I consistently see this in Mac games - they just tend to work a bit better. And the more people that move to the Mac and buy games for it, the more games will be ported.
Man you make a lot of sense. If I could, I would have modded your comment up. See, I've been chatting it up on some boards and stuff, and the same thing comes out every time. If more people used Mac, it would be better, and it is getting better; so switch, and bring everyone you know with you.
I'm doing it. I've got a system I'm looking at right now that is smoking, even though it's a lot of $$.
Now Microsoft (Billygoat Gates on his mountain of cash) can know all our secrets AND all the secrets of the government, the CIA... not to mention the colony on Alpha Centauri. (ducks)
Jeepers creepers. I did fundraising for a political party in Ontario, and this appears to be similar in many aspects to political financing, except our riding didn't do as good as Tauzin.
Hmmm. Maybe I should start a cause. (SRAE : Slashdot Regulation Association of Earth : battles internet abuse of time wasted on the internet posting to sites like slashdot... the right wing would eat it up and I could spend all my time posting at/.)
Go on over to an apple store, and give the XCode tools a shot, I'm pretty sure they're installed on a machine there. Thanks for the advice man, I appreciate it! I'm going to do just that. Actually I just decided to return to school, so maybe I can get a discount on some goodies.:)
You're welcome to your views, no matter how rude or obnoxious they might be. You're obviously some troll, who slams everything outside your demographic. Or maybe you visit PlanetCrap.com frequently? (just a guess here)
Do ya hate everyone who's not like you? Do you hate everything that's not aimed directly at your world or style? So why do you hate Michael Moore? Is it because of his weight? His political slant? His film? Or do you secretly want him, sexually, and are angry with him for rejecting your overtures d'amour?
GB Sr? He was a long time CIA man, meaning he's killed a large number of people, and he's got loads of dirty secrets hidden away. It's feasible that he plotted his son's reign and executed a plan to get that. Look at the votes in Florida. Look at 9/11. I smell a conspiracy, and I'm not your typical conspiracy nut. I'm reasonable and average in almost every way.:)
I think his son is just not a skilled as he was in hiding his true self. If anything, Bush Jr. is less confident and assured as his father. He's doing his father's bidding.
However, you'll probably gain more respect from the gaming community - and your efforts will be more useful towards a real job in the gaming industry - if you don't do a Columbine total conversion.
I can see why you posted this anonymous. tee hee!
The fact that immediately you assume we are doing a school shooting mod, kinda makes me chuckle. Why don't you head over to our site and read about our project before you ignorantly bash it: http://doomforcolumbine.com
It's not the kill kids mod for DooM. It's non-violent, political satire in the perfect sheath -- a formerly violent video game!
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Is this their plan to "lock in" universities to teaching microsoft programing to all levels, because it will take 4 years of classes just to cover it all? At first glance, this seemed like a troll. But then I got to thinking... you never know. It could be a plot by Microsoft to soak up all the time of programmers, so they don't have time for PHP & MySQL love.
Not hard at all. A lot faster with Xcode. But do you mean just compile, or do you mean write? I mean write and compile; but more importantly: how hard is it to get things to work on the Mac, compared to the pain-in-the-arse windows systems logic can be -- specificially media programming.
Being PC-centric. Is this going to be a Carbon contraption, or are you going to do it right, in Cocoa?
When Id Software releases their source code, we're going to revise it heavily and compile it for Mac, if possible. My guess is I'll be writing for PC compiling, and then using some kind of porting binary to port it to Mac. I'd like to skip this step and compile straight to Mac, and have a separate build for Windows systems.
You also risk never being able to return to a PC again. You'll be totally spoiled.
Every time I use a Mac I feel spoiled rotten, so it's funny you should mention that. I think this would be a good thing, and I'm looking forward to it.:)
it doesn't matter how cool a game is, how many copies it's sold on the PC... if it's not profitable, it will not be ported. period.
I would liken this to a kind of litmus test! Profitable games, are generally really fun games that have that super-addictive quality to them. To me, this is a good thing, this filtration. If anything, I want to buy a Mac even more, now that I've read these responses.
I would be using the Mac primarily for level design, texture and cinematics. I wonder... any news on a Mac level design proggie for DooM 3? Maybe there's something on qeradiant.com, but I'm guessing it's going to be a while before the tools come out for DooM 3. Maybe a month or two after it releases.
I'm considering getting a G5 for game development. I'm currently running a small dev team that is gearing up for work on a DooM 3 total conversion. My question is, Mac gamers, how hard is it going to be to compile DooM 3 on OS X 10.3 Panther, compared to PC? What are the roadblocks for PC-centric guys like myself? Are there any good tutorial sites for gamers like myself who want to switch?
I figure, if John Carmack is coding DooM 3 on a Mac, then it must be all that, right?
My fucking wife just passed out because of this, and she's gonna wake up any minute!! I made the mistake of mentioning your suggestion to build a Wal-Mart Arco. Geez man, someone hurry up and give me some advice how to thwart her demands for me to email Wal Mart to see if it's possible!!! **paces in living room**
1. Wait. 2. Buy stuff from only your home town. 3. Eat less. 4. Shop less. 5. Buy an electric car. 6. Walk. 7. Run. 8. Bike. 9. Have lots of sex. (ok these aren't in order) 10. Make fun of people who drive or buy things from far away or shop too much or don't have much sex.
It's a Doom 3 total conversion that sets out to lampoon quite a few weasels with wacky non-lethal weaponry. New York Times ran a bit about us, without fully knowing what we're up to. My guess is they would have included info about how you could smack Dubya with a giant flyswatter in our game for points.
I can't keep from getting angry when I hear these kinds of totally false statements that Microsoft solves bugs quickly.
It wouldn't be so bad I guess, if it was from some lowly person like me saying it off the cuff, but to hear it from that totally rich bastard Bill Gates say it, really makes my blood boil. He's made all his money on lies, deception and hoodwinkery!
The sad thing is that many people believe him, because he's rich -- not because he is correct.
Microsoft's approach to solving bugs is this: 1. If it's broken, ignore it until it does major damage (because so much is broken, and you can make much more money on big disasters).
2. If it's NOT broken, fix it so you can sell the new version of it, and make more money, since if it's not broken, you must know how it works enough to change it so that it requires a new boxed version.
3. Repeat and feel free to interchange 1 & 2 after each step, because breaking the product is acceptable, since the public expects it sometimes.
Think about trade tariffs, duty and taxes. They likely just didn't want the headache. I am sure there are a dozen laws that are archaic that could be used against them if they did an international site. Or maybe they didn't want to compete with an american store that was launching?
The Canadian and American music industries are kinda odd. They are seperate entities with totally different takes on RIAA crap. I'm guessing the cost was prohibitive to sell to the states.
Now that puretracks is/.'d, will the music downloads run at a snail's pace? Hopefully not.
I think this is EXACTLY what we need to combat the RIAA. Cheap songs, cheap albums. Not only that, you may find artists putting more top-notch tracks on their albums, since people will likely pick and choose the songs they want.
If more online stores like this opened up, I think we'd see a lot less illegal p2p (not that I care).
Give me my TI/994A anytime. I was never into the C-64 that much because it seemed like everyone had them and while they did have some pretty amazing graphics at the time, I found myself having to justify the cost of switching systems. I guess it was a nostalgia thing for me, but my TI/994A provided me with more insight about how to program games and work with the peripherals like my handy speech synthesizer and memory expansion box.
The TI had the shape of today's computer, without the juice under the hood. It's a shame they didn't go further with the series, but I guess it wasn't viable.
Parsec, Munch Man... 99er. TI meetings. Oh to be a nerd in the 80's...
Screeners comprise only about 49.847723% of the actual pirated software on the net. It's like this because it's convenient for pirates to snag a copy of the film and use it, before the film is released.
Banning screeners would mean that the industry is starting to cave in from the piracy movement. Is that what you want? Do you want Hollywood to crumble? But wait a minute.
Ten dollars for a bag of popcorn and a pop?
Five dollars for a box of candy?
Maybe there is more here than meets the eye! Maybe it's not that pirates want to ruin Hollywood. Maybe the public is saying somthing to the movie industry about other possible reforms that should be considered.
Like going to the theater when there are a couple of goofs talking through the whole movie. Or when some smelly guys wears flip-flops that are five years old, and sits near you while he adjusts his seat every five seconds.
The whole experience of the movies has declined since the eighties, while a lot of other industries have improved (like the video game industry).
Banning screeners is the way to go, if you want to hurt the little indy film maker, but maybe some smart person will release their films ONLY to the internet, and become the next Bill Gates.
Agreed. I didn't buy any Ebooks because I could tell they were scamming the masses. The fast method of production to consumption meant that it was so very cheap to produce an ebook, and the fact that they didn't drop the price from real books that much, really stuck in my craw. I felt that the publishers were just adept at hiding the real motivation behind ebooks; to change their industry and make it 10x more profitable at the expense of the public. The fact nobody bought into that philosophy by supporting ebooks, is likely a result of karma.:)
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I consistently see this in Mac games - they just tend to work a bit better. And the more people that move to the Mac and buy games for it, the more games will be ported.
Man you make a lot of sense. If I could, I would have modded your comment up. See, I've been chatting it up on some boards and stuff, and the same thing comes out every time. If more people used Mac, it would be better, and it is getting better; so switch, and bring everyone you know with you.
I'm doing it. I've got a system I'm looking at right now that is smoking, even though it's a lot of $$.
Now Microsoft (Billygoat Gates on his mountain of cash) can know all our secrets AND all the secrets of the government, the CIA... not to mention the colony on Alpha Centauri. (ducks)
Jeepers creepers. I did fundraising for a political party in Ontario, and this appears to be similar in many aspects to political financing, except our riding didn't do as good as Tauzin.
/.)
Hmmm. Maybe I should start a cause. (SRAE : Slashdot Regulation Association of Earth : battles internet abuse of time wasted on the internet posting to sites like slashdot... the right wing would eat it up and I could spend all my time posting at
Then I could fundraise! tee hee
Go on over to an apple store, and give the XCode tools a shot, I'm pretty sure they're installed on a machine there. :)
Thanks for the advice man, I appreciate it! I'm going to do just that. Actually I just decided to return to school, so maybe I can get a discount on some goodies.
What's the best scenario for film editing on Mac?
So basically, you're saying that if it's worth playing, you can play it on the Mac!
:)
Sounds good to me.
You're welcome to your views, no matter how rude or obnoxious they might be. You're obviously some troll, who slams everything outside your demographic. Or maybe you visit PlanetCrap.com frequently? (just a guess here)
Do ya hate everyone who's not like you? Do you hate everything that's not aimed directly at your world or style? So why do you hate Michael Moore? Is it because of his weight? His political slant? His film? Or do you secretly want him, sexually, and are angry with him for rejecting your overtures d'amour?
Tell us, AC. Who's your daddy? Dubya?
GB Sr? He was a long time CIA man, meaning he's killed a large number of people, and he's got loads of dirty secrets hidden away. It's feasible that he plotted his son's reign and executed a plan to get that. Look at the votes in Florida. Look at 9/11. I smell a conspiracy, and I'm not your typical conspiracy nut. I'm reasonable and average in almost every way. :)
I think his son is just not a skilled as he was in hiding his true self. If anything, Bush Jr. is less confident and assured as his father. He's doing his father's bidding.
However, you'll probably gain more respect from the gaming community - and your efforts will be more useful towards a real job in the gaming industry - if you don't do a Columbine total conversion.
I can see why you posted this anonymous. tee hee!
The fact that immediately you assume we are doing a school shooting mod, kinda makes me chuckle. Why don't you head over to our site and read about our project before you ignorantly bash it: http://doomforcolumbine.com
It's not the kill kids mod for DooM. It's non-violent, political satire in the perfect sheath -- a formerly violent video game!
Is this their plan to "lock in" universities to teaching microsoft programing to all levels, because it will take 4 years of classes just to cover it all?
At first glance, this seemed like a troll. But then I got to thinking... you never know. It could be a plot by Microsoft to soak up all the time of programmers, so they don't have time for PHP & MySQL love.
Not hard at all. A lot faster with Xcode. But do you mean just compile, or do you mean write?
:)
I mean write and compile; but more importantly: how hard is it to get things to work on the Mac, compared to the pain-in-the-arse windows systems logic can be -- specificially media programming.
Being PC-centric. Is this going to be a Carbon contraption, or are you going to do it right, in Cocoa?
When Id Software releases their source code, we're going to revise it heavily and compile it for Mac, if possible. My guess is I'll be writing for PC compiling, and then using some kind of porting binary to port it to Mac. I'd like to skip this step and compile straight to Mac, and have a separate build for Windows systems.
You also risk never being able to return to a PC again. You'll be totally spoiled.
Every time I use a Mac I feel spoiled rotten, so it's funny you should mention that. I think this would be a good thing, and I'm looking forward to it.
it doesn't matter how cool a game is, how many copies it's sold on the PC... if it's not profitable, it will not be ported. period.
I would liken this to a kind of litmus test! Profitable games, are generally really fun games that have that super-addictive quality to them. To me, this is a good thing, this filtration. If anything, I want to buy a Mac even more, now that I've read these responses.
I would be using the Mac primarily for level design, texture and cinematics. I wonder... any news on a Mac level design proggie for DooM 3? Maybe there's something on qeradiant.com, but I'm guessing it's going to be a while before the tools come out for DooM 3. Maybe a month or two after it releases.
I'm considering getting a G5 for game development. I'm currently running a small dev team that is gearing up for work on a DooM 3 total conversion. My question is, Mac gamers, how hard is it going to be to compile DooM 3 on OS X 10.3 Panther, compared to PC? What are the roadblocks for PC-centric guys like myself? Are there any good tutorial sites for gamers like myself who want to switch ?
I figure, if John Carmack is coding DooM 3 on a Mac, then it must be all that, right?
My fucking wife just passed out because of this, and she's gonna wake up any minute!!
I made the mistake of mentioning your suggestion to build a Wal-Mart Arco. Geez man, someone hurry up and give me some advice how to thwart her demands for me to email Wal Mart to see if it's possible!!! **paces in living room**
Hee hee. You might like our project.
1. Wait.
2. Buy stuff from only your home town.
3. Eat less.
4. Shop less.
5. Buy an electric car.
6. Walk.
7. Run.
8. Bike.
9. Have lots of sex. (ok these aren't in order)
10. Make fun of people who drive or buy things from far away or shop too much or don't have much sex.
Now we have a ton of new fish for O'Reilly to stipple and use for cover art!
It'd be a better gig than the NRA, on all accounts!
We're getting some digs in on some of these weasels at doomforcolumbine.com
It's a Doom 3 total conversion that sets out to lampoon quite a few weasels with wacky non-lethal weaponry. New York Times ran a bit about us, without fully knowing what we're up to. My guess is they would have included info about how you could smack Dubya with a giant flyswatter in our game for points.
I can't keep from getting angry when I hear these kinds of totally false statements that Microsoft solves bugs quickly.
It wouldn't be so bad I guess, if it was from some lowly person like me saying it off the cuff, but to hear it from that totally rich bastard Bill Gates say it, really makes my blood boil. He's made all his money on lies, deception and hoodwinkery!
The sad thing is that many people believe him, because he's rich -- not because he is correct.
Microsoft's approach to solving bugs is this:
1. If it's broken, ignore it until it does major damage (because so much is broken, and you can make much more money on big disasters).
2. If it's NOT broken, fix it so you can sell the new version of it, and make more money, since if it's not broken, you must know how it works enough to change it so that it requires a new boxed version.
3. Repeat and feel free to interchange 1 & 2 after each step, because breaking the product is acceptable, since the public expects it sometimes.
Think about trade tariffs, duty and taxes. They likely just didn't want the headache. I am sure there are a dozen laws that are archaic that could be used against them if they did an international site. Or maybe they didn't want to compete with an american store that was launching?
The Canadian and American music industries are kinda odd. They are seperate entities with totally different takes on RIAA crap. I'm guessing the cost was prohibitive to sell to the states.
Now that puretracks is /.'d, will the music downloads run at a snail's pace? Hopefully not.
I think this is EXACTLY what we need to combat the RIAA. Cheap songs, cheap albums. Not only that, you may find artists putting more top-notch tracks on their albums, since people will likely pick and choose the songs they want.
If more online stores like this opened up, I think we'd see a lot less illegal p2p (not that I care).
Give your kids PHP.
Give me my TI/994A anytime. I was never into the C-64 that much because it seemed like everyone had them and while they did have some pretty amazing graphics at the time, I found myself having to justify the cost of switching systems. I guess it was a nostalgia thing for me, but my TI/994A provided me with more insight about how to program games and work with the peripherals like my handy speech synthesizer and memory expansion box.
The TI had the shape of today's computer, without the juice under the hood. It's a shame they didn't go further with the series, but I guess it wasn't viable.
Parsec, Munch Man... 99er. TI meetings. Oh to be a nerd in the 80's...
Screeners comprise only about 49.847723% of the actual pirated software on the net. It's like this because it's convenient for pirates to snag a copy of the film and use it, before the film is released.
Banning screeners would mean that the industry is starting to cave in from the piracy movement. Is that what you want? Do you want Hollywood to crumble? But wait a minute.
Ten dollars for a bag of popcorn and a pop?
Five dollars for a box of candy?
Maybe there is more here than meets the eye! Maybe it's not that pirates want to ruin Hollywood. Maybe the public is saying somthing to the movie industry about other possible reforms that should be considered.
Like going to the theater when there are a couple of goofs talking through the whole movie. Or when some smelly guys wears flip-flops that are five years old, and sits near you while he adjusts his seat every five seconds.
The whole experience of the movies has declined since the eighties, while a lot of other industries have improved (like the video game industry).
Banning screeners is the way to go, if you want to hurt the little indy film maker, but maybe some smart person will release their films ONLY to the internet, and become the next Bill Gates.
Agreed. I didn't buy any Ebooks because I could tell they were scamming the masses. The fast method of production to consumption meant that it was so very cheap to produce an ebook, and the fact that they didn't drop the price from real books that much, really stuck in my craw. I felt that the publishers were just adept at hiding the real motivation behind ebooks; to change their industry and make it 10x more profitable at the expense of the public. The fact nobody bought into that philosophy by supporting ebooks, is likely a result of karma. :)