68k Mac Gaming

[fishy_fiz]

There seems to be a select group of 68k Mac games that are mentioned when it comes to running software under emulation with Shapeshifter/Fusion/Basillisk that doesnt exist for the Amiga. Warcraft1/2, Marathon, Settlers2, Dark Forces, Alone In The Dark 1/2/3 and a few others being the main suspects.
While browsing through the MacGarden website however I was surprised to find there's actually a significant commercial game base for 68k Macs. It received quite a few fmv style game ports from the 3do. It also has a ports of Super Wing Commander (essentially enhanced version of WC1, but using a new engine and some WC3 assets), Rebel Assault 1&2, Actua Soccer (3d texture mapped soccer game) and a whole lot more.

Now firstly Im interested to hear what games people have tried under Mac emulation? Other than the handful of games I mentioned you dont hear a lot about mac gaming on the Amiga.

Secondly it's kind of interesting to see more "advanced" games than what the amiga typically received on a 68k system. While the Amiga did get a lot of good games they were typically, with a handful of exceptions, quite "retro" style, resembling 16bit console games.

Running some of this Mac stuff on my a1200 is quite cool, but also sort of makes me feel shortchanged. Clearly a fast '030 and upwards (especially '040 and '060) with some fast RAM is capable of a lot more than we typically got.

[fishy_fiz]

The Amiga's death was somewhat exaggerated in terms of sales in the 90's. Was a weird situation. Even in '95, Amiga Worms was one of the highest selling titles of the year, even with the advent and buzz around psx,saturn and pentium pcs of the day.

It's like people decided the Amiga was an old platform, ergo it must be near EOL, despite the fact quality amiga stuff sold better than most.

As for hardware, sure base hardware was quite low-spec, but really, other than trend followers (ie. those who got an amiga when it was latest/greatest gizmo and for that reason alone and repeat process for every new gizmo), who stuck to base specs?

Anyway, the reasons are moot, and not really the point  :-)

[fishy_fiz]

Ah, sorry, forgot to get back to you.
Long story short, couldnt track a copy down and couldnt be bothered redoing it. WOS/PUP development is a pita, especially when I no longer have a dev environment setup to compile to those targets.