I would like to buy a Gameboy advance. It looks pretty nifty & will play old games, so I can buy Turrican.

but although It has just been reduced in price from £70 to £50(approx) it is a bit much, so I have dropped big hints as to what ~I want for my birthday in May:-)

My wife was saying that sh'd buy me the Cramp Twins on video, man what if I had to choose, ...........Cramp Twins would win.

Is there a Duke Nukem for the Gameboy?

I still may buy any console or c64 that costs me a tenner or less.

shaktiman

Anyway the point of all that is with a 233 you should be able to emulates any console up to a SNES or MegaDrive, download the games for all of these machines (typically under 2 MB each, much less for C64 games) and have all the consoles you could never afford on one machine! This is exactly what I did, i know have spectrum, Atari, Amiga, SNES and MegaDrive emulators.

C64 emulators should run fine on your machine as it is, go to www.emulation.net now choose a machine download the emulator then do a search for the ROMs. ROMs are interchangeable between PC and Mac so you don't need to worry about where you get them from.

Go get some emulators! You could even buy a cheap game pad for a more realistic console feel. If you ever pic up an A/V card then you can play the games on a TV as well!

Incidentally that GBA is not "that" powerfull although I suspect you would need a lowend G3 to use one of the GBA emulators. You should give it a shot though.

VERY SLOWLY.

I used the iMac (a g3 at 233, with LESS RAM than your specimin has) to play SNES, sega and other misc. games on...

Your 7600 should do good as-is (iThink) but yah, while a processor upgrade it s agood idea, I'd (for you) go witht he new gameboy.

THNxnxx
"come on over myah! I'll give you two fiddy!"

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Anyway the point of all that is with a 233 you should be able to emulates any console up to a SNES or MegaDrive, download the games
for all of these machines (typically under 2 MB each, much less for C64 games) and have all the consoles you could never afford on one
machine! This is exactly what I did, i know have spectrum, Atari, Amiga, SNES and MegaDrive emulators.

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OR

Buy a cheap PC USB card (IIRC any with the OHCI(sp?) chipset are mac compatible the box usually states what chip set they use) a lot say G3 compatible which basically means compatible with any Mac. This well set you back 10 o 15 UKP

buy a cheap USB Playstation 2 ripoff game pad 10 UKP with 8 or so buttons a D-pad and 2 analogue sticks. (Don't pay extra for force feedback it only works on OS X)

download "USB overdrive" and configure.

play games!

all in all that sets you back 20-30 UKP tops

The added bonus of the USB card is if you ever want a cheap USB printer or scanner you can pick up just about any model from a PC shop. This opens up a whole world of decent photo quality 50 UKP printers.

USB can also be used for multi button mice, cheap replacement keyboards etc.

Yet another bonus is if you have a cheap 10 UKP gamepad and your 3yr old decides to eat it or something crazy you're not going to be out of pockect too badly.

A decent mac USB game pad from macally costs about 30 UKP on it's own.

should have a nice comprehensive list of emulators for nearly any platform you'll want

reviews, minimum requirements ect ect.

You might find that you can do emulation for free and still get that gameboy advance anyway.

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