Around here they do card to purchase M rated games. I got freaking carded to buy GTA: Advance and I had my wife and kids with me at the time. I figured a 5 year old was ID enough...
Apple has already said they won't stop you from running WINDOWS on your Mac. It will be interesting though to see if WINDOWS or LINUX ever get support on a Mac from Apple. I say no, because Apple dosen't have the resources to support WINDOWS, LINUX, or even something like qnx. Maybe a company like RED HAT will offer support for LINUX on a Mac, but I don't see that happening either.
In general, if an app will build for Intel it's just a checkbox to build the universal binary that will run on PPC too.
For older stuff there is Rosetta which will translate PPC to Intel on the fly. It's surprisingly fast and very transparent. Just don't check the box to run the Finder with Rosetta. Once it's in PPC mode it assumes it doesn't need the Rosetta checkbox and gets rid of it system wide! Oops.
The core of OS X was around for decades and in this respect so was linux (sort of). But the desktop, what people think of when they think of a mac, was around since NEXT, and I do believe that predates both Gnome and KDE.
The Desktop experience between NeXT's Workspace Manager and Mac OS X's Finder are vastly different aside from the column view for browsing.
There's no reason to believe that it was hard for them to just do a straight copy of the entire hard drive and burn it on DVD, then look into it further at home and try and make an installable OS out of it.
Yeah, except for the padlocks on the Macs, the fact that they couldn't boot from other media, lack of admin credentials, and the constant hovering of Apple Engineers. I guess you could of plugged in a FW drive and tried to image it off, but odds are you would of been busted. I got busted just trying to take a picture of friends in the lobby so I don't know how successful any would be pirates might be.
That was more hyperbole than anything. Like when penny-arcade showed Gabe playing FF: Crystal Chronicles at stoplights. I don't really play games while driving.
Oh wait, this is slashdot. Everything said here must be 100% literal truth...
It all depends on the game you are playing. I really wouldn't want to play Galaga for 22 hours, but that's how long RE: 4 took me and it was the perfect length for that game.
Some games are super short. I can flip open my DS and crack off 10 rounds of Warioware at a stoplight since each round is only 3 seconds long.
Some RPGs are really long. If something has an enjoyable story to it I can spend 40 hours in it without it feeling like it is a chore.
After just owning Mario DS for a while I picked up WarioWare and Ridge Racer DS yesterday. Both are tons of fun! I can't wait to see some DS users walking around so we can jump into a 6 player, single-card, race in Ridge Racer!
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George Lucas will be pleased...
Around here they do card to purchase M rated games. I got freaking carded to buy GTA: Advance and I had my wife and kids with me at the time. I figured a 5 year old was ID enough...
Apple has already said they won't stop you from running WINDOWS on your Mac. It will be interesting though to see if WINDOWS or LINUX ever get support on a Mac from Apple. I say no, because Apple dosen't have the resources to support WINDOWS, LINUX, or even something like qnx. Maybe a company like RED HAT will offer support for LINUX on a Mac, but I don't see that happening either.
Make that I didn't install it, I saw no reason why it wouldn't of worked.
I booted one from a Fedora Core 3 disk at WWDC. Didn't install, but it booted.
In general, if an app will build for Intel it's just a checkbox to build the universal binary that will run on PPC too.
For older stuff there is Rosetta which will translate PPC to Intel on the fly. It's surprisingly fast and very transparent. Just don't check the box to run the Finder with Rosetta. Once it's in PPC mode it assumes it doesn't need the Rosetta checkbox and gets rid of it system wide! Oops.
Hrm - maybe Office on the Mac is much better than the Windows version. I've been hearing that for awhile, but it's still from Microsoft,
It's far from perfect on the Mac, but I'm always astounded at how much it is better on the Mac than on Windows.
QuarkXPress 6 on Mac OS is a Carbon app, and a nasty one at that.
The "totally re-written" for Mac OS X stuff is not true here.
Hey now, Tempest rocks. So do any number of other early games, although I'm not much of a Space Invaders fan.
The main games played in my MAME collection are Tempest and Joust. They are simple, precise, and fun.
The core of OS X was around for decades and in this respect so was linux (sort of). But the desktop, what people think of when they think of a mac, was around since NEXT, and I do believe that predates both Gnome and KDE.
The Desktop experience between NeXT's Workspace Manager and Mac OS X's Finder are vastly different aside from the column view for browsing.
Erm.
You just pick what kind of key you are using (ASCII, hex, WPA) from the pick list and type it in.
What version where you looking at?
IIRC it was at MS's urging. The change happened very quickly after Apple bought NeXT.
Um, like the summary says, it is.
.mac site and the online Apple store.
It's also what runs the
Agreed. FWIW though, Entourage 2004 uses DAV, not IMAP. Josh
Good point. Myth doesn't have the resource management of the RTS games.
So now I'll call the Myth series my favorite RTT games and just leave Total Annihilation there as my favorite RTS game.
They start out by saying that Myth was an RPG. If you can't tell the difference between a RPG and an RTS game that's just sad.
Myth and Myth 2 are two of my favorite RTS games ever, great play out of the box and tons of cool mods.
There's no reason to believe that it was hard for them to just do a straight copy of the entire hard drive and burn it on DVD, then look into it further at home and try and make an installable OS out of it.
Yeah, except for the padlocks on the Macs, the fact that they couldn't boot from other media, lack of admin credentials, and the constant hovering of Apple Engineers. I guess you could of plugged in a FW drive and tried to image it off, but odds are you would of been busted. I got busted just trying to take a picture of friends in the lobby so I don't know how successful any would be pirates might be.
It uses flash cards for storage. The slots are hidden behind a door under the drive slot.
I read this same article sometime last year on BBC. I figured it would have dropped off the site a long time ago.
Hmmm... I think you just made Nintendo's point for them. Gaming for the sake of the games alone.
Erm... I do believe that post was a joke. Sheesh...
Would you be talking about the "tentacle rape" scene that was cut from the US release of D2 on the Dreamcast?
That was more hyperbole than anything. Like when penny-arcade showed Gabe playing FF: Crystal Chronicles at stoplights. I don't really play games while driving.
Oh wait, this is slashdot. Everything said here must be 100% literal truth...
It all depends on the game you are playing. I really wouldn't want to play Galaga for 22 hours, but that's how long RE: 4 took me and it was the perfect length for that game.
Some games are super short. I can flip open my DS and crack off 10 rounds of Warioware at a stoplight since each round is only 3 seconds long.
Some RPGs are really long. If something has an enjoyable story to it I can spend 40 hours in it without it feeling like it is a chore.
After just owning Mario DS for a while I picked up WarioWare and Ridge Racer DS yesterday. Both are tons of fun! I can't wait to see some DS users walking around so we can jump into a 6 player, single-card, race in Ridge Racer!