Saturday, 11 July 2009
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Tuesday, 23 June 2009
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| HELP!!! Guest 03:23:50 |
| | Who can reach rank of commodore in 3d Pinball, help me, please!!!
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| EA coming back to Mac and nobody cares? Poldy 03:19:08 |
| | Is Aspyr still around?
They did the ports of Madden and Tiger didn't they?
Mac sales are up but will that help mac gaming, especially when people
can Boot Camp Windows?
Or just get consoles?
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Friday, 13 February 2009
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| too much video for Spectre VR Bob Ball 18:41:54 |
| | I found the Spectre VR on Amazon still in the original box, and cheap,
and thought I'd try an old favorite.
My wife's iBook G4 with OS10.4 will load it, but it won't run.
It complains that I need 256 colors or less, and the iBook won't drop
below thousands of colors....
...although on second glance, I see that 256 colors is greyed out on the
display panel.
Does that suggest it might work on an external monitor? Or is there some
other workaround, perhaps using ResEdit?
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If you want to think positive thoughts, surround yourself with positive people.
If you want to email me, eliminate the negative.
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Tuesday, 3 February 2009
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| Best games with a Mac port that doesn't suck? Jamie Kahn Genet 08:04:31 |
| | No offence, but I've had awful luck with Mac games since OSX - support
is quickly abandoned, patches are buggy (if any ever appear), expansions
fail to appear, etc, etc. Sim City 4 and CivIV for Mac are two very sore
points for me.
What's the current list of must have Mac ports that will run under
10.5.5 on an Intel Mac? Or am I better off sticking with with Boot Camp
and Fusion?
TIA,
Jamie Kahn Genet
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If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
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Tuesday, 27 January 2009
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| MacWorld's 'The best Mac games of all time' Jamie Kahn Genet 22:12:19 |
| | <http://www.macworld.com/article/138428/2009/01/macat25_games.html>
Some pretty good choices IMO. Marathon would be my pick of classic Mac
games, with Escape Velocity not far behind.
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Monday, 26 January 2009
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| Call Of Duty win XP vmware fusion Guest 19:37:02 |
| | Hi, has anybody got Call Of Duty on a Mac working. My vmwqre does not
recognise the copy protection of the DVD. The app just quits after
displaying the intro splash screen.
Jo
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Tuesday, 20 January 2009
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| COD 4 Schrodinger 20:59:31 |
| | Well, as always I shied away from taking the plunge with this one as I
didn't enjoy the demo and it looked too "consolified" to be any good.
I took delivery of it on Tuesday and, although I finished it last night it
really blew me away.
I'm sure you've all read reviews elsewhere and to be fair the only fault I
could find was respawning; so unless you actually moved to the next trigger
point, you could end up standing there shooting until your ammo ran out to
no effect.
I particularly enjoyed the AC130 and Pripiat levels.
The AC130 was especially good in bringing home the immense superiority of US
air power in current conflicts. Pripiat was probably the best "on the
rails" stealth mission I've played.
I think this is the closest you will get to a real interactive movie with
technology as it stands?
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Wednesday, 31 December 2008
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| MacHeist are giving away free Mac apps for Christmas Jamie Kahn Genet 01:23:44 |
| | ...including a very cool game - Enigmo 2. See the following link:
<http://givingtree.macheist.com/>
Regards,
Jamie Kahn Genet
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Monday, 29 December 2008
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| Does anyone have a spare copy of The Sims: Unleashed? Jamie Kahn Genet 18:27:32 |
| | Darned if I can find it anywhere and it's the only expansion I'm
missing. I just don't know what happened to my copy - I bought them all
back in the day.
If anyone would like to sell their copy I'd be very interested. It just
seems such a waste to have to buy The Complete Collection for one
expansion *grumbles*
TIA,
Jamie Kahn Genet (who lives in New Zealand, but hopes that won't faze
anyone cause a CD will be very cheap to send and I don't need the box).
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Friday, 26 December 2008
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| Anyone got Mac classic Mac emulation running well on their Intel Mac? Jamie Kahn Genet 01:15:20 |
| | Despite switching to DOSBox and VMware's Fusion with WinXP to handle my
classic gaming needs, there are still a bunch of classic MacOS games I'm
desperate to run on my Intel Mac.
I've tried and failed to get Ballisk and SheepShaver running. Mini vMac
runs but has a nasty, nasty habbit of corrupting disk images opened in
both it and OSX.
*sigh*
Has anyone had any sucess? Why is classic Mac emulation so way behind
other emulation efforts? With Amiga emulation running it's surprising
classic Mac emulation is so far behind 
TIA,
Jamie Kahn Genet
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Saturday, 20 December 2008
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| Three more very decent Mac software holiday specials for a total of four. Jamie Kahn Genet 17:24:41 |
| | FYI:
"Ambrosia's 15th Anniversary Holiday Bundle Sale features a collection
of six games for only $19, a $123 value! The package, which can be
purchased from now till midnight on Dec. 24, includes the Ambrosia
best-sellers Apeiron, Redline, Bubble Trouble, Darwinia, Aki Mahjong,
and SketchFighter.
Get your trigger finger ready:
<http://www.ambrosiasw.com/xmas08>"
Also Freeverse have:
"a special holiday sale on all of our Mac and PC games (and other
software) in the Freeverse store <http://www.freeverse.com>. For a
limited time (through December), we're cutting 50% off everything with
coupon code "JARED"!"
A cool freebie:
"Lugaru is a cult classic, indie video game that was created by David
Rosen when he was in high school. It is available for Mac, Windows, and
Linux. Since its launch, it has been sold for $19.95 without exception —
until now!
This Christmas, Wolfire is giving it away for free!
All you have to do to have your free copy emailed to you on Christmas
Eve is join this Facebook event
<http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=51467499866> and join the
Overgrowth Facebook Page
<http://www.facebook.com/pages/Overgrowth/39924081634>. Don't open it
until Christmas Day! Make sure you're a fan of the Overgrowth Facebook
Page, and be sure to invite your friends to this event as well!
More details at the Wolfire Blog
<http://blog.wolfire.com/2008/12/get-a-free-copy-of-lugaru/>."
Plus I've already mentioned:
MacHeist are giving away free Mac apps for Christmas including a very
cool game - Enigmo 2. See the following link:
<http://givingtree.macheist.com/>
If anyone's aware of any more great Mac software holiday specials please
post them here. Being more broke than usual this year I'm really
appreciating all these holiday bargains popping up 
Regards,
Jamie Kahn Genet
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Wednesday, 10 December 2008
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| Is Punkbuster broken for the Mac? Jamie Kahn Genet 19:11:00 |
| | I can't get it to work under Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory I'm on a
mid-2007 24" iMac running 10.5.5.
Uggg... Punkbuster just seems such an awful, awful idea when they can't
be bothered to update it for anything but Windows (so it seems).
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Sunday, 16 November 2008
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| Re: Death of PCs? Nope, Now It'sThe Death of Consoles Andrew 03:07:23 |
| | On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 08:23:38 -0800 (PST), NV55 <nvidianv55@mail.com>
wrote:
<other hogwash snipped>
"Only 15 percent of the next-generation consoles ever sold will ever be connected to a network ... The vast majority of consoles will never be plugged into broadband by 2012," St. John said, citing a report from IDC.
So how comes there are about 12 million XBox Live users on a console
base of about 24 million units?
What a complete load of tripe.
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| Left 4 Dead: Ramboing newbs Jonah Falcon 02:15:41 |
| | I just got a lesson in what happens when you have teammates who Rambo in
Left 4 Dead.
Let's just say it's not pretty. Ugh.
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| Weak and Steam Les Steel 00:33:41 |
| | I really think Valve are going to have to review their pricing in the UK
(and possibly elsewhere).
I was going to buy left 4 dead through Steam with the 10% discount, but
have worked out it's going to cost at least 30 (US$45 at $1.48 per )
before any VAT added. I have just ordered the game from play.com on disk
for 23 delivered.
If they don't review pricing, I envisage some may revert to ordering the
game on disk for at least 10 cheaper (depending on vs$ rates). If we
ever to get to a 1:1 rate, there's no way I'm paying 45 for a game.
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Les
Chuck Norris' hand is the only hand that can beat a Royal Flush.
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| Left 4 Dead - Enough content for a full price game? Schrodinger 00:30:57 |
| | Played the demo a few times, both single and multi player.
The single player isn't as much fun as a zombie mod for HL2, but the multi
player is good. Lots of team work, zombies that act very like those of Dawn
of the Dead/28 days later etc.
I'm having problems with lag though and sometimes shoot teammates (although
less than they shoot others according to the stats). Maybe it's inevitable
with so many fast moving objects at once?
Whilst it's fun I'm not sure it warrants $45 to buy it. It does not seem to
have anywhere near the replayability of, say, TF2 or any number of free HL2
mods (Insurgency, Zombie Panic, Zombie Stress, Zombie Master etc.)
That's my 2cents.
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| Re: Fallout 3 Vista 64 won't run Nonymous 00:26:16 |
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"sillyputty" <karmictaragem@2die4.com> wrote in message
news:01db54ae-92d6-4d9f-917f-c1377ac27c41@u18g2000pro.googlegroups.com...
Anyone else having trouble running FO3 on Vista 64? I get as far as start a new game and it crashes. Tried checking 'run as administrator' and WinXP SP1 compatibility. My laptop doesn't have the greatest specs (Intel T5750, 4 gig RAM, 350gig HD, Intel 965 Express chipset) but still should run on low video settings. I set graphic settings for best performance (makes Vista look like XP!).
Runs fine for me on my Vista 64-bit desktop, 4GB ram. Maybe your laptop's
video is missing some feature that the game requires?
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Saturday, 15 November 2008
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| Left 4 Dead: too good at Expert now Jonah Falcon 23:36:38 |
| | Need to do the rest of the missions in No Mercy, where it gets even harder.
Need more scenarios, like that cornfield one.
Need PvP, where I can be a Hunter or a Tank...
I preordered on Steam - I want it... NOW....
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| Any possibility to play HL2 without Steam? Michael Pachta 23:32:58 |
| | Hi everybody,
today I had the idea of playing Half Life 2 again. I did not play it for
a couple of months.
I started Steam and now I've been waiting for at least half an hour for
Steam to complete updating itself. Currently is says "21%", but this
figure didn't change within the last 15 minutes.
So how can I play HL2 without waiting for Steam to complete its update
process? I want to play HL2 and not Steam. Can I kick Steam off my hard
drive in order to play HL2 whenever I want and not being dependent on
Steam or Valve? I paid for the game so I want to decide when to play.
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| Re: Windows 7 ( er, I mean Vista R2 ) Noman 20:17:53 |
| | On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:58:39 -0800 (PST), johns <johns321@moscow.com>
wrote:
While the author is largely clueless, his main point that Windows7 may
be just updated Vista is correct. Of course he considers that as a
negative, which is something infoworld has been saying for a while,
and that makes less sense today that it ever has.
Vista x64 is stable enough where the major retailers (Best Buy, for
instance) are providing Vista x64 Home Premium as the default OS for
laptops equipped with 4GB RAM. It is also selling in huge numbers.
Everything works unlike what the popular opinion (mostly formed by
those who never used Vista past July 2007) or the Apple commerials
say.
Windows 7 to Vista would probably be a smaller jump than what WinXP to
Win2000 was.
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Noman
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| Dead Space Prequel Animated Movie Rms 13:13:09 |
| | Haven't seen a mention of this, so a heads-up for those interested in the
game: Deep Space: Downfall is an animated prequel movie to the game, 74min
long. The animation appears to be a mix of cgi and standard handdrawn
characters against backdrops, about average quality for what you'd see in an
animated tv show, and the voicework is good.
Is it worth a movie rental? Unless you intend to play the game, probably
not, but if you are this will get you from the planet onto the ship carrying
the artifact, and introduce some of the crewmates. Just judging by this
movie, System Shock 2 (as well as The Thing) are heavy influences. Quite a
bit of gore and cursing.
rms
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| Re: AMD launches 'Shanghai' hoping to rebuild confidence Legion 09:12:07 |
| | On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:17:28 -0800 (PST), sillyputty
<karmictaragem@2die4.com> wrote:
Meh..Opteron chip
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