Even if I do get it installed I'm not sure it will run any smoother than DOSBox.Īnyone else out there had any luck with this? Thanks. Q Emulator is a tool developed for Mac with the purpose of emulating different versions of other operating systems like Windows (from the 95 version to Windows. And now, for the life of me, I cannot figure out how to get X-Com installed on it. I have to admit that my DOS skillz are sorely lacking these days (took me forever to figure out it was TYPE and not EDIT that allowed me to look at a doc), but I finally got it booted up in safemode. So, I downloaded the Q emulator and attempted to install FreeDOS.

On the same map, I can have tons of soldiers on the base floor with few slowdown problems, but as soon as I click up to the third level everything grinds to a halt. The Battlescape works well enough, until lots of smoke appears OR (and this is odd) I reach the 2nd or 3rd floor of a UFO. The front-end of QEMU, which is the graphical front-end Q, can also be used for this.

Though with the same code, this emulator is easier to use and has great technical support. It runs in universal binary and available for PowerPC and Intel Mac users. On the Geoscape, any zooming is painfully slow, and when I intercept airborne UFO's I have to wait a good 10 seconds before the intercept box is brought up. iEmulator - This is an open source emulator of PC and makes use of the same code as QEMU.

With Basilisk II, one can boot Mac OS versions 7.x. I max out at 4500 CPU cycles and use a frameskip of 3. Basilisk II is an open source emulator of 68xxx-based Macintosh computers for Windows, OS X and Linux. 65 to run X-Com, but my Mac Powerbook (1.0Ghz, 768 Ram, OS 10.3.9) handles it sluggishly at times.

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