/comp/ - Mac help

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-25 17:28

Greetings, I've been thinking about buying a 12' ibook g4, but before I make the big move i'd like to ask you guys a couple of things; first, emulation, is it possible? I'd be satisfied with gba and ps1. second, i read a crapload of manga in my desktop, is there any good(ish) comics reader for mac? (I use Comicsviewer on my desktop)
Thanks in advance

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-25 19:24

Not sure about emulation (I only play SNES games on my Mac) but ffview is the best manga viewer on a Mac

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-25 19:27

And how playable are snes games?

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-25 21:14

http://www.bannister.org/software/emu.htm is basically the only place you need to go for OSX console emulation.

You can play anything you can on Windows just as good if not better.

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-25 21:57

Is now the time to be buying hardware using PPC? You're going to regret that in a year or two...

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-26 8:54

My 1.33GHz iBook has just enough grunt to run the PCSX (PS1) emulator. FFView for reading manga.

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-26 12:13

http://www.feedface.com/projects/ffview.html (Universal)

http://www.zophar.net/mac/mac.phtml (More then likely PowerPC forever)

FFView just takes some time to learn the commands.

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-26 17:23

Xee for pictures. All the goods things from old versions of ACDSEE, without any useless crap. Can't read from archives, and resizing algorithm is not as smooth as preview.app (but much faster)
http://wakaba.c3.cx/sup/index.html

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-26 18:16

I use Preview for just general image viewing. Opens like ZOMG teh every image file ever. If it's manga I use FFView.

If you want to save some money go with a refurbushed iBook and save some cash. You might end up with a bigger hard drive or more RAM then stock.

Name: Ze OP 2006-04-26 18:33

Thanks for the replies! Btw, how well does the mac do with BT and video players? for audio files itunes will have to do i suppose..

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-26 18:37

I use VLC religiously. Azureus is good for managing a lot of torrents. It's just a system whore on OS X. I normally use Bits on Wheels for most of my fansubs and seeding. Some trackers don't like it and I use Azureus to fall back on.

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-27 20:33

Oh, one more thing, is there any mirc-like program for easy xdcc-leeching? :P

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-27 21:33

www.opera.com

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-28 10:05

I fail in my knowledge of IRC clients for OS X. I normally just use X-Chat Aqua. Your milage my vary.

http://www.ircreviews.org/clients/platforms-macos.html

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-28 11:42

xchat is crap. Use irssi.

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-28 11:44

Oh and for the OP: Comix is an excellent comic book reader. It's GTK, but nothing's perfect. http://comix.sourceforge.net/

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-28 12:05

>>16
It's GTK, but nothing's perfect.
Lol
Actually, all the GTK applications I tried minus GIMP run pretty good under Windows, even better than they do under Linux in the same box.

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-29 11:48

>>13
Opera sucks sure there's an ebuild for opera but it just get dropped to /opt, it's statically linked, and it's CLOSED SOURCE, which means that it is a BINARY package.

Mac help

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