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Steam Client for Mac Launches, Linux Client On the Way
CyDharttha writes with news that the Mac version of Steam went live today, along with Mac versions of Portal, Team Fortress 2, and many other games. Valve plans to make more games available every Wednesday. Several publications are also reporting that a Linux version of Steam has been confirmed, and is expected within the next few months. Quoting Phoronix:
"Found already within the Steam store are Linux-native games like Unreal Tournament 2004, World of Goo, and titles from id Software such as Enemy Territory: Quake Wars and Doom 3. Now that the Source Engine is officially supported on Linux, some Source-based games will be coming over too. Will we finally see Unreal Tournament 3 surface on Linux too? Only time will tell, but it is something we speculated back in 2008. Postal III is also being released this year atop the Source Engine and it will be offering up a native client. We have confirmed that Valve's latest and popular titles like Half-Life 2, Counter-Strike: Source, and Team Fortress 2 are among the first of the Steam Linux titles, similar to the Mac OS X support. The released Linux client should be available by the end of summer."
...oh. So it does. :)
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Tough shit. You can have tux racer.
I can't wait to see the mac users' faces when they are told to enter something in the console :)
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If your steam account is disabled, tough luck getting your games to work unless you can find a Steam emulator.
I had my account disabled for pretending to be a l4d2 developer. Granted, however, it was only done as a joke while talking to one person and that person was aware I was not really a developer. It was just done for comedic humor.
Apparently valve spends a lot of time looking for reasons to disable people's accounts, and mine was disabled like an hour after I got bored of the joke.
I had to bug them by constantly sending help tickets until my account was reenabled a few hours later. Of course, they wouldn't have reenabled it had I done anything wrong, but you'd think at least they could give a warning for me to stop instead of disabling my account with no reason given whatsoever!
You say this like it's a bad thing... Only on Slashdot and certain fetish forums, I suppose.
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You will be able to spot the mac users a month from know as they all scream the cake is a lie randomly.
Apparently the really complex part is dealing with case sensitive file systems since they couldn't actually pull that off.
I know, I would have expected the hard part to be graphics, sound and input, but no, it looks like the hard part is not using hard coded file names in different places within your source that have different capitalizations on them.
I guess no one told them about #define
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They'll already be used to assuming the party escort submission position though.
This is important for people nervaous about his credit card details
Good heavens! Where on earth did you find an "a" in the word "nervous"? It's not even pronounced anything like that! The "a" key on the keyboard isn't even close to "v" or "o"!
(Note: If you try to tell me you're using a DVORAK keyboard, well, frankly, you're not making a good case for it)
Kick ass ... steam for OS X ... and it won't run on a case-sensitive file system ... fucking brilliant guys, good job.
I don't know why people are making such a big issue of this, there is a really easy fix. For every file with n alphabetic characters, just 2^n - 1 symlinks, and you'll be up and ready in no time.