Gens for Intel Macs, anybody interested?

Certainly... if this is real.

As far as I know, there isn't any 32X or MegaCD emulator for the Mac platform yet.
A lot of people at emuscene.com are asking for something like this.

 

Saz and some others messed around with the Gens source, and got it to compile on Mac. It's legit; 32x emulation doesn't seem to work yet, though.

 

I'm highly interested in anything having to do with OS X and emulation at the moment as I'm planning to buy a laptop from Apple soon. If this is the only way to run Sega CD titles on that OS you best belive I'll be using it.

 

Puto and I are currently working on getting this to work more natively, or as natively as we can without a complete re-write. We'll keep you updated.

 

I would certainly be interested in this, how natively would you be able to get this to run?

 

Well, I've already made an XCode project for Gens. I'm going to be learning CoCoa so I can rewrite the UI using SDL. Gens uses SDL already for Linux and OS X, so making a useful UI for it shouldn't be too hard.

It would be awesome if a rewrite of Gens could take place in pure C++ so it would run on the PowerPC platform.

 

Well, I don't know very many of the details of Gens 3, but I suspect that it will be in pure C++. Stef is rewriting the whole damn thing, and I vaguely recall something about doing away with the Starscream 68k emulator...