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"xbill" for Mac OS X

Posted by pudge on from the it-passes-the-time dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Seems like some guys have made a GPL'd Mac OS X game called xGates. It's very similar to xbill but you get to use a chainsaw and it's awfully violent. Funny to see how the Mac community is slowly but surely becoming UNIXified. =)" Hey, xbill was a Unix app first, but we Mac users have hated Microsoft and Gates since before Linux or xbill even existed! :-)

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  1. Wow by Znonymous+Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    This wrong on 4 different levels of wrongness. I love it!

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  2. UNIXified by skinfitz · · Score: 4, Funny

    Funny to see how the Mac community is slowly but surely becoming UNIXified.

    Next they will be using the terminal app. Seriously though, transitioning from OS9 to OSX must be a bit like moving from an automatic to a stick shift.

    Watch this get modded down because it's mac related.

  3. Looks a lot like it's parodying Microsoft? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I may be missing something, but it looks a lot like this game is poking fun at Microsoft (the software company based in Redmond, Washington). If you look at some of the screenshots, the "bill" that they use looks a lot like Bill Gates, one of Microsoft's founders. And the description they give of the "enemy" you're fighting resembles some of the mainstream media's portrayals of Microsoft (you may have seen them in the news a few times.) Gosh, I hope they noticed the resemblence...someone over at Microsoft (even Bill Gates) might be uncomfortable with this!

  4. Not only is it a game... by Whatsthiswhatsthis · · Score: 2, Funny

    But it's GPLed!

    Other than porting, what exactly can you do with the code for a chainsaw game?

    Oh yeah, BFC mods.

  5. So, who else reached level 13? by Alex+Thorpe · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's a simplistic game, but as Brain says when he flattens Pinky, "That was very therapeutic." Of course, the DoJ was useless! And of course, no matter how much you might, Bill wins in the end.

    Oh, and nice Rammstein soundtrack! Some of the other interface elements reminded me of the classic Ambrosia game Maelstrom.(which was ported to UNIX and later back to OS X)

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  6. Something terribly wrong with the game... by Tseran · · Score: 5, Funny

    Firstly, there is a huge problem. Bill installs Windows WAY too fast. If anyone I know could install Windows on a Mac in THAT short of time, I would think they switched it into an Intel machine. Even VPC doesn't load that fast ;) Secondly, as we all know, when Bill play with Windows in public, it blue screens. None of the Macs bluescreened once he installed Windows.... Good start, but we need more realism...and more bloody pieces of Bill lying around.

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  7. What... by Wireless+Joe · · Score: 3, Funny


    no Windows version? How is 90% of the population supposed to play? This game will go nowhere.