Does anyone remember the classic Macintosh space shooter Mission Starlight? The one where you go to different planets of the Procyon star system and take out spiffy looking aliens around the planet before going on a ground assault to annihilate the base? I loved that game; I think I played it more than any other classic Mac game in existence.

The only barrier to playing it once more would be the evil 16-Color Nostalgia Killer! It's those games that require your monitor to be set to 16 colors or else it won't even play. Tons of classics lost forever because of the OS's inability to have this kind of backward compatibility. Is there any way around this bug? (No, excuse me, it's a feature, not a bug )

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"You watch the world exploding every single night
Dancing in the sun a new born in the light
Say goodbye to gravity and say goodbye to death
Hello to eternity and live for every breath." -Iron Maiden

Wow that was a cool game but it has been so long. Maybe too long.

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you wait/ all day/ and we just/ waste away/

Well there's 3 options (in order of excessiveness):

Download vMac, a Mac Classic emulator. It will be in black and white, but It might be difficult getting hold of a rom file.

You could create a spare partition on your hard disk and add an old version of the OS to that so you can boot into it. However, you've probably got a G3 or G4 system, which is only supported down to OS 8.6. I don't know the supported monitor depths of this OS, and there is also the problem of getting hold of a copy.

Or you could by an old used 68K Mac. But that will cost you about $100 once you include the monitor.


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No man is an island... unless his name is madagascar!
Life's too short to take webboards seriously!

It most certainly will not! If you can't find someone willing to pay you to take their 68k machine and 12 inch monitor away, you can buy all sorts of old Macs on eBay for under $20 dollars, if you look long enough. I even once got a PPC 7100 for 99 cents! Check these out, to start:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=2044198535 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=2044190060 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=2044177598

etc. Some are better than others, no doubt, but I'm sure any of them'll play 8-bit games without any problems. The whole 68k category is here.