Will GPL be available for the Mac?
Their selling lots of iMacs.
Steve
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Marc
> Will GPL be available for the Mac?
> Their selling lots of iMacs.
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> Maybe Papyrus will make it for the clothes iron that Apple stole the iMac
> design from too.
but ZDTV showed the "European clothes iron" which is the "exact" model for
the iMac, it has the same colors, same translucent plastic, same exact knob
design. But this shouldn't surprise anyone because Apple stole the
original Lisa design from Xerox PARC. The Mac faithful will just have to
live with the fact that their new idol is a rip-off of a domestic appliance.
Steve
>> Maybe Papyrus will make it for the clothes iron that Apple stole the iMac
>> design from too.
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But back to the original question: There is/was a petition where you could
vote for more racing sims on the mac (http://www.macracing.simplenet.com).
About 1000 or so votes came in, but Papy still refused. On the other hand,
Thrustmaster got annoyed by so much mail (every 100 votes created one 8^).
You have to live with what's there: ICR2 and NASCAR. If apple sells more
items than it has in the past, Papy will no doubt consider porting GPL
because it should be an easy task. Market share is everything.
It would be interesting how GPL performs on a average 300MHz G3 and 3dfx
card under a PC emulator. Since most of the work is done be the graphics
card, the emulation slowdown factor would be less important.
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>> Will GPL be available for the Mac?
>> Their selling lots of iMacs.
>Sorry Robo,
> Papy has given up on Mac ports for any future sim, it's not worth
>their time for the limited sales to Mac owners. I hate to say it, but
>the iMac would probably not run GPL anyway, no hardware acceleration and
>rather slow to run in software mode. Best of luck, you can still find
>some of the older Papy sims of course. All the best, Mike
Uwe (hoping for a native Linux GPL II ;-)
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I'm a bit of a newbie to Linux, but I'll vouch for the stability and
great networking support. It also happens to run on the same
architecture as Win95/98, which means at minimum a new user interface
is required and perhaps a few other tweaks?
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> >> Will GPL be available for the Mac?
> >> Their selling lots of iMacs.
> >Sorry Robo,
> > Papy has given up on Mac ports for any future sim, it's not worth
> >their time for the limited sales to Mac owners. I hate to say it, but
> >the iMac would probably not run GPL anyway, no hardware acceleration and
> >rather slow to run in software mode. Best of luck, you can still find
> >some of the older Papy sims of course. All the best, Mike
Jon
- Eric
FWIW, I've used both PCs and Macs, so I hold no grudges either way, it's
simply a matter of intelligent marketing.
Kurt
> - Eric
> >But, hopefully if iMac sales are good they
> >will support the PPC Mac's again, this time using 3Dfx.
> How are IMac sales going to help things? It's slow by today's ***
> standards, has an ATI RageIIc chip soldered into the motherboard, and no
> expansion slots to add a 3Dfx or any other 3D card. While the IMac may
> look kinda cool, it's certainly not going to convince companies to start
> making Mac ports of games.
> - Eric