What games for a Macally Joystick?

[pcamen]

I just got a nice Macally ADB joystick from eBay. What are people's favorite games on vintage Macs that support a joystick?

 

[Phipli]

F/A-18 Hornet.


What computer are you using it with? Give an idea of what age game.

 

[pcamen]

My goal is to have computer for each of system 6 (Mac Plus), system 7 (SE/30, IIci, Quadra 700, PB 540, and / or LC 475), and system 9 (Lombard). Gonna introduce the kids to vintage Macs and set these up in our rec / game room along with a pool table, MAME arcade system, fussball, and Xbox.

Let me tell you some of the flight arcade games on MAME are pretty fun with a joystick.

 

[Phipli]

The ones everyone used to play were F/A-18 Hornet as above, and also A-10 Attack.

F/A-18 version 1 and 2 need a machine with an 020 or better, personally I'd recommend at least 25MHz unless you want to play in black and white.

Later versions, namely Hornet Korea (based on version 3) supports OpenGL on your Lombard, but you specifically need version 1.1.

Can't remember the specs for A-10 Attack.

There are old versions of Microsoft Simulator that work on compact macs.

 

[tafkar]

Older versions of Warbirds may work with that joystick.

 

[LaPorta]

Personally, I'd play everything (Hellcats, F/A-18, and A-10) on a Power Mac. No reason to have a slowdown with an 020 or something.

 

[Forrest]

Star Wars Tie Fighter and Star Wars X-Wing. Both require at a 68040 or PowerPC.

 

[chelseayr]

I know that both 'starwar x-wing collector' and descentII seem to quite like having a joystick (bit more if its one with extra aux functions optionally) but you'll naturally need a powerpc of some sort in the first place .. and agreed on ms flight simulator for just about any 68k

 

[olePigeon]

Rebel Assault would like use it.

 

[LaPorta]

Rebel Assault is possibly one of the worst games of all time.

 

[joshc]

Personally, I'd play everything (Hellcats, F/A-18, and A-10) on a Power Mac. No reason to have a slowdown with an 020 or something.

Do G3/G4 systems run these too fast or are they playable on modern PPC?

 

[LaPorta]

Do G3/G4 systems run these too fast or are they playable on modern PPC?

However it is done in programming, there is nothing that speeds these games up past what would be their "normal" max playable speed. I have run into issues where Hellcats did not work properly on my iMac G4 for some reason, however, due to graphics issues.

 

[cobalt60]

Red Baron was one I remember running excessively fast on faster Macs. I liked A-10 Cuba and Hornet 3.0.

Highly recommend X-Plane. The demo is the full program but with a 5 minute time limit. It comes with a Plane Designer program. Its fun taking existing planes and modifying them, kitbashing other planes parts on it, seeing how everything flies modified like this, etc. Its very accurate for physics, and actually calculates the aerodynamics of all the parts of the plane. So if you add some bulge or something to a plane, it will slow it down accordingly. Theres hundreds if not thousands of planes available. Its still in active development, but no idea the latest version that runs on PPC

 

[finkmac]

i recommend zoop

 

[Phipli]

Just found a copy of the drivers from the MacAlly ADB joystick I had as a kid.

They work in System 7.* Pre input sprocket.