Mac OS 9 game recommendations

[TSE]

Have a decked out G3 Pismo running OS 9 - do you guys have any fun Mac OS 9 games I could play? I have every single MacAddict's "The Disc" and MacWorld gaming discs from about 1997 - 2001, those demos are really fun but as you can imagine it takes a long time sifting through a lot of the low-budget games that were developed by one guy in his basement.

Thanks!

 

[KawaiiAurora]

Return To Castle Wolfenstein, The Sims 1 and Silver (RPG game) are all pretty good games I've played

 

[z970]

Nanosaur and Bugdom are musts.

 

[Project Alice]

Unreal Tournament and UT99
Star Wars Dark forces
StarCraft
Star Wars Galactic battlegrounds (AoEII engine)
Age of empires I and II

I have all of these and all have played well on my Pismo and are OS 9 compatible. If you install Mac OS X that opens up more options, though I know Mac OS 9 has "more games" most of the games I personally enjoy are OS X only.

 

[TSE]

Unreal Tournament and UT99
Star Wars Dark forces
StarCraft
Star Wars Galactic battlegrounds (AoEII engine)
Age of empires I and II

I have all of these and all have played well on my Pismo and are OS 9 compatible. If you install Mac OS X that opens up more options, though I know Mac OS 9 has "more games" most of the games I personally enjoy are OS X only.

Any good RPGs that you know?

Return To Castle Wolfenstein, The Sims 1 and Silver (RPG game) are all pretty good games I've played

I'll check out Silver.

 

[bobesch]

Some of my favorites ...
StarCraft: http://macintoshgarden.org/games/starcraft-and-classic-macos
Command&Conquer: http://macintoshgarden.org/games/command-conquer
Tropico and sequel: http://macintoshgarden.org/games/tropico http://macintoshgarden.org/games/tropico-mucho-macho
Fallout: http://macintoshgarden.org/games/fallout-mac-os-7-9

One could spend more hours at Macintosh Garden to look for the gems, download, unzip and intall than actually spend time for playing ...

and RPGs: http://macintoshgarden.org/games/rpg

 

[Slix]

I have a big list of games here that I appreciate. But definitely agree with @z970mp; all the Pangea games are musts!

 

[necreation]

Here's my list for OS9

• Fallout 1
• Fallout 2
• Diablo 1
• Diablo 2
• Startcraft 2
• Warcraft 2
• Deus Ex
• Star Wars : Galactic Battlefront
• Age of Empires 2
• Monkey Island
• Quake III
• Unreal Tournament
• Doom

There are many more that I hasn't try yet. Still trying to test more until I make my full list.

 

[Project Alice]

Any good RPGs that you know?




I'll check out Silver.

Diablo I and II
Fallout I and II - These will work on a Pismo, but Fallout II wasn't ported to Mac until later so it require OS X.

I'd follow the above advice and spend some time on the Macintosh Garden.

 

[mikzn]

My favorite OS9 game was - Apeiron

Spent many an hour trying to beat my high score - lol

 

[AphoticD]

As well as the games mentioned, I remember sinking hours into Escape Velocity and others from Ambrosia Software like Apeiron, Maelstrom and Ferazels Wand. Also Snood and Dirt Bike 3D.

There were many other not yet mentioned classics which come to mind;

• Oni, Halo, Marathon and the Myth series from Bungie
• The Myst and Riven series
• Broken Sword, Day of the Tentacle and other ScummVM compatible games like Monkey Island.
  
• MDK, Duke Nukem 3D and Shadow Warrior, Unreal (original), Ultimate DOOM
  
• Terminal Velocity, A-10 Cuba and F/A-18 Korea.
• Tomb Raider I and II
• Driver (aka You are the Wheelman)
  
• The Carmageddon series probably absorbed more hours during my adolescence than I would like to admit...

That should keep you busy a while

 

[AphoticD]

Have a decked out G3 Pismo running OS 9 - do you guys have any fun Mac OS 9 games I could play? I have every single MacAddict's "The Disc" and MacWorld gaming discs from about 1997 - 2001

Speaking of MacAddict, every issue has been meticulously scanned and uploaded to the internet archive;
https://archive.org/details/macaddict

Along with the cover discs;
https://archive.org/details/macaddict_coverdiscs?sort=titleSorter

I had collected nearly every issue of this magazine back in the day.

those demos are really fun but as you can imagine it takes a long time sifting through a lot of the low-budget games that were developed by one guy in his basement.

I'd give kudos to those low budget developers, building their games solo in the basement. Ultimately they stood side my side with big games from the major publishers... To put things into perspective, Temple Run was developed by a husband and wife team and well, that did pretty well

 

[WhoNet]

Total Annihilation is my best game for MacOS9

 

[z970]

The Myst and Riven series

Yes.

If the Pangea games are musts, the Myst games are requirements. They're all available on Macintosh Garden.

Just make sure you have a few hours to kill before jumping into one...

 

[bunnspecial]

I will throw out a suggestion that while there's no harm in trying, you will likely find heavy 3D games to be a somewhat less than satisfactory experience on a Pismo. That's not to mean that there's nothing out there-quite the contrary as there are tons of great games that are a lot of fun and a Pismo is more than enough to run.

I'd just avoid things like RTCW, Doom, and Quake III. I have a couple of computers I've built specifically for games like that-I start with a G4 tower, max the ram, add in at least a moderate CPU upgrade if it's not over ~1ghz, and the preferably put in a Geforce 4Ti, or if not that the best OS 9 card I can fit in the computer.

I'll also throw in a mention of an old favorite of mine that will play nicely on any "G" era Mac running OS 9-Titanic:Adventure Out of Time. There's also The 7th Guest if you want more of a problem solving/puzzle game.

 

[matO_opp_ITA]

Here's my list for OS9

• Fallout 1
• Fallout 2
• Diablo 1
• Diablo 2
• Startcraft 2
• Warcraft 2
• Deus Ex
• Star Wars : Galactic Battlefront
• Age of Empires 2
• Monkey Island
• Quake III
• Unreal Tournament
• Doom

There are many more that I hasn't try yet. Still trying to test more until I make my full list.

Hi, you know where to get the updaters of Quake III for OS9?

 

[vorob]

Guys! I take this opportunity to ask about os9 emulation on iBook g4 (OS X tiger). Is it good? Is there any known limitations or issues? Or I can use it to play classic games and it will be same experimental as I was on real os9 machine? Thanks.



I tried doom and prince of Persian and noticed that games are squeezed. Common problem of mode 13h games. Any way to stretch them?

 

[Amethyst1]

Guys! I take this opportunity to ask about os9 emulation on iBook g4 (OS X tiger). Is it good? Is there any known limitations or issues? Or I can use it to play classic games and it will be same experimental as I was on real os9 machine? Thanks.

The Classic environment in Panther and Tiger kinda sucks for playing games. Classic in Jaguar is better. "Real" OS 9 is best.

I tried doom and prince of Persian and noticed that games are squeezed. Common problem of mode 13h games. Any way to stretch them?

The Mac version of Prince of Persia runs at 640×400.

 

[matO_opp_ITA]

Guys! I take this opportunity to ask about os9 emulation on iBook g4 (OS X tiger). Is it good? Is there any known limitations or issues? Or I can use it to play classic games and it will be same experimental as I was on real os9 machine? Thanks.



I tried doom and prince of Persian and noticed that games are squeezed. Common problem of mode 13h games. Any way to stretch them?

You could try, but remember that there’s no 3D and OpenGL accelerations

 

[Amethyst1]

Guys! I take this opportunity to ask about os9 emulation on iBook g4 (OS X tiger)

Forgot to say you can actually run OS 9 natively on an iBook G4. Unless it’s the last (1.33/1.42 GHz) model, you even have graphics acceleration. Check out macos9lives.com.

 

[vorob]

It’s exactly last gen with 1.33 and 9550.

 

[vorob]

You could try, but remember that there’s no 3D and OpenGL accelerations

Hmm, I’ve tried unreal, it was definitely release for os8 or so, and it was working right, with acceleration. Same for unreal tournament.

 

[repairedCheese]

Guys! I take this opportunity to ask about os9 emulation on iBook g4 (OS X tiger). Is it good? Is there any known limitations or issues? Or I can use it to play classic games and it will be same experimental as I was on real os9 machine? Thanks.



I tried doom and prince of Persian and noticed that games are squeezed. Common problem of mode 13h games. Any way to stretch them?

At the end of the day, these games were meant to run and much, much lower resolutions, so if you want to "stretch" them, you're going to want to run your system at 640x480. You might be able to do better with Doom, as there are source ports everywhere, but the original Mac version got a special 640x400 mode which was a pretty big upgrade from what dos was running it at.

Wish I could find a tool that set resolutions and screen color when I started a game, because such a thing would be rather helpful. But you can always do it manually.

 

[vorob]

That’s exactly what I’m talking about Doom was originally in 320x200, mode 13h resolution. Despite it’s “widescreen” it should be stretched to 4:3 aspect ration. Same for 640x400. That was easily done on crt but sadly on iBook it runs with black bars on top and bottom.

Source ports is a thing, but I’m looking for authentic experience

 

[repairedCheese]

That’s exactly what I’m talking about Doom was originally in 320x200, mode 13h resolution. Despite it’s “widescreen” it should be stretched to 4:3 aspect ration. Same for 640x400. That was easily done on crt but sadly on iBook it runs with black bars on top and bottom.

Source ports is a thing, but I’m looking for authentic experience

Well, that's the thing. I've never had a Mac laptop from that era, but the black bars were often part of that authentic experience of the era in non-macs. If the computer can't do any kind of resolution scaling, then that's what you get.

Sometimes the authentic experience is worse.

That said, if you install a video driver for what that laptop has in it, or really just something close, you might be able to get some scaling from an ati control panel, or something like that. But, no promises.