Unreal Tournament 2003 Mac Demo Unleashed

An anonymous reader writes "The Unreal Tournament 2003 demo for Mac has been released - see the story at Insidemacgames.com." The demo has 5 maps, requires OS X, and download mirrors, as always, are hard to come by - try 3D Gamers and Fileshack, also here's unofficial BitTorrent link-age [verified, correct file -Jamie]. It's good to see the Mac community being supported with high-profile titles like this - but what other games would you like to see ported to the Apple-icious platform?

Comments

For the morbidly curious

[Hadlock]

first off, i f-ing hate the slashdot games section color scheme.

secondly, bit torrent does work on a 550 mhz G4 powerbook w/16 MB agp vid card, 512 MB ram. so does UT2003. on OS X 10.2.5 no less.

if you're up for UT2003 slideshow.

Granted, with a minimum system requirement of a 700mhz processor, and a 32 meg video card, the fact that it ran on my system at all is impressive. I get about 0.5FPS by my guess, durring "the action", while I got a decent(?!) 10 or so fps when walking through low poly areas, with everything turned to low, very low, or off.

what does this mean? basically that if you bought your computer in the last 8-12 months, it should meet the minimum sys requirements (mine is closer to 18-20 months old). good luck with this, I guess I'll just have to stick with Quake 1,2,3 and the original UT for now.

p.s. i managed to kill one of the bots on novice skill with the flak cannon! amazing!

p.p.s. shouldn't this be in the apple section, not the games section?

Re:For the morbidly curious

[Hadlock]

Most mac users don't play that many games. Secondly, that claim only holds true for OS 9, OS X has alot of "eye candy" that slows office & non game applications way the hell down, even with a $400 video card.

As for apples older than 12 months old, apple released their 733mhz desktop system in February of 2001... it just took a while for Apple's laptops to break the 700mhz barrier (for marketing reasons). Granted, that model came with a 16 meg video card, but also a 4x AGP bus, so you can pick up a 32 meg card on the cheap these days... which would make the age:performance ratio of the apple about as good as your computer, although you obviously win out on price.

Since you're using my laptop, usually viewed as a lesser peforming computer compared to a traditional desktop at the same speeds, how well would a laptop in the PC world from circa October 2001 fare next to mine? This would be a better comparison.

Port this:

[Paddyish]

Minesweeper.

HL2

[rastachops]

It would be great to have Half-Life 2 on OS X... HL is the one major game that I wish was on OS X, but thats old now, so it'd be better to plan ahead and make HL 2 available within say 6 months of HL2's release.

Minimum specs...

[Visigothe]

It seems that the minimum spec is a bit high, as I am able to play the game at quite a high FPS [well over 30+] on a G4 450DP with all the goodies turned onto full. Granted, the sound is probably offloaded to the second processor.

One catch to this though.... I have a "non standard" video card for my machine. It's the OEM GeForce 3 card that I stuck in a few months ago to play WarCraft III. As long as you've got a good GPU, you should be golden. It is a fun game once you configure the settings [for some reason the mouse is set to *amazingly* slow and useless by default. Once I changed it to somewhere in the 16+ range, I 0wn3z]