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Yeah, I saw that one, but threads on the same topic can have different targets in different forums. This'n's about games. They can keep their filthy BIOS talk in the other room.

So who's gonna be the first? The first to install, game and post your findings here.

In related news: Commiserations & commiserations & commiserations. This is going to be rough for some.

Watching The Brad Hole with some interest. I don't see how porting Mac games is going to viable industry – ported games have always been slower, late-coming (and hence apparently more expensive) and often affected by problems that didn't affect the original (mod support, damnit!). This isn't meant to be a criticism of the coders – there is limited time and the time it takes to go from Windows code to release is impressive. But I don't see how that market can exist, even with the inconvenience of rebooting.

Last edited by Zetetic Apparatchik (2006-04-05 12:27 pm)

Zetetic Apparatchik wrote:

problems that didn't affect the original (mod support, damnit!).

Yup you can now use UED (Unreal Editor) for the admission price of a Windows install and all the other editors, map makers and such that have been denied us for so long.

I was thinking "Sweet, that means I can play PC games when I get a MacTel!" But then I realized that there really weren't any PC games I was dying to play. I'm just more of a casual gamer.

Edit: oh, and that other thread mushroomed out of control before I really joined it, so it's nice to have a specific thread on this topic. BTW, they specifically say that they have graphics drivers.

Last edited by akb825 (2006-04-05 2:10 pm)

mo' ron wrote:

A legal copy of Windows still costs hundreds of dollars.

$86 for an OEM copy of XP Home SP2 at newegg.com.

Brad Oliver wrote:

mo' ron wrote:

A legal copy of Windows still costs hundreds of dollars.

$86 for an OEM copy of XP Home SP2 at newegg.com.

Windows XP Home sucks though

But,
http://www.bestbuy.com/site//olspage.js … e=category

Home is $200 there, and $300 for pro (non OEM of course).

However, I can get any copy of Windows going back to 98 free through my school.

Last edited by mo' ron (2006-04-05 2:56 pm)

There's no big difference between XP Pro & Home for consumers.

I think it would depends which way Apple's sales go with this new move.

If more people buy Macs, with the possibility of running Windows, it could mean in the medium-long term, there will be more demand for Mac games.

But, in the short term, the pent-up demand by current Mac users for those PC games will stifle Mac game sales, as those Mac users install Windows and the PC version of those games (my guess is there will be a lot of piracy as a result of this, of those pieces of software).

B.S. wrote:

I'd still need my Mac specific games simply because I don't know how to use Windows. Plus it would probably run Windows just as well as an emulator and PC games would drag horribly.

What are you talking about? This is running Windows natively on the Intel processors in the Intel Macs.

It should run at full speed of a "regular" Windows PC.

I don't see this as anything but hurting Mac gaming. I've got both platforms here and i've always tried to support both when i've had the Mac hardware able to run it but if I had a Intel Mac it would be a tougher choice to buy a Mac version now unless theres better performance on an OSX version. Much of the time the OSX versions of games that I like do tend to be more stable, so that is a benefit there. Then theres the price differences. PC games drop much faster in price than Mac ones and for this reason on a lot of games, I usually wait until a b-day or Christmas before I get Mac versions. Sorry but $50 vs $30 or less is a big price difference for me.

Unless theres gonna be some nice benefit to playing on OSX over Windows then a lot of ppl are gonna have to change jobs coming up .

NightCougar_37 wrote:

Unless theres gonna be some nice benefit to playing on OSX over Windows then a lot of ppl are gonna have to change jobs coming up .

I disagree.

There aren't that many Mac game porters, so only a few of us will be looking to change jobs. ;-)