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[Greystash]

Hi everyone!

I've been busy squirreling away on multiple projects so I haven't been around much recently, but I've just released one of these projects today.

Here's the spiel:
After realising how difficult it was for my kids to get into vintage Mac gaming with having to deal virtual CDs, resolution/bit-depth changes and other quirks, I built an application to make the process more straight forward.

GameBox is a game library that takes some inspiration from Steam. It tracks your time played on individual games, allows you to specify virtual CDs so they automatically mount and unmount, and supports configurable launch and exit scripts.

This takes the complexity out of launching games that span across different eras/screen sizes, so all that's required is selecting a game from the list and clicking Play.

Check it out at the ManticoreSW Website http://manticore.nz/gamebox.

GameBox is designed to run on a G3 at minimum, but it may run on older machines also. All of my older Macs are packed up so I haven't been able to do extensive testing. I have an OSX release planned, there's just a few more bugs to work through.

For any bug reports/feature requests, please submit them at this URL http://manticore.nz/gamebox-tracker.

I hope you find this application useful!

Happy holidays!

[davecom]

This looks awesome. It sounds like exactly what I may need for my 5 year old who games on his own dedicated Mac mini G4. He can have a bit of issues with mounting/unmounting the virtual CDs. I'll definitely try it out. Out of curiosity, what was the development environment and process like?

[Knezzen]

Love the idea and I have the same "problem" with my kids! They find it easy to boot up the Amiga 600 and just load whatever they want to play from WHDLoad, but using any old Mac is where it becomes tricky (for the same reasons you mentioned).

Any way of seeing this for 68k and System 7 in the near future? Would be great to put on a games only 68k Mac and let them game as much as they like

Keep up the good work!

[Bolkonskij]

This is *extremely* cool. Like stated by others, my kids will love this and I think I will too. There is nothing like that on OS 9. Can't wait for the holidays to start and tinker some with it. Thanks for writing new software for our beloved OS! :-)

Oh and I'd be interested in a potential backport to System 7 as well, because that's what I use a lot of the time.