So what are you waiting for? Go download your favorite console emulator and play some games.įor a more in-depth look at gaming and console emulation go here.Īfter check the release notes for PCSX Reloaded I noticed that there has been “preliminary Mac OSX support added”. It is actually fun and good project for any amount of free time you might have. For example, dumping your Playstation’s bios will require a Dex Drive, a memory card, and a PC computer. There are various ways to dump your own bios and you are welcome to google them. Windows is an operating system that powers most computers out there. The bios is the operating system that runs the original console. If you run your emulator you should also have your own bios. Emulation without owning the system and the physical carts is illegal. That doesn’t include all the coding in the background that goes into that emulation but hey, you get the gist. The emulator loads the rom into the program and shazam, you have gaming emulation. A rom is an image or copy of the original cart or disc. Most people new to emulation might not know what a Rom is so, I will explain. You can also grab Richard Bannister’s Commodore 64 emulator Frodo here.Īn emulator is program that is used to “Emulate” or copy the original consoles from your past. Grab this program from the Box File Widget or from the GameBase64 for Mac homepage.

I hope that you will discover long forgotten memories, just like I did when creating this application. In the meantime enjoy this new way of experiencing all the classic Commodore 64 games, it’s like a blast from the past. I already have many ideas of how to take this even further, so stay tuned for future developments. After many years of neglect, there finally is a real GameBase64 front-end for the Mac. This is the first version of GameBase64 Browser for Mac.

Let’s see what Andreas Varga, the creator of this program, had to say about this new release. GameBase64 allows you to drag and drop a folder full of your Commodore 64 roms and the program will pull up information and screen shots for all your games. This is the very first version of this program for the Mac. GameBase64 is a database program for your favorite Commodore 64 emulator.

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