Connectix Corporation has been at the forefront of the emulation scene ever since it released Virtual PC for Macintosh about two years ago. Virtual PC is an emulator that allows Macintosh users to emulate the Windows environment. Through this, Mac users can now run Microsoft Windows 3.x, 95, 98, and NT-- and virtually any applications that go along with those platforms.
Virtual PC has been a great success for Connectix, but apparently they wanted a bigger challenge. Faced with the ever-growing demand for more games on the Mac platform, Connectix created an emulator for the most popular and best gaming system on the market today, the Sony Playstation. Through this emulator, users can put any Playstation game into their CD ROM drive and play these games just as though they were using the console designed by Sony.
Steve Jobs, interim CEO of Apple, introduced this product at MacWorld San Francisco at the beginning of January. Connectix Virtual Game Station is designed to run on any Macintosh Power PC computer with an ATI graphics card. The ATI graphics card is needed for the intense graphics in some Playstation games.
In my testing of this program, it has performed flawlessly on my G3 300. So far, I have only been able to test games that I have borrowed from friends with Playstations. Every game I have tried has worked perfectly, even graphics-intensive games such as Nascar 98' and Tekken 2.
Best of all, the price of this emulator is only $49. So, for half the price you pay for a real Sony console, you can have the same thing with equally great graphics and sound for your Mac.
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That is the point Connectix has not brokered a deal with Sony. Sony is threatning to sue Connectix right now. If you want this thing better act now it will not be around for long. Connectix should have at least tried to broker a deal with sony but due to pour thinking on Connectix's part. This will not last long.
Name: anonymous Comments:
I like the idea of an emulator that will allow you to play the most popular system on your Mac. But what about those who do not run Macs, aren't these guys leaving a huge market un tapped? If the originators of the software could strike a deal with Sony I am positive that both groups would see a huge jump in proffits.
Name:King Kong Major: girls Comments:
I have to worry about the legality of this issue. Sony does have copyrights to think about just as soon as they have a case if they did not give permission to them this can come back and will byte apple in the ass.
Name:Bill Pollard Comments:
Jeff,
Just read your article on the emulator for the G3 allowing you to play Playstation games. Very nicely written and informative. Ya done good, boy!
Name: Michael M. Sos Comments:
I say hooray for apple and connectix. If you don't know, sony owns playstation. They are rich as hell and hit doesn't hurt them to have some competition. This is saving alot of jobs at apple. Them people have been losing money for a long time and they were destin to die due to the fact no one was making games in mac format. This alliviated the problem and brought the apple platform back to the gamers.
now sony will have to make the money on the games rather than the system. I am guessing they will probably sell a few more to.
Name: anonymous Comments:
Does anyone else see this as cheating the system? What about the workers at PLAYSTATION? Don't they have the right to what's coming to them?
