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"Here we are on a planet moving and spinning though space at 500 miles per
second...and look...my beer stays right there in the glass! Ain't that just
the neatest thing?" - Bill 'Spaceman' Lee interviewed by*** Schaap (quote
approximate)
Nope. Very few (any?) of the games discussed in here run on the Mac. Or ever
will. It's just too small a market for the game developers.
Even though Steve Job's is trying to tell potential consumer's otherwise. If
you're a gamer do not buy a Mac. OSX is not even backwards compatible with
their own software.
SNIPP
Excuse me? Care to explain that?
/petern
"Don't touch that please, your primitive intellect wouldn't understand
alloys and compositions and,......things with molecular structures,....and
the....." - Ash
No, and the chance of it ever being so is virtually nil. That's not to
say you won't get *some* driving games - I believe that Driver and
Carmageddon 2 have been ported - but niche sims like GPL or RT have a
hard enough time on the PC, and the Mac games market is much, much
smaller.
--
"After all, a mere thousand yards... such a harmless little knoll,
really" - Raymond Mays on Shelsley Walsh.
The GPL Scrapyard: Back again! http://www.btinternet.com/~gplscrapyard
Yea, older Mac software does not run on OSX (Apple's newest OS). If you buy
a new Mac I read it comes with a dual boot so you can run new and old
software. OSX is based on Linux. Clear enough?
Happens alla time. Lots of DOS-based programs don't run on Windows anymore.
Time moves on...
>> Excuse me? Care to explain that?
>Yea, older Mac software does not run on OSX (Apple's newest OS). If you buy
>a new Mac I read it comes with a dual boot so you can run new and old
>software. OSX is based on Linux. Clear enough?
Older Mac software does run perfectly well on OS X. No need to dual
boot as OS X runs a Classic application support layer. It's almost
seamless. I have found two (2) classic applications in the last 12
months that didn't work in classic mode and required a reboot into Mac
OS 9.
OS X is not based on Linux. It's based on BSD UNIX. You get all the
unixy stuff like Apache (yeah, THAT webserver), MySQL, sendmail, bind,
ipfw, ssh etc. if you swing that way.
Do read http://www.apple.com/macosx/
/petern
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Ian P
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"Peter Nilsson" wrote
/petern
> ****
> "Here we are on a planet moving and spinning though space at 500 miles per
> second...and look...my beer stays right there in the glass! Ain't that just
> the neatest thing?" - Bill 'Spaceman' Lee interviewed by*** Schaap (quote
> approximate)
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Ian P
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"Peter Nilsson" wrote
95% of Win9x software runs on WinXP just fine.
Ok, so I didn't have my facts quite right, sorry. But I'm not interested in
getting a Mac any time soon anyway. If it ran all the games I own I might.
