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id, EA Show Support For Apple

Posted by Zonk on from the i-what dept.

The iPhone may have been the star at today's Apple event, but Joystiq points out that id software's debut of 'id Tech 5' is just as beautiful. There are no current details on the first title slated to use the engine. Just the same John Carmack had a few things to say, pointing out the technology's strong graphical and cross-platform performance: "What we've got here is the entire world with unique textures, 20GB of textures covering this track. They can go in and look at the world and, say, change the color of the mountaintop, or carve their name into the rock. They can change as much as they want on surfaces with no impact on the game ... We're going to be showing on a Mac, PC, PS3, and Xbox at E3, we'll have another Mac announcement at E3." Game|Life also points out that EA will be throwing support behind OS X, with releases of major titles like Command and Conquer 3, Battlefield 2142, Need For Speed Carbon, and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

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  1. Re:Woopee by Paralizer · · Score: 2, Informative

    id games always have native Linux binaries.

  2. Re:Say that again.... by ostermei · · Score: 2, Informative

    Their "support" for Macs is to give them games that have been out for over a year on PC?
    Did you even bother to read the summary? They also announced that the Mac will be one of the plethora of platforms that the next Madden and Tiger Woods PGA Tour games are released on. Not a single game mentioned is "more than a year old," and one of them (three if you count Madden and Tiger Woods, although they weren't listed in the /. summary) isn't even out yet.
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  3. Mac World New York, Can you guess the date? by mr-mafoo · · Score: 2, Informative

    MWNY 1999, I remember watching the stream live and getting hyped over this MMO shooter. Its such a shame it never became the game it was intended to be.-=[shake fist]=-

    The video of the demo is still up on the web, ah the nostalgia. http://nikon.bungie.org/movie1.html

  4. GX is more like GL than like DX by tepples · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'm not sure about Sony, but Nintendo doesn't use OpenGL. True, but the GX API used by GameCube and DS games is much closer to OpenGL than to DirectX graphics. The PSP API is also very similar to GL, and the PS3 uses OpenGL ES itself.
  5. Re:Woopee by Broken+scope · · Score: 2, Informative

    Usually when someone replies to your post they are asking you a question right? That is the whole point of the threading system isn't?

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