-- Posted by Amor Fati on 1:07 pm on April 17, 2001 Foe, you told me a couple of weeks or so ago, before the other forum got hacked, about some sites where I could download games, some trackers to find servers, etc. Could you please post them again? The one for PCs (Edited by Amor Fati at 1:08 pm on April 17, 2001) -- Posted by JuggleFoe on 1:21 pm on April 17, 2001 well, for pc users, there's a program called hotline that you can download at http://www.bigredh.com , and you can find tracker numbers at http://www.tracker-tracker.com . you can find a bunch of stuff there. some web sites have some decent stuff, too... http://www.freeroms.com http://www.emusanet.com http://emu.kulichki.net/indexr.html i'm not sure, but i think you can download pc emulators as well as roms at all three of those sites. hope that helps, man! (Edited by JuggleFoe at 2:22 pm on April 17, 2001) -- Posted by Amor Fati on 5:00 am on April 18, 2001 Thanks, I'll look into that. -- Posted by JuggleFoe on 5:45 am on April 18, 2001 yeah, do. emulation rocks, in my opinion. -- Posted by Robb Force on 10:29 pm on April 18, 2001 Hey Amor, you should check out MacMAME if you haven't already. And get ahold of some capcom roms, it's some of the smoothest emulation I've seen. The sound is clear and not choppy also. GeoMAME is also really good if all you want to do is play NeoGeo games. It's a slimmed down version of MacMAME 'cause all it plays is the Neo titles. The most current version makes use of your virtual memory so the really large games can load. Before that you had to have boatloads of RAM to load anything over 20 megs. -- Posted by Amor Fati on 3:14 am on April 19, 2001 OK, I'm new to this, but everytime I try to download something from what I find on that tracker site it says that it will be done with a pitbull acount, which is an application for mac only... -- Posted by JuggleFoe on 8:56 am on April 19, 2001 hmm? download from the tracker site? uhm... the way it works on a mac, you just copy the tracker number, paste it into your app (hotline or carracho) and then reload your tracker window. then you get a list of servers. from there, it's entirely just negotiating with server admins to get access to their files... -- Posted by Robb Force on 12:05 am on April 20, 2001 Oh, well if your on a pc, then you'll want to get MAME, which you can download for free, for arcade games. Nearly all emulators are free actually. snes 9x can be downloaded for the snes games too. -- Posted by Amor Fati on 3:11 pm on April 21, 2001 I downloaded a game for Armstad PC system (never heard of it) and then downloaded and emulator for it, which can see .dsk files, and then what? I have no fucking idea how these emulators work. -- Posted by JuggleFoe on 4:09 pm on April 21, 2001 :shrug: no idea. some emulators work differently than others. i stick to videogame console emulation, where you use the emulator like the console, and load the roms like cartridges... -- Posted by Robb Force on 5:30 pm on April 21, 2001 Most emulators load a particular type of file. NeoGeo Pocket uses *.ngp or*.ngc, Snes uses *.smc, VGameboy *.gb If that armstad PC emulator is suppossed to load .dsk files then uncompress that game and do File, Open in the emulator, select the .dsk file, and click ok or open. That's all there really is to it. The documentation that came with the emulator (assuming it came with docs) will tell you more... -- Posted by Amor Fati on 1:43 am on April 22, 2001 That's what I thought, but this one is a weird emulator. I mean it says at File "Insert disk in drive A", meaning loading .dsk file, and that's that. No open, no nothing, just MS Dos like interface where I can write commands. What commands? No documentation helps. -- Posted by JuggleFoe on 10:32 am on April 22, 2001 strange indeed. maybe it'll actually read disks, and you have to put that .dsk information onto one? like, sort of how you can use the connectix playstation emulator to read burned copies of playstation games. ehm... weird. check out this links for some help: http://tacgr.emuunlim.com/ -- Posted by Amor Fati on 11:04 am on April 22, 2001 Fanks. Got one for windows. -- Posted by Amor Fati on 11:15 am on April 22, 2001 It's still weird. It's the same interface, no help. I said "load" and the name of the game and it said ready and then nothing.. -- Posted by JuggleFoe on 4:00 pm on April 22, 2001 that link above wasn't any help? dagnabbit... -- Posted by Amor Fati on 8:03 am on April 23, 2001 I did it, thanks Foe, I didn''t look on the help page, cause it was only two pages long but I found what to do. Thanks. -- Posted by Glacialis on 5:26 pm on April 23, 2001 Year s ago I had an Amiga emulator that did quite the same thing. It just allowed you to run Amiga progs in the same way than on Amiga itselff. You just had to convert Amiga disks to work on PC drives. It was wicked. :cheesy: -- Posted by Robb Force on 9:07 pm on April 23, 2001 Years and years ago, I used to own an Amiga. :) Me and my brother started with the Commodore line of computers, back with the Vic 20. Remember those? I think I was only 10 years old then, back in '84-'85. Afterwards, my parents upgraded to the Amiga 1000, also by Commodore, and it was sweet. One of the most sophisticated computers of it's time. The graphics were great, thousands of colors, while PCs were still at VGA and 256 colors. A true graphical operating system. It even had soundblaster quality sound without having to buy a sound card. I'm probably embellishing, but it was an awesome system while it lasted. :sad2: -- Posted by Glacialis on 2:16 pm on April 24, 2001 Well, I kinda wasn't in contact with computers before '87. That's when I went to school and got a friend who's big bro had a C-64 and we got to play with it every now and then. Games like Spy hunter and Ghost busters... :) When I made first contact with PCs in '89, they were just starting to become a viable option, so I don't think you're blemishing too much.