Tetris and some clones of it had this thing. The orginal game looked like sales figures in 123. The other Tetris clone I remember was just endless pages of random numbers.
Rogue had this too. It made a fake command prompt open (abeit one that didn't accept any commands).
I've also heard that a certain version of Minesweeper has this, where hitting Escape would make it go down to the taskbar and say Excel instead of Minesweeper.
A while back I downloaded the Linux port of Raptor: Call of the Shadows. After installing, it kept spitting out errors saying I needed some specific version of SDL that was older than the one I have.
So what did I do? I created a symlink to the old version from the new one - essentially, tricking it into running the newer SDL as if it were the older version.
Doom 3 isn't slow because of Aqua using resources. In fact, Aqua doesn't use any resources while a game is playing (or you aren't doing anything) - run Activity Monitor on the dock to check it out.
Doom 3 for Mac is slow because of code/driver differences between x86/Windows and PPC/OS X. nVidia and ATI took a lot of time before release to make Doom 3 run well - but only for Windows. In fact, Doom 3 requires 10.3.6+ because that has the only video driver capable of running the game at all.
When IE 7 comes out and all the Joe Average people start using it (via auto updating, or the new computer they bought, or whatever), they're gonna see the finally-added features and think, "Wow, look at these new things Microsoft created! They're amazing!" because they've never used anything but IE. Microsoft thus gains mindshare for nothing.
Many were behind USB, but it wasn't going much of anywhere. Apple makes it *default* on the iMac, whilst removing serial/ADB ports, and the industry notices.
Oh yeah...and don't let the small marketshare fool you - Apple has a lot of influence.
Apple isn't a big customer for them, and Apple's requirements have never been a big priority.
Heh, and I told my dad to sell his Freescale stock over the Apple switch.:D
The 7448 (the model you're thinking of)
Nitpicking, but shouldn't it be 7458? The currently sold Powerbook chip (I looked it up) is the 7457B. The first PB G4 was 7410, and the second was 7451.
Freescale isn't looking to be speeding those things up in the foreseeable future.
No? What about the 7457B or whatever they're calling it? With the 90nm production, 1MB L2, 667MHz bus (redesigned, with a HyperTransport equivalent), dual-core capability, and probable 2GHz speeds?
I have successfully run WinXP Pro on a 350Mhz Pentium 2 with 96MB of RAM... that is below the specified requirements, but it ran just fine.
It's not below the requirements. Those are Pentium II 2333 and 64MB.
I got something similar. It's a no-name (CompuAdd...wtf?) clone of an old Thinkpad. 25MHz 386, 4MB RAM, 80MB hard drive, 10" B&W LCD. Mine has a built-in trackball with keyboard keys labeled "M1" and "M2". It has no PC Card slots, which pisses me off because I just got a hold of a 16MB expansion card. Right now I have DOS 6.2 and Windows 3.0 on it. It's actually faster than my P4 running Linux. Typically I use it to type on my bed, and to play Rogue and Nethack. I've also run Wolf3D on it...except for the lack of color, it's great!
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This tetris game is quite important, indeed, because corporate users need to slack off.
Rogue had this too. It made a fake command prompt open (abeit one that didn't accept any commands).
I've also heard that a certain version of Minesweeper has this, where hitting Escape would make it go down to the taskbar and say Excel instead of Minesweeper.
So what did I do? I created a symlink to the old version from the new one - essentially, tricking it into running the newer SDL as if it were the older version.
It works perfectly.
Those don't count the Apple dev box noted in this article, hence, no OS X on Intel in there. That's what everyone wants to see.
That's an iBook G3. Apple hasn't sold those for almost two years.
Also, you can (in 10.3+) open a finder window, and click the little eject logo next to the CD on the left side.
Doom 3 for Mac is slow because of code/driver differences between x86/Windows and PPC/OS X. nVidia and ATI took a lot of time before release to make Doom 3 run well - but only for Windows. In fact, Doom 3 requires 10.3.6+ because that has the only video driver capable of running the game at all.
I also don't notice any speed increase.
NVIDIA 7167, FX 5700, Linux x86.
When IE 7 comes out and all the Joe Average people start using it (via auto updating, or the new computer they bought, or whatever), they're gonna see the finally-added features and think, "Wow, look at these new things Microsoft created! They're amazing!" because they've never used anything but IE. Microsoft thus gains mindshare for nothing.
Eh? I've run win2k on even less than that. The performance would be fine on said machine.
The G5 tower is a work of art but Steve only provided two hard drive bays.
Wrong. Jonathan Ives only provided two hard drive bays.
The LC and LC II were awful machines. But the LC III was much faster, the LC 475 even better still. But the first two killed the reputation.
Many were behind USB, but it wasn't going much of anywhere. Apple makes it *default* on the iMac, whilst removing serial/ADB ports, and the industry notices.
Oh yeah...and don't let the small marketshare fool you - Apple has a lot of influence.
Uh....Firewire is on every Mac.
As for USB, note that while it's "an x86 standard," it had little shown interest until Apple adopted it.
Except that there was no G5 in the case to begin with, in this story.
Heh, and I told my dad to sell his Freescale stock over the Apple switch.
The 7448 (the model you're thinking of)
Nitpicking, but shouldn't it be 7458? The currently sold Powerbook chip (I looked it up) is the 7457B. The first PB G4 was 7410, and the second was 7451.
No? What about the 7457B or whatever they're calling it? With the 90nm production, 1MB L2, 667MHz bus (redesigned, with a HyperTransport equivalent), dual-core capability, and probable 2GHz speeds?
Is Freescale just bullshitting us?
The PowerBooks use 1.5GHz and 1.67GHz G4 CPUs. Apple has never offered those before the current PowerBook line.
This happens every once in a while...tons of misplaced comments, and all that stuff is always Anonymous Coward.
Ah! This must be the latest cookie-cutter troll. Was posted with Linux in place a few days back.
Really, the problem is that Broadcom makes the most common 11g chipset, and they don't provide squat.
You mean how Windows 2003 updates Windows Media Player?
I have successfully run WinXP Pro on a 350Mhz Pentium 2 with 96MB of RAM... that is below the specified requirements, but it ran just fine.
It's not below the requirements. Those are Pentium II 2333 and 64MB.
I got something similar. It's a no-name (CompuAdd...wtf?) clone of an old Thinkpad. 25MHz 386, 4MB RAM, 80MB hard drive, 10" B&W LCD. Mine has a built-in trackball with keyboard keys labeled "M1" and "M2". It has no PC Card slots, which pisses me off because I just got a hold of a 16MB expansion card.
Right now I have DOS 6.2 and Windows 3.0 on it. It's actually faster than my P4 running Linux. Typically I use it to type on my bed, and to play Rogue and Nethack. I've also run Wolf3D on it...except for the lack of color, it's great!
Gimp 2.0 brought CMYK support.