Don't bitch at me for suggesting this but why not use a port for Doom such as Jdoom or the SDL version of Marathon? IIRC, the SDL ver of Marathon even has updated graphics and fixes.

By SDL version of Marathon do you mean Aleph One? I tried it last week and it was pretty terrible. The gameplay and graphics are okay, but the fadeouts are wacked and you can't return to your game in progress from the menu (very annoying when trying to make minor mouse sensitivity or keyboard control adjustments!). Music didn't seem to be working either (is there any?)

The music can be downloaded seperately: http://orbitalarm.bungie.org/downloads/alephone.html

Haven't tested Marathon in a long time tho so I can't comment on the other issues.

The quality of the graphics hurt. Give me SS2-quality+ or give me death.

Heh, Marathon was the Mac's answer to Doom, not System Shock 2.

DosFreak wrote:

Don't bitch at me for suggesting this but why not use a port for Doom such as Jdoom or the SDL version of Marathon? IIRC, the SDL ver of Marathon even has updated graphics and fixes.

Thanks for the info but I'd rather get my emulation working correctly! It's not really the games themselves that I'm annoyed with but the freeze that happens on most any game I'm playing within softmac. I used those two games as an example of what type of games I'm running so that no one says I'm trying to run a game that OS 8.1 or a Quadra won't run. 😉

All my apps like Photoshop 3.0 and Director 6.0 work fine and don't get this freezing issue. It's just the games. And it's not just FPS games that get effected. Abuse does the same thing.