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Topic: Mac Gamin'
d0mino
Posts: 2283
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
Just got a bunch of new Quad G5 + 23 inch Cinema HD at work (/gloat) want to put some LAN games on for everyone, any suggestions? Thinking Q4 + UT2k4 ...
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Nailbomb
Posts: 1902
Location: Melbourne, Victoria
is mac playmate still around on the macs? may not have lan functionality though :)
Raven
Posts: 1478
Location: Melbourne, Victoria
Quake 3. Why bother with 4, it was crap.
Hashy
Posts: 2968
Location: New South Wales
Warcraft 3, um, that puzzle game with the apple logo, that's a great game...

I beat it but it's still fun
reso
I can't read
Posts: 3909
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
Enemy Territory! It's even free. Need at least 10 people for a decent game though.
Skitza
Posts: 7310
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
Mac and games in the same sentence is not cool mang.

I used to play this old school game on some old old school macs with Crystals in it... you had to fly around and get them or something or other, was the best game back then....
Lynx
Posts: 398
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
que exo
Raven
Posts: 1480
Location: Melbourne, Victoria
Warcraft 3, um, that puzzle game with the apple logo, that's a great game...


Haha. Yeah. *mumbles*photoshop :(
exo
Posts: 7726
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
que exo

Thup?

Gaming on G5s? Nasty. Yeah, go with the suggestions above. Hope you got a good deal on the Quads though, cinema displays are sexy.
d0mino
Posts: 2284
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
G5s are gr8. The new intel (Mactel?) processors they are sticking in the Macbooks SUCK COCK. Matey at work got one three weeks ago and has replaced it three times, turns out the mactel proccessors dont work with Adobe Creative Suite products (photoshop, indesign, illustrator) well at all. And the damn thing keeps swallowing CD's, constant crashes, sooo many problems.

Thats why we upgraded before the mactel processors hit the towers cause they suxxor the coxxor.

Raven
Posts: 1481
Location: Melbourne, Victoria
There's nothing wrong with the Intel processors. It's the fact that you're running those applications under Rosetta, so of course it's going to be slow as.
exo
Posts: 7727
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
I just said that G5s bite the proverbial for gaming. For Power-PC native apps of course the G5 is going to be better, you're emulating a different processor environment in real-time to run the older apps. Did you ever use VirtualPC and see how slow that was?
demon
Posts: 2223
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
dark castle & lode runner.
Crizane Tribal
Posts: 1168
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
LOL Mac gaming.




























LOL.
simul
Posts: 176
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
macs + lan:

call of duty 2
quake 4
neverwinter nights
ut2004
civilization 3
battlefield 1942
c&c generals
diablo 2
warcraft 3
WoW
quake 3
halo

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basically anything that isn't Half-Life based (and stuff that hasnt been ported yet) is available for mac , only slowdown on the g5's is cause they put s***ty raedons in em by default :)

turns out the mactel proccessors dont work with Adobe Creative Suite products (photoshop, indesign, illustrator)


That is just adobe working its ripoff magic to make everybody buy CS3 when it comes out, rather then spending a few weeks making a universal patch for CS2.



d0mino
Posts: 2285
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
well it sucks donkey balls. i would understand it if cs3 was out... but there is no solution atm for someone who has forked out a brazillion dollars for a mactel.
Dan
Posts: 7185
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
but there is no solution atm for someone who has forked out a brazillion dollars for a mactel.
Sure there is - Install Windows on it.
WhiteWolf
Posts: 2345
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
that cool game with the paper airoplane. :D
masta_blasta
Posts: 761
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
dark castle
beyond dark castle
glider
loderunner
marathon
maccricket
loderunner
happy weed
spaceward ho
maelstrom
and the greatest
dinosaur discovery

...I had a very sad childhood.
d0mino
Posts: 2286
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
spaceward ho sounds pretty good.
Skitza
Posts: 7311
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
maelstrom is the motherf***ing bomb!
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