Apple Offers Huge Prizes For Video Game Ports

Posted by Zonk on Friday April 1, 2005 @03:38AM from the more-than-just-minesweeper dept.

Oculus Habent writes "In an attempt to increase Apple's market share in the home sector, Steve Jobs announced today that he would personally fund prizes for ports of popular gaming titles to the Macintosh platform. Citing the common complaint of lack of game availability for Mac OS X, Jobs suggests that work in this area could seriously improve Macintosh acceptance. Said Jobs, "We've got incredible, stylish computers and an insanely great operating system. The Mac mini made has a huge impact, but it is only the tip of the iceberg." Prizes include Steve's yearly salary for the first ten ports, and twice that amount for "hot new titles" with a simultaneous release." Update: 04/02 18:02 GMT by Z : April 1st hoax story.

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Steve's yearly salary is 1$ by acomj · 2005-04-01 03:42 · Score: 2, Informative

Really.. The rest is just options...
Enemy Territory by Captain+Splendid · 2005-04-01 03:53 · Score: 2, Informative

In happier (and non-fooling) news, Enemy Territory, my favorite free online game, just released a Mac version, which you can find here.
Anybody wishing help playing the game or finding decent servers to play on are more than welcome to contact me. My friends and I love this game and are always willing to help new blood.

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Linux, you magnificent bastard, I read the fucking manual!
Come on people by Ghetto_D · 2005-04-01 04:12 · Score: 5, Informative

I'm willing to offer Jobs' salary to anyone that posts an actually funny April Fools joke.
links to examples:
http://www.google.com/googlegulp/
http://homestarrunner.com/
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/icopulate.shtml