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ATITD Mac Beta Released

Posted by michael on from the keeping-up-with-the-joneses dept.

darkwing_bmf writes "A Tale in the Desert 2 has just released a beta version of their Macintosh OS X client. The game itself was covered in a previous Slashdot story. Supported clients already exist for Windows and Linux."

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  1. Good variety in Cross Platform MMORPGs now by Colazar · · Score: 5, Informative
    The ones I know are Shadowbane (which I haven't quite given up on yet), Lineage (couldn't quite bring myself to play), and the upcoming World of Warcraft (I'm sure I'll get sucked into that one somehow). Now with A Tale in the Desert that really takes care of most major MMORPG game-styles, doesn't it?

    Are there any other Cross-Platform ones out there? I don't count Mac Everquest, BTW, cause Macs and PCs can't play on the same servers.

    --
    He decided to just watch the government, and kind of scale it down to size, and run his life that way. --Laurie Anderson
    1. Re:Good variety in Cross Platform MMORPGs now by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

      Puzzle Pirates.

    2. Re:Good variety in Cross Platform MMORPGs now by Maserati · · Score: 3, Informative

      Actually yes, there are. World of Warcraft has Mac and PC clients as of at least the stress-test beta. I've played the same character from both platforms, so it seems to be true multi-platform - the combined installer was also a good clue.

      It's also officially awesome.

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      Veteran, Bermuda Triangle Expeditionary Force, 1992-1951
    3. Re:Good variety in Cross Platform MMORPGs now by MonaXier · · Score: 4, Informative

      The Puzzle Pirates are cross-platform (since it's built on Java, presumably there's Linux support, but I've never tried it). Fun little game, with excellent concept.

  2. Re:Cross-platform is good. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    except there's no killing of any kind in ATITD

    unless you count sacrificing a sheep to make obscene sculputures..

  3. Re:And the download is where? by Smurf · · Score: 2, Informative

    You're not stupid, just too lazy to read through the page.

    The MacOS X installer is linked after the Linux installer, in the line that says:

    Full Install for Macintosh OSX (Current Status: BETA): mirror

  4. Re:And the download is where? by Smurf · · Score: 3, Informative

    OK, I apologize for calling you lazy. I guess you are simply looking at another page.

    The link is in this page: http://www.atitd.com/download.html.

    I'm also using Safari, so that probably isn't the problem.

  5. Re:And the download is where? by Pluribus · · Score: 5, Informative

    Sorry, guys, I wanted it to be more closed beta of the client, so I linked it only off the downloads page until I worked out some more kinks. No big deal, just wanted the best impression possible BEFORE it hitting slashdot. Alas, you guys beat me too it ... BTW, The faster downloads is via http://game.atitd.com/download.html

    Read the README for known issues with the mac client. It is still very much under development.