Emulation (3)

Ethan

A Guide to Legacy Mac Emulators

Last fall I wrote about the collaborative technical/scholarly process of making some '90s multimedia CD-ROMs available for a Cinema Studies course on Interactive Cinema. I elided much of the technical process of setting up a legacy operating system environment in an emulator, since my focus…

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Ethan

Classroom Access to Interactive DVDs

Normally my focus as MIAP Technician is on classroom support for courses in the MIAP M.A. curriculum - but, as a staff member of the wider NYU Cinema Studies department, there are occasionally cases where I can assist non-MIAP Cinema Studies courses with a need…

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Ethan

PowerPC Mac Emulation

A couple weeks ago Mona Jimenez asked me to step into her course on Handling Complex Media, to help a student group with a tech request (business as usual). Going back to the lab, I had a hint of what was coming from the whiteboard: Yes,…

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