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Title: what ever did happen to...
Post by: kode on August 11, 2004, 01:16:59 pm
... that mac port of fs2? I've begun thinking about getting myself a mac, so it'd be nice to know what you know if you know something.
Title: what ever did happen to...
Post by: karajorma on August 11, 2004, 01:25:27 pm
FS2_Open should run on MacOS X IIRC (well maybe not under that name). Taylor is the person to ask though.
Title: what ever did happen to...
Post by: Hippo on August 11, 2004, 04:27:45 pm
*shudders* I'm not going to bash Mac's this time, but i will say that my laptop alone converted a family who was planning on buying a Mac into getting a PC...
Title: what ever did happen to...
Post by: Kamikaze on August 11, 2004, 05:08:57 pm
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Originally posted by Hippo
*shudders* I'm not going to bash Mac's this time, but i will say that my laptop alone converted a family who was planning on buying a Mac into getting a PC...


Personal anecdotes (especially about "converting" when the people being converted probably had no technical background) are a dime a dozen.
Title: what ever did happen to...
Post by: Moonsword on August 11, 2004, 05:10:02 pm
*watches the System Wars gear up for another bitter, flame-ridden round*

*goes and gets popcorn*
Title: what ever did happen to...
Post by: Hippo on August 11, 2004, 05:14:11 pm
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Originally posted by Kamikaze
the people being converted probably had no technical ...


...knowledge :p


They ahd thought that they could buy linux from microsoft :p...:wtf:
Title: what ever did happen to...
Post by: Kamikaze on August 11, 2004, 05:16:42 pm
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Originally posted by Hippo

They ahd thought that they could buy linux from microsoft :p...:wtf:


:lol:

I once heard a story about a middle-aged woman telling her family "Well, Microsoft owns Apple… so I’m sure it has to work." in a Mac store.
Title: what ever did happen to...
Post by: Moonsword on August 11, 2004, 05:40:41 pm
Oh God... rotfl
Title: what ever did happen to...
Post by: kode on August 11, 2004, 06:04:56 pm
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Originally posted by Hippo
*shudders* I'm not going to bash Mac's this time, but i will say that my laptop alone converted a family who was planning on buying a Mac into getting a PC...


oh, trust me, I've got some experience with PC's. about 13 years, at least. I figured I'd try something new for a change.

plus, I heard tv-out works bettar, which would be great seeing as how I have to use a third-party application to get my nvidia card to actually support the tv-out it was said to ship with...

plus, they run unix now, and I seem to get along quite well with that too.
Title: what ever did happen to...
Post by: Cabbie on August 11, 2004, 10:12:00 pm
Used to be a Mac user but switched.  I still think that Mac is a great platform, though. :nervous:

Anyway this might help:

http://www.insidemacgames.com/news/story.php?ArticleID=9931

http://macfreespace.shutupgeorge.com/
Title: what ever did happen to...
Post by: kode on August 12, 2004, 05:22:41 am
meh... icculus port... I would've wanted the flashy fso upgrades... or does that tigital port have bells and whistles?