Help a guy make his dad happy with Mac SE emulator

[AndyMan_DK]

Long story short: My dad used to own a Macintosh SE back in the day and, while not a gamer as such, he had a lot of fun with a few titles.

Fast-forward to this Christmas, where I spent quite a bit of time preparing a USB with (I thought) all he needed to emulate said games on his current iMac: the games, an unpacker and an emulator.

Yeah, right.

After spending the better part of Christmas Day trying to get the thing to work, I had to give up. Even downloaded two other emulators, but none of them got any results. I'm usually a PC kinda guy, so I have no idea what I did wrong - I just could't get anthing to play.

I'd still *really* love to surprise my dad with some games from his youth, and I've realised that I need help from actual pros in this regard.

The games I'd most like to get to work are (all on Macintosh SE):

* Crystal Quest
* Cannon Fodder
* Let's Get Tanked
* Bug Hunt
* Lode Runner
* Scarab of Ra
* Shufflepuck
* Spectre (as .BIN)
* StuntCopter
* Centipede
* Hot Air Balloon
* Dubbelmoral
* Bird Race

I have all of the above as .SIT files (which should work, although they're currently sitting on my PC hard drive), and my dad's current Mac is a:

iMac (Retina 4K from 2017)
3 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i5)
16 GB DDR4
Radeon Pro 555 2 GB

Is there any chance at all that someone could take me by the hand and tell/show me *exactly* what I need to do, to get the above games running on my dad's Mac?

As I said, I simply don't have the know-how to make it happen myself, so I would hugely appreciate any help (and so will my dad, I promise you).

Regards

Andreas

 

[hardon]

Have you tried this?

The Official SheepShaver Home Page

Home page of the SheepShaver Macintosh emulator

sheepshaver.cebix.net

 

[BrianBaughn]

The SE ran macOS versions 3.3-7.5.1, 7.5.3-7.5.5 according to everymac.com:

Macintosh SE Specs: EveryMac.com

Technical specifications for the Macintosh SE. Dates sold, processor type, memory info, hard drive details, price and more.

everymac.com

I wouldn't know how to find out what macOS those games require.

You might look into this page:

Basilisk II: Classic Mac Emulator – Garrett Fuller

 

[za9ra22]

Honestly, I'd have a look on eBay for something like an actual Mac from the day. Probably not an SE perhaps, but there are LC and Performa models that aren't quite so collectible and - for me at least - would be way more the thing than emulation, which doesn't really ever seem so good to me.

 

[Bruninho]

Go for SheepShaver or Mini vMac. Both are quite reliable. You'll find much more documentation on e-maculation forums. There is also a Mini vMac version for iOS somewhere.

 

[bobesch]

I personally think Mini vMac is the easier way to provide someone with and "instant" 68k-emulator.
(Did this for an old lady, who gifted me her old Macintosh and put her files onto a small mini-vMac with runtimes for PPC, OSX and Windows)
There's even an option for color-display and a lot of stuff for 68k machines on Macintoshgarden.
The only tricky thing is, how to open your .sit-files within the mini-vMac: you have to create an virtual floppy and mount it on PPC-OSX-Mac (intel-OSX didn 't worked for me for this purpose) or os9. Then open the floppy within the mini-vMac by just drag&drop the floppy-file onto the mini-vMac window. (The virtual floppy needs to be renamed temporarily, when it is to be mounted within PPC-OSX. Ha, I allway need to relearn the process, whenever I tinker with the mini-vMac.
You can find virtual-disks of any size here: "Blanks" at the "Extras" section of gryphel.com
You may send me a PN and I can send you that "instant" color-version ... (it's based on the template from gryphel.com)