Re: Trouble with Oregon Trail in emulation on a Mac

[Greg Buchner <null@none.invalid>]

In article <1ij28zv.8gfy8115yarevN%jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz>,
 jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) wrote:

> Jamie Kahn Genet <jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz> wrote:
> 
> > Greg Buchner <null@none.invalid> wrote:
> > 
> > > In article <1ij1ku3.rlcrodoa2s2aN%jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz>,
> > >  jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Greg Buchner <null@none.invalid> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > In article <1ij00ph.k56knu1eekddnN%jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz>,
> > > > >  jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > > schmidtd <schmidtd@my-deja.com> wrote:
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > > On Jun 19, 8:06 am, jami...@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet)
> > > > > > > wrote:
> > > > > > > > Or could the emulator be broken?
> > > > > > > You might want to try Virtual ][:
> > > > > > > http://www.virtualii.com/
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > It's the best of the bunch? Certainly looks pretty spiffy from it's
> > > > > > description.
> > > > > 
> > > > > It probably is the most comprehensive Apple II (][, ][+, //e) 
> > > > > emulator
> > > > > out there, but as a shareware program, it might be a bit expensive 
> > > > > for
> > > > > occasional use.  You could try:
> > > > > 
> > > > > http://catakig.sourceforge.net/
> > > > > 
> > > > > Which I've happily used on the rare occasions I want to emulate an 
> > > > > Apple
> > > > > IIe.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Greg Buchner
> > > > 
> > > > Sadly Catakig's disk images are corrupt :-(
> > > 
> > > I just downloaded it through Sourceforge and ran it (after getting a
> > > copy of the ROM from another computer). All of the included disk images
> > > worked just fine.
> > > 
> > > Greg Buchner
> > 
> > Failed here with both Camino and Firefox 3.
> 
> Ok, just tried downloading again and I'm getting the same very tiresome
> "this disk image may be damaged" and "no mountable filesystems" errors
> when I try to mount the image.
> 
> I'm not having trouble opening other images.

I just downloaded it and successfully opened it with these browsers:

Safari 3.1.1
Firefox 2.0.0.14
Internet Explorer 5.2.3
Netscape 7.2
Opera 9.10

I may get around to finally downloading Firefox 3 later today and trying 
it...

Greg Buchner

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