not being able to allocate alternate sound and screen buffers and suggest that I should use System 6.0.2 or later or boot from the Arkanoid 1.10 disk.
I've tried that but of course that fails cause there is no system on that disk.
I go the .dsk images from here:
https://www.macintoshrepository.org/6122-arkanoid
and I've not been able to find an other source.
At this point I'm stuck and help would be appreciated.
my main goal is to run the original black and white Arkanoid (my adult daughter would like relive her childhood).
So I'm open to other approaches that what I've attempted here.
Ok, so to my problems:
I'm running on MacOs 10.13.6 High Sierra with Mini vMac version minivmac-3.5.8-mc68.
The first problem is that vMac does not find the ROM image if I place it in the same folder as 'Mini vMac.app' file. If I place the ROM image into 'Mini vMac.app/Contents/MacOS/' next to the actual executable 'minivmac' and then double click that executable then the vMac start fine and finds the ROM image. But will still not find the ROM image if I start it from the .app icon. Minor inconvenience but would be nice if it worked as intended.
Next I drag the System 6.0.8 icon on to the emulator window and the Mac boots nicely, so no problem there.
I then drag the file 'Arkanoid_1_00.dsk' in to the emulator and it asks me if I want initialise the disk or eject it. I always eject it.
I then drag the file 'Arkanoid_1_10.dsk' in to the emulator and the disk mounts and I can start Arkanoid by double clicking at its icon. But Arkanoid gives error message about not being able to allocate alternate sound and screen buffers and suggest that I should use System 6.0.2 or later or boot from the Arkanoid 1.10 disk.
I've tried that but of course that fails cause there is no system on that disk.
I go the .dsk images from here:
https://www.macintoshrepository.org/6122-arkanoid
and I've not been able to find an other source.
At this point I'm stuck and help would be appreciated.