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| Grand Theft Auto III, V.C. and S.A. now available on Mac by Cian |  | | PC News: Better late than never. | | [View Article] |
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| Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 9:35 pm Post subject: |
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They've actually been on the Mac since last year sometime, just only on other DD services.
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| Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 9:53 pm Post subject: |
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saw the names and stopped reading , gutted that we still arnt much closer to getting a HD collection despite already owning them.
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| Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 11:01 pm Post subject: |
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Oh great, another reason for Mac owners to be smug and condescending.
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| Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 11:04 pm Post subject: |
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...playing games from 10 years ago? Uh, okay.
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| Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 11:04 pm Post subject: |
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SA reviews saying it's laggy as fuck... annoying. Already have the other two on Steam, PS2 and Xbox, not buying them a 4th time.
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| Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 11:05 pm Post subject: |
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| GooberMan wrote: | | ...playing games from 10 years ago? Uh, okay. |
Where's the *slaps forehead* emoticon?
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| Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 11:20 pm Post subject: |
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Goober, you are a knob.
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| Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 12:29 am Post subject: |
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Hey, Mac owners love being hip, trendy, feature-limited, but most importantly always having something new.
Ten year old games totally aren't their thing.
(I hate my Mac, and have regular verbal and physical battles with the thing, but I've played TF2 on it more over the last year than I have on PC so it may be getting in my brain.)
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Well. it kind of suits the Mac way.
Old games for older hardware.
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Sucks to be a Linux fan (I'm not hardcore but I am a hybrid fan but I know gamers who are hardcore Linux fans so it will be a huge kick in the gut to see more games on Mac but not officially on Linux). There's more Linux users than Mac but Mac gets the love.
I still love Windows so Windows+Linux ftw!
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| GooberMan wrote: | | ...playing games from 10 years ago? Uh, okay. |
Fuck I still play 20 year old games.
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... 
Goob's comment was pointing out that it would be hard for even the Mac fanboys to be too smug about only recently getting some very old titles, and not saying that playing old titles is a bad thing.
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This isn't even news.
| Island_Wolf wrote: | There's more Linux users than Mac but Mac gets the love.
I still love Windows so Windows+Linux ftw! |
Yeaaaaaahhh… No. Laughable suggestion.
Also, ew.
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Does not compute, I have good tastes as far as I'm aware (multi-platform ftw!).
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And even though my point was reiterated:
| Gamesta wrote: | | I still play 20 year old games. |
Remember how I was a programmer on the X360 emulation service Game Room? lulz good times.
| Nova Prime wrote: | | Yeaaaaaahhh… No. Laughable suggestion. |
I wholeheartedly recommend a Ubuntu box over OSX. Hell, it even plays more modern games than a Mac thanks to WINE and Cedega/GameTree.
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| Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 12:21 am Post subject: |
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| GooberMan wrote: |
| Nova Prime wrote: | | Yeaaaaaahhh… No. Laughable suggestion. |
I wholeheartedly recommend a Ubuntu box over OSX. Hell, it even plays more modern games than a Mac thanks to WINE and Cedega/GameTree. |
But a Mac also has these :s
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You'd be referring to Cider, which isn't quite the same thing.
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No, I'm pretty sure I'm talking about Wine. Quite a few people use it to run Windows apps. And isn't Crossover just a better GUI for Wine?
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Oh, we've gone to talking about just apps now?
Yes, WINE has been on OSX since forever. Cedega/GameTree and Cider though, while based on WINE, don't stop at just implementing the Windows API. Specifically, they also implement the complete DirectX API. Whereas Cedega (Linux only) is more of a service that anyone can download and run, Cider (OSX) is something they market to game developers to easily bring their code across to OSX for commercial gain. It's quite a bit more full featured and successful than Crossover, which also attempts to implement APIs that are beyond WINE's scope.
So, the point still stands.
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| GooberMan wrote: | And even though my point was reiterated:
| Gamesta wrote: | | I still play 20 year old games. |
Remember how I was a programmer on the X360 emulation service Game Room? lulz good times.
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Remember? I never knew to begin with 
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| GooberMan wrote: | | You'd be referring to Cider, which isn't quite the same thing. |
| G3ck0 wrote: | | No, I'm pretty sure I'm talking about Wine. Quite a few people use it to run Windows apps. And isn't Crossover just a better GUI for Wine? |
damn right it isn't
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Goober, people use ripped Cider wrappers to play other games on OS X too, Cedega style, though I assume it's even hackier than using those tools in supported ways. I'd rather just run VMware or Parallels. Probably. And re: Ubuntu, OS X is a virtual joy to use, no other OS comes close on that front.
| Island_Wolf wrote: | | Does not compute, I have good tastes as far as I'm aware (multi-platform ftw!). |
Windows PCs don't compute.  If you find Windows anything more than (somewhat) functional, you do not have good taste. My main point though was that the number of Mac users towers over the number of Lunix users.
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| Quote: | | My main point though was that the number of Mac users towers over the number of Lunix users. |
| Quote: | | If you find Windows anything more than (somewhat) functional, you do not have good taste |
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