The Design and Implementation of laffer1

It is possible to emulate a 68K Mac on almost any platform now including windows, linux, freebsd and Mac OS X. Last night I finally got two emulators working on my Mac. One is black and white. It supports through system 7, but I'm running 6.08 on it. I actually got Leisure Suit Larry 1 to run on it. LSL was originally written for the Mac. It is the FIRST version of the game. Sound works too! Its something to see lefty's in grayscale with the LSL theme playing. Caryn and I played it for a bit last night.

There is also another emulator that will run a Quadra rom. I got that to boot system 7.5.5 in color without sound. The OSX native port doesn't work right, but i hacked the source code for the windows/unix/linux build to link with apple's X11 port. I got it to run fine except sound. I even got the math co to work. I still need to get networking, sound, and modem access to work. Its successfully emulation the 68030 chip with math co and 8mb ram. The only problem with that one is that X is running in high color so games that check for 256 color won't run! I'll figure out something. That emulator is called Basilisk 2. To get it to run in 10.3, you must run configure as a sparc... then delete the references to architecture in the final make file. finally, change references to gcc and g++ to gcc2 and g++2. It will build.

The other thing that got me is you must specify the path to the ROM image explicitly for it to work right.