#Quickdraw x wing mac os x
#Quickdraw x wing mac os
#Quickdraw x wing drivers
#Quickdraw x wing full

But my guess is that this simplicity actually helps the QuickDraw programs, at least in the emulators, and that the modern graphics drivers running natively on a modern computer don't really care much about such an old API. There is no graphics acceleration such as OpenGL support. Parallels Desktop for Mac, now version 9, has very simplistic graphics drivers for OS X guests.

Upon unchecking 'Enable QuickDraw Acceleration' in SheepShaver's preferences, this would no longer occur, but the in-flight lag would persist. When running SheepShaver in native OS X (meaning not in a VM), after completing a mission in X-Wing, the game would freeze SheepShaver. I think herecomethej2000 is right about the slow emulation being a QuickDraw problem. The instructions discuss burning a physical disc, but you can simply make and use a disc image using a program such as ImgBurn, which is free. But in case anyone's interested in the Windows 95 remakes, the way to run them in modern 64-bit Windows is to follow the instructions for making a modified installation disc (image) at. After all, the emulation is perfect, it's just the in game speed that is off.įirst off, you're right about the Mac versions being the best. I just get the feeling that SheepShaver/Basilisk II are so close from emulating this perfectly. Now all that remains is to attempt to run an OS X VM and Sheepshaver on top of that and see what happens.

#Quickdraw x wing mac os

I was using the latest build of SheepShaver and the latest build of Basilisk II (as of today) and Mac OS 8.6 and System 7.5.3 respectively. It's like its the same emulator - of course it isn't - but it feels like it. So, I thought that I'd try Basilisk II, after all this game works fine on the 68k.Īfter installing Basilisk II and installing the game, I start and what I found really curious, is that it plays and feels *exactly* like in SheepShaver. If one presses escape to enter the menu, that's always super responsive. The mouse in game is a bit sluggish, but all animations and sounds work 100%. For example cutscenes (which I remember were really hard on my 040 Performa back in the day) play smooth as butter. The music plays on normal speed, the game is responsive outside gameplay. I assume Sheepshaver is a single core program, so it is only utilizing one core of eight, but it seems to be using that core 90% to 95% when running X-Wing. I'm using a 4.2GHz AMD 8350, 16GB RAM and Windows 8.1 I have a decent enough machine to emulate on and SheepShaver runs very fast except of course when running X-Wing. So, I was very motivated to get it to work. The DOS version of TIE Fighter is more or less identical to X-Wing on the Mac, and the later re-releases for Windows 95 were without the iMuse sound system and lost so much of the feel of these gems. Lucasarts never made the DOS version look so good, which ran in 320x200 and is only for the DOS nostalgic. X-Wing for the Mac is the definitive version of X-Wing which ran in 640x480. I am really interested in the possibility mentioned in the OP, but I'm still working on getting a VM set up for that purpose. I was really interested in getting X-Wing to work on a modern PC, and of course quite disillusioned when I saw that there doesn't seem to be any way to do that. It would be nice if we could figure out what's really going on, as other programs could also experience this sort of lag. So the lag is not due to SheepShaver inherently. The host and the VM's respective SheepShavers are using the exact same settings (both using JIT compiler, but not the 'experimental' 68k one).

#Quickdraw x wing full

Running SheepShaver in that VM, both X-Wing and TIE Fighter run at full speed! My hunch is that there's something about the virtual CPU, not the graphics, that is somehow crunching the numbers differently, something to do with the JIT compiling. The computer is a mid-2012 15-inch MacBook Pro (non-Retina display) with a Core i7 running 10.8.2 (Mountain Lion).

#Quickdraw x wing mac os x

I was experimenting with SheepShaver in a Parallels Desktop 8 virtual machine (VM) running Mac OS X 10.7.5 (Lion). I have experienced this with X-Wing and TIE Fighter in SheepShaver, but I have discovered the following, which makes it run at full speed. According to this compatibility sheet, the game Star Wars: X-Wing runs slowly in SheepShaver and Basilisk II.