Hey chums,

Welcome to Sildrohar's Spesh Recipe on How to Run Marathon on your home PC.


You will need:

A IBM PC or compatible, 1 GHZ + RAM.
A MS Windows Whatever 95 or up, up and away.
A copy of the Basilisk II Macintosh Emulator (Google 1!)
A copy of the ROM file of MAC Performa II (Google 2!)
A copy of the MAC Operating System MacOS 6 or up! UP! (Google 3)
Patience
And the hdx file of Marathon, at Bungie (Google again!)

1. Download Basilisk.
2. Fiddle with it.
3. Download the MAC ROM or the emu won't work!
4. Download the whopping 8 Megs MAC OS!
5. Fiddle a bit more with Basilisk (Warning! May remove life from you!)
6. Get the hdx file from MARATHON.
7. Go to MAC OS, find file and run it!

For further fun, see JN (and some people) playing it!
Just search Marathon on the AP2 site (That's AP2, a site about a dead computer mag called AMIGA POWER) and try to find the Marathon movies. They're zipped, bot not quite. Find the Winzip-but-for-MAC prog and tell marathon to play the films for you.

Enjoy.


OK, just this time, I'll save you trouble (and life!)
Info on how to meddle with Basilisk, including download details.

Ugly page with Mac OS (free!FREE!) (and legal!)

BUT!

I didn't know Bungie was bought by Microsoft! They removed the Marathon 'abandonware' from everywhere... But I'm still scouring the net searching for it. Sorry Bungie. By the way, Halo is crap.

I didn't follow the rest of it.

But it certainly is the truest thing I've heard today.

But what's so groovy about Marathon?

It's not called Snickers?

I have a mac, is the port to aleph one any good? Or is it better to find the original game. Somehow

Don't you find that sites dedicated to dead computer games magazines are a bit rubbish? Especially when they charge you 50p a week...

Kidding. By the way, your post has been the best thing I've seen all week. Have a biscuit.

*munch, munch*
Thanks for the biscuit, man.

The counter-revolution is at hand!

Here for the Mac ROM files!
Load downwards the Quadra ROM, stick it on your er...Basilisk II emulator (Memory>Rom File Path). Victory! You have a fully functioning 10-year old Mac-in-tosh!
Remember all those (19) disks you downloaded yesterday? Well, don't just stand there, grab yourself a "startup disk" (I'm not linking you this time), put it in the floppies section of the Basilisk GUI and install the disks from the Mac OS.

Next step: Finding Marathon on the Internet (the second illegal part of the deal. Ulp.)

Toodles. For now.

I'll be doing all that as soon as I can, but until then I'll just play the abandonware Windows version of Marathon 2. (Yes, it's probably actually illegal, and I know that the 24-hour thing is rubbish, but I'm a software pirate and I don't care)

Oh my bloody typwriter of a p.c wont play that.

Huruph. Maybe I should start up a "Buy PG a new P.C" campagne!? Wadda ya think?



Thought not. Ho hum.

I've got Basilisk running and have several applications working, but when starting up Marathon 2, the following error appears:

Sorry, Marathon requires a 13" monitor (640x480) or larger which can be set to at least 256 colors or grays.

Basilisk is actually set to 600x800 at 32 million colours. Are there any suggestions?

Set Basilisk to 640x480 at 256 colours?