![]() Then opening a Terminal window and dragging “mame64” to it, pressing enter and I get a brief black screen as if emulater is opening and quicly shuts down giving me the error notice in the Terminal window. I only moved the unzipped MAME folder to Applications, as instructed. This is enough to get you up and running, and there are lots of resources on the web for using MAME beyond the basics. Remember to setup Input Options (General) or per game, to make sure you can use your chosen controller. You can use your mouse or cursor keys to navigate the menus once launched, and press TAB in-game to bring up the options screen. Put unzipped game ROMs in the roms folder within the mame folder, and unzipped samples in the samples folder. I found this after I’d been running MAME from the command line for a while (if you want to do it this way, the easiest is to open a Terminal window, drag the mame64 icon to it, and press enter). It’s just a double-clickable application that will launch MAME. ![]() Unzip it, and put it in your new MAME folder. Next, to make things easy, download a useful little application called M64, here. Once that’s done, unzip the MAME release you downloaded, and copy it to your Applications folder. Open the DMG, and copy the amework to /Library/FrameworksĪlternatively, you can install it in /Library/Frameworks if your access privileges are not high enough. You can download the latest version here.īefore you try and use it, though, you need to install the SDL2 framework, download it here. Thankfully, r0ni works really hard at maintaining a version of MAME that runs natively on OS X (via Command Line, it has no windowed GUI). It works great for most games, but you need to compile your own binary to get sample support for games like Zaxxon, and you can’t get access to the DIP switch settings for games, or advanced configurations. Quit MAME and then restart it without the Legacy Recovery CD-ROM mounted.The free OpenEmu is great for running all sorts of emulators on your Mac with a beautiful frontend, and I heartily recommend it for consoles and computers, but its MAME support is classed as ‘experimental’ – indeed, you need to download a separate build to get MAME supported at all. Once the installer is done, you should see this success:Ĭhoose "Quit", and then choose "Shut Down" from the "Special" menu to cleanly shut down the system: Make sure it's "Macintosh Family system software" or "System Software for all Macs" or something like that (the phrasing differs per System version) to ensure the resulting hard disk can boot on any supported Mac. This will look different depending on the version you pick, my screenshots here are for System 7.1.1.Ĭlick Ok to get to the main installer screen (for some versions you may go directly here): ![]() After a few moments the installer will launch. (If you are unsure what versions will work on a particular model, double-click the "System Software by CPU" folder and then navigate to the model you'd like to run).ĭouble-click the "Net Install.scr" file to launch Disk Copy and mount all of the installation disk images.Ĭlick "Agree". I chose System 7.1.1 here as a good choice - it's reasonably up-to-date, but doesn't use a ton of RAM like 7.5, and runs all the way back to the Macintosh Plus. Select File -> Quit to exit Drive Setup, and close the "Formatting Software" and "Disk Utilities" windows.ĭouble-click the "Mac OS" folder and then the folder for the System version you wish to install. When this warning comes up, you can pick "Custom Setup." if you know what you're doing and want to partition the hard disk in some special way, or just click "Initialize" to get a single partition the full size of the disk: The system will start up and you'll see a Finder desktop like this:Īnd then double-click "Disk Utilities" and then "Formatting Software":Ĭlick your hard disk image, which will show as "" and then click the "Initialize." button: Second, start MAME with the hard disk image you just created and the Legacy Recovery CD-ROM mounted on the Mac IIci driver: mame maciici -ramsize 8M -hard1 myhdd.chd -cdrom "Apple Legacy Recovery Oct 1999.iso" (use myhdd.hdv instead if you chose that route to create the image). If you're on Linux, BSD, or modern macOS, you can easily create a non-CHD raw image with dd if=/dev/zero of=myhdd.hdv bs=1000000 count=500. I'll give instructions for one that's around 500 MB, but you can go up to at least 1 GB without MacOS getting upset.įor an uncompressed CHD, enter chdman createhd -c none -chs 1023,63,16 -o myhdd.chd. ![]() scr scripts doesn't work.įirst, create a hard disk image. WARNING: Internet Archive has a version of the CD which does not work properly - it boots, but the file association with the. Prereqs: the Apple Legacy Recovery CD-ROM, which you can get from Macintosh Garden. Mac OS from scratch, on MAME 0.232+ (or a recent Git pull). ![]()
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