Rally Trophy for Mac?

A friend was over and I showed him Ralley Trophy...he go thooked in 20 minutes...his problem is his wife in a MAC fanatic...is RT available for the Mac? **** "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 Dick Schaap (quote approximate)

> A friend was over and I showed him Ralley Trophy...he go thooked in 20 > minutes...his problem is his wife in a MAC fanatic...is RT available forthe > Mac? 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.

"Rob Adams" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:jhdz8.4$[email hidden]... > Nope. Very few (any?) of the games discussed in here run on the Mac. Orever > 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.

On Mon, 29 Apr 2002 11:52:53 -0400, "Strider" <[email hidden]> wrote: SNIPP >OSX is not even backwards compatible with >their own software. > Excuse me? Care to explain that? /petern

That was a joke right? LOL. The last decent game I saw for the MAC was Myst....Just because his wife is a MAC fanatic, doesn't mean he has to be..... -- Biz "Don't touch that please, your primitive intellect wouldn't understand alloys and compositions and,......things with molecular structures,....and the....." - Ash TlgtrProd <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > A friend was over and I showed him Ralley Trophy...he go thooked in 20 > minutes...his problem is his wife in a MAC fanatic...is RT available for the > Mac? > > > **** > "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 Dick Schaap (quote > approximate) > >

TlgtrProd ([email hidden]) wrote on 29 Apr 2002: > A friend was over and I showed him Ralley Trophy...he go thooked > in 20 minutes...his problem is his wife in a MAC fanatic...is RT > available for the Mac? 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

"Peter Nilsson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > 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?

> Yea, older Mac software does not run on OSX (Apple's newest OS). If youbuy > 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...

On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 16:06:31 -0400, "Strider" <[email hidden]> wrote:

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> >"Peter Nilsson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message >news:[email hidden]... >> 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?

Just as I suspected. Another case of misinformation about Macs. 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

Yeah, but can you play any racing sims on it ? -- Ian P <email invalid due to spam> "Peter Nilsson" wrote > > Just as I suspected. Another case of misinformation about Macs. > > 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

On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 22:14:39 +0100, "Ian P" <[email hidden]> wrote: >Yeah, but can you play any racing sims on it ? There ain't a racing sim for the Mac to be found. Unless TuxRacer or Cro-Mag Rally counts :-) /petern

I'm a Mac fanatic, too. TiBook G4, currently. (Actually I dual platform.) But I bought a Winders machine jes fer GPL. It was worth it. Jim TlgtrProd wrote:

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> A friend was over and I showed him Ralley Trophy...he go thooked in 20 > minutes...his problem is his wife in a MAC fanatic...is RT available for the > Mac? > > **** > "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 Dick Schaap (quote > approximate)

They ain't no use to me then ;) -- Ian P <email invalid due to spam> "Peter Nilsson" wrote > There ain't a racing sim for the Mac to be found. > Unless TuxRacer or Cro-Mag Rally counts :-) > > /petern

"Rob Adams" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:8%Cz8.3$[email hidden]... > Happens alla time. Lots of DOS-based programs don't run on Windowsanymore. > Time moves on... 95% of Win9x software runs on WinXP just fine.

"Peter Nilsson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > Do read http://www.apple.com/macosx/ 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.

In article <[email hidden]>, Peter Nilsson <[email hidden]> wrote: > On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 22:14:39 +0100, "Ian P" <[email hidden]> wrote: > > >Yeah, but can you play any racing sims on it ? > > There ain't a racing sim for the Mac to be found. > Unless TuxRacer or Cro-Mag Rally counts :-) Not true the old IRC2 runs on the Mac, and EA's F1 2001 is being ported to the Mac, should be out soon. If you want Rally Trophy ported to the Mac I suggest you have your friend send the company that made it an email suggesting they consider it. Take care. - Loren

"Loren Nerell" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:020520021540224137%[email hidden]... > Not true the old IRC2 runs on the Mac, and EA's F1 2001 is being ported > to the Mac, should be out soon. And soon we will be playing EA's F12002 on the PC.