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Zetetic Apparatchik wrote:

Dual Core Power Mac?

Yeah one of the current Gen ones. 

All I can say to this newz is WooT! glad to see the X1800 making its way to the mac.
Heres hopin a flood of games start appearing after the full Intel switch is done.

Peace \/

I'd love a graphics card better than my 128mb 9800 AGP and also had an ADC port on it, but I just dont see that happening anymore either.

IMG has an article from yesterday saying that MacSoft is posed to announce a "triple A" title sometime in Q1 2006.  I'm looking forward to hearing what it is.

That's what I've got my fingers crossed for.

Sorry, tonight is reserved for Perfect Dark.  Wanna jump in?

Yeah, I could go for some Halo2 on the PC, too.

"Universal Binary"
It should simply be a matter of having two compilers, one for PPC, the other for x86.
Assuming they're using Xcode for development, they can just compile both versions into one app and ship a single piece of software that works anywhere.
There are undoubtedly some CPU-specific bugs that need to be fixed manually since software development is never as easy as it should be, but from WWDC last year, it was my understanding that those kind of problems would be trivial.

Would rather have retail nVidia boards for Mac than loads of overpriced ATI Mac boards. Come on flashing community, lets make some ROMs and port some cards over!

LLEVIATHANN wrote:

I think the only reason we saw HaloPC was because it started out as a Mac/PC game. M$ needs the franchise to help push Xboxes out the door. I highly doubt we'll ever see another Halo in any other form.

MC: So is there any public explanation for why it took this long, then? Is it a logistical thing? Naysayers say MS held [the port] back because they wanted to not plagiarize Xbox sales.

PT: Oh, I think there can be no doubt that MS wanted Bungie to focus on the Xbox version of Halo so that the Xbox version of Halo would be the greatest game that's ever been created. [smile] Now if you take this team and say 'Now I want you to do two platforms', it's gonna be harder than to do just one platform.

There's a couple of levels that need to be identified. First of all, there's NOBODY at Microsoft that I've run into at any time (out of dozens of people I've worked with) that had the least bit of concern, that did not want it to come out for the Macintosh. There was certain talk at the beginning about whether there should be a PC version, but it was never unsure about a Macintosh version. Never.

From the top of the organization to the bottom of the organization... never.

When Microsoft acquired Bungie the decision was already clear at that point - 'We're acquiring Bungie because Halo should be the launch game for the Xbox.' The only question became the timing of the PC/Mac version - not ever separating the Mac version from the PC version. The reasons I'm identifying this is because I've seen a lot of statements out there, 'Microsoft doesn't want do a Macintosh version' - but you know what? They don't care! It's not a threat.

Peter Tamte Interview, July 17, 2002

I'd bet money H2'll get ported. Less $ to Mac than PC, but some, and you know Peter has connections and wants it bad. Decent odds.

Second guess, Destineer's own Starship Troopers, recently out on PC- but that's another extremely demanding title. 2GHz CPU and 128MB DX9 GPU, minimum.

If I were to pick another title then it would be FarCry, followed by HalfLife2.

Far Cry's a great game, but aging and lacking buzz at this point. H-L 2 uses Havok and Steam. H-L 1 failed to make it without those impediments. Unlikely.

It could be possible that OSX86 is easier to code for and have a much better OGL/driver implementation?

Compilers, and no- that's an OS issue, respectively.

Could UT2K7 be OSX86 specific?

Not and still come out on PS3 (Cell).

It doesn't make sense (due to tiny market now) but I wonder how one codes for PCC OSX (RISC) and Intel OSX (CISC). Will the change over be a major break like OS9 and OSX was? Reviewing the iLife'06 specs they haven't been updated to include the new MacBooks. It still lists the G* CPUs. I wonder if the iLife bundled with the MacBooks would install on a G*. I wish I had the time to research it now.

See Ear's post.