Old GameMaker Released as Freeware

[Gan]

Hmm, I wonder what went wrong with my boot disk...
Anyways, pretty awesome tutorial.


-Gan

[Silverwind]

THANKYOU GabrielCA I spent hours looking for how to set it up. I should of started at the GMG all along. I simply downloaded the HD from the link you gave and it worked instantly.

Which link was it? I'm absolutely brain dead here.

[GabrielCA]

@Silverwind :
http://www.redundantrobot.com/sheepshaver-tutorial/

Includes a download link ("Mac OS 9 Boot Image (120 megs) ") for a fully preconfigurated SheepShaver HD.

Use of this is legal only if you actually own a real copy of OS 9.

[GabrielCA]

THANKYOU GabrielCA I spent hours looking for how to set it up. I should of started at the GMG all along. I simply downloaded the HD from the link you gave and it worked instantly.

No need to thank, for it's all in a temporal-unit-representing-perhaps-a-few-hours-spent-searching-on-Google's work   .

[Silverwind]

Ah, thanks Gabriel! I still own my old boot disk but don't have it with me.

[GabrielCA]

Great ! Functional and legal !
And once more,
No need to thank, for it's all in a temporal-unit-representing-perhaps-a-few-hours-spent-searching-on-Google's work.

[EDIT] And just as a quick note, that GM program also works in Mini vMac

[Silverwind]

I'm still not sure what I'm doing wrong. I've downloaded the 120 meg file containing the virtual desktop and the system folder, but which HD do I link it to? The only one I have is Gan's.

[GabrielCA]

The 120MB image is an HD image.
You must put it in the "Volumes" section of the GUI-based configurator ("SheepShaverGUI") and click "Start". (Go to the "Volumes" tab and click "Add")
You must also have a New World Mac ROM, the path of which you must specify in the "Memory/Misc" tab.

If all this is respected and SheepShaver still fails, try increasing the allotted memory ("Memory/Misc" tab) or tweaking parameters...

[Tireas Dragon]

I was already getting the mac to startup just the install wasn't working. (it said something like this doesn't work(and yes I was using the os 9.0.4 disc so it should work))

[Gan]

Hey guys, I just downloaded the Sheep Shaver I uploaded to see if it'd be broken and it was!
Turns out that it appears that it breaks the hard disk if zipped, uploaded, unzipped, and used.


-Gan

[Tireas Dragon]

That explains everything. (Except for the fact that when I started to use it, it accepted the colemak keyboard and rejected it later on)

[Gan]

http://web.mac.com/avisaria/MacOS9HD.dmg

That link should have the working hard drive once it finishes uploading.


-Gan

[Silverwind]

Hurray! I finally got it working! Thanks guys, now I can play all those ancient GM games.

EDIT:

Wow, Chronicle of Ekan is a bloomin' good game!

[GMG Mike]

I thought CoE was made in GameMaker, but I guess it was made in HyperCard? Otherwise, I would have recommended to use GM Carbonizer.