How do I play a game on my Mac OSX computer when the game is on old floppy disks?

I'm speaking specifically about the old Star Trek 25th Anniversary game. It is available for Macs under the old Mac Play format when floppy disks where being used. It's one of my favorite classic games and I'd love to play it again. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you.How do I play a game on my Mac OSX computer when the game is on old floppy disks?I have that game too! Fortunately, I have older Macs to play it on (which I have not done in a long time).



Forget DOSBox. It is a DOS emulator. The game that we have runs on a Mac with OS 7.5 or greater. Sheepsaver (for Intel Macs) requires that have access to an older Mac OS that you can copy the ROM from.



Your best bet is to buy an older Mac. I don't remember if the game comes on 800k floppies or the 1.4MB. I thought the anniversary game came on CD? Anyway, you can get a Rev. 2, B%26amp;W G3, a used USB floppy drive, and OS 8.6 (if necessary) for next to nothing on eBay (less then $100).



Its a little bit of an inconvenience, but you will have more then what you will need to play the game. Have fun!How do I play a game on my Mac OSX computer when the game is on old floppy disks?Get Doxbox for OSX.

http://mac.softpedia.com/get/System-Util鈥?/a>



How you will install the game from the floppy disk is unknown. Perhaps use an External 3.5"/5.25" usb floppy driveHow do I play a game on my Mac OSX computer when the game is on old floppy disks?Sorry, you can't

Even if you had a floppy drive, that game will only work on the old powerpc Macs.



The newer Macs use Intel processors



If you can find a download of the DOS version of the game, you can probably run it in DOSBox:

http://www.dosbox.com/How do I play a game on my Mac OSX computer when the game is on old floppy disks?
You might be able to get it running using Apple Classic Mode (OS X 10.4 or earlier), or using Sheepsaver (10.5), assuming that the disk is a 1.44MB (HD) type with a USB floppy drive. If it is an 800K disk, you will need to buy a used older macintosh with an internal floppy drive in order to read the disk. You may be able to use a network or external drive to transfer the files from the older mac to your OS X Mac if this is the case. Most external USB drives do not read 800K floppies because they require a variable speed drive to read them and most standard floppies are fixed speed.