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by aksss 1771 days ago
You can still use a 286 to play King’s Quest, too. A 2013 Mac is in no way an adequate gaming machine in any sense of the idea. You couldn’t still use a 286 to play Falcon 3 or Comanche back when they were new, and you can’t use a 2013-gen tech stack to realize full potential of today’s games. The benchmark of playable Minecraft is not a suitable measure for capability, only a reflection of unchanging demands since 2013.
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chongli 1771 days ago
You can run King's Quest I-VII (and countless other classic adventure games) via SCUMMVM [1]. Falcon 3 and Comanche can be run via DOSBox [2]. That 2013 Mac can easily play almost any game from the DOS era using one of these two fantastic open source projects.

[1] https://www.scummvm.org

[2] https://www.dosbox.com

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aksss 1770 days ago
The point is that old hardware sucks if trying to facilitate modern software. Not the other way around. A 2013 anything (mac or pc) will be a poor performer with today's games.
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