I already use ScummVM to play Day of the Tentable, Monkey Island 1-3, Fate of Atlantis (SO AWESOME), but I'm primarily talking about Age of Empires 1+Rise of Rome, and the Star Wars X-Wing and Tie Fighter series...Shadows of the Empire, Force Commander, GTA III, etc.
i tried twice so i could play counter strike, half life 2, age of empires 3, and PC warcraft and stracraft, which i have for mac anyway, and since my friend lent me windows xp sp2, i did everything by the book, and it took over my computer. windows got rid of the other partition. and now i find out that the windows disk he gave me isn't sp anything.. ill wait till its part of leopard..
i tried twice so i could play counter strike, half life 2, age of empires 3, and PC warcraft and stracraft, which i have for mac anyway, and since my friend lent me windows xp sp2, i did everything by the book, and it took over my computer. windows got rid of the other partition. and now i find out that the windows disk he gave me isn't sp anything.. ill wait till its part of leopard..
OUCH.... Clear proof that Windows is one big virus. Sorry to hear of your troubles. Maybe try again with something you know FOR SURE is XP2? Half Life 2 is well worth the trouble, IMHO, believe me.
I would because quick books for macs sucks. My boss just got a macbook because he feels like he needs to learn OSX. He's a diehard pc guy who really knows that platform well and got XP up and running on his mac without any problems besides having to remap a key on the keyboard. I was pretty impressed with how well XP ran on his machine.
LOTR: Battle For Middle Earth 2 is a pretty nice game ... Not too complex yet has wide range of interesting elements, fluid, intuitive interface, some pretty graphics depending on how good your graphics card is (should run nice at Medium settings on your Intel Mac x1600s). Put it on your BootCamp list
The campaign mode is very short though (the Good side campaign is only like 8 missions). However the "skirmish" mode lets you try a whole bunch of different army styles (Elves, Men, Dwarves, or Isengard, Mordor, etc) and wide range of maps (Mordor, Mt Doom, Minas Tirith, etc...)
I would rather use virtualization but it would probably need to run graphics well. A classic style environment for Windows would be great because classic supports good hardware acceleration. I really wouldn't want to dual boot as I like to share files between Mac and Windows processes and I don't want to give Windows the honour of having its own partition - a deletable, resizable drive image is better.
I used Parallels to install XP on my new iMac. It felt dirty, but now I don't have to buy another version of QuickBooks or buy Dreamweaver.
Cool 8) As I understand it the graphics are not virtualized yet (access to GPU that is). How is the graphics performance and snappiness running QuickBooks and particularly Dreamweaver in Parallels? Also, was it hard to set up the Network thingy so you can share files between the Windows session and Mac OS X?
Well... it's snappier than any other Windows computer I've used, but I think the fastest I've used was a PIV 2.something with 384 megs of RAM on a laptop HD.
I haven't put QuickBooks on it yet as my partner wants to get the books straightened out before moving them off of his laptop.
I'm sorry that I wasn't clearer, but I don't have Dreamweaver. I use MS Visual Web Developer Express as it's free and lets me edit the HTML, unlike iWeb. It was quite an annoying deficiency to discover when I was trying to put PayPal shopping cart buttons on my site by the next day. A friend with bootleg FrontPage saved me that time, but I wanted a permanent, legit solution.
It was easy to setup the network. I don't remember any hiccups there. I made an alias to the PC shared folder on my OSX desktop.
I have 1.5 gigs o' Ram in my iMac so I allocated a full 512 to Windows.
Heh. Any web designer primarily using Dreamweaver would throw up at the sound of "MS Visual Web Developer Express"... No offense Also FrontPage is the work of the Devil, I tell ya!!
Heh. Any web designer primarily using Dreamweaver would throw up at the sound of "MS Visual Web Developer Express"... No offense Also FrontPage is the work of the Devil, I tell ya!!
I've found that I'm using the features of Dreamweaver that make it Dreamweaver less and less. It's so much more efficient to code the stuff with the assistance of a few common snippets.
I'll definitely be installing Windows on my Mac Pro for Unreal Tournament 2007 and its modding suite:
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Already did. To play:
Battlefront 2
Empire at War
Godfather
TombRaider Legend
Call of Duty 2
and all my old school PC games...all of which run beautifully. My MacBook Pro is the fastest Windows machine I've ever used.
Battlefront 2... OK, kinda fun...
Tomb Raider Legend ... Just started playing it... on my PC
Empire at War... somehow I just don't have the IQ to know what the hell is going on!!
Old School : scumm vm . 'nuff said. Indiana Jones 4 [fate of atlantis] was surprisingly bloody good.
http://www.scummvm.org/
Originally posted by sunilraman
Originally posted by MovieCutter
Already did. To play:
Battlefront 2
Empire at War
Godfather
TombRaider Legend
Call of Duty 2
and all my old school PC games...all of which run beautifully. My MacBook Pro is the fastest Windows machine I've ever used.
Battlefront 2... OK, kinda fun...
Tomb Raider Legend ... Just started playing it... on my PC
Empire at War... somehow I just don't have the IQ to know what the hell is going on!!
Old School : scumm vm . 'nuff said. Indiana Jones 4 [fate of atlantis] was surprisingly bloody good.
http://www.scummvm.org/
I already use ScummVM to play Day of the Tentable, Monkey Island 1-3, Fate of Atlantis (SO AWESOME), but I'm primarily talking about Age of Empires 1+Rise of Rome, and the Star Wars X-Wing and Tie Fighter series...Shadows of the Empire, Force Commander, GTA III, etc.
i tried twice so i could play counter strike, half life 2, age of empires 3, and PC warcraft and stracraft, which i have for mac anyway, and since my friend lent me windows xp sp2, i did everything by the book, and it took over my computer. windows got rid of the other partition. and now i find out that the windows disk he gave me isn't sp anything.. ill wait till its part of leopard..
OUCH.... Clear proof that Windows is one big virus.
The campaign mode is very short though (the Good side campaign is only like 8 missions). However the "skirmish" mode lets you try a whole bunch of different army styles (Elves, Men, Dwarves, or Isengard, Mordor, etc) and wide range of maps (Mordor, Mt Doom, Minas Tirith, etc...)
I used Parallels to install XP on my new iMac. It felt dirty, but now I don't have to buy another version of QuickBooks or buy Dreamweaver.
Cool 8) As I understand it the graphics are not virtualized yet (access to GPU that is). How is the graphics performance and snappiness running QuickBooks and particularly Dreamweaver in Parallels? Also, was it hard to set up the Network thingy so you can share files between the Windows session and Mac OS X?
I haven't put QuickBooks on it yet as my partner wants to get the books straightened out before moving them off of his laptop.
I'm sorry that I wasn't clearer, but I don't have Dreamweaver. I use MS Visual Web Developer Express as it's free and lets me edit the HTML, unlike iWeb. It was quite an annoying deficiency to discover when I was trying to put PayPal shopping cart buttons on my site by the next day. A friend with bootleg FrontPage saved me that time, but I wanted a permanent, legit solution.
It was easy to setup the network. I don't remember any hiccups there. I made an alias to the PC shared folder on my OSX desktop.
I have 1.5 gigs o' Ram in my iMac so I allocated a full 512 to Windows.
...I use MS Visual Web Developer Express...
Heh. Any web designer primarily using Dreamweaver would throw up at the sound of "MS Visual Web Developer Express"... No offense
Originally posted by k squared
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I installed Windows XP Pro on my new MBP 2 GHz three days after I got it.
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Originally posted by sunilraman
Originally posted by Guartho
...I use MS Visual Web Developer Express...
Heh. Any web designer primarily using Dreamweaver would throw up at the sound of "MS Visual Web Developer Express"... No offense
I've found that I'm using the features of Dreamweaver that make it Dreamweaver less and less. It's so much more efficient to code the stuff with the assistance of a few common snippets.
I'll definitely be installing Windows on my Mac Pro for Unreal Tournament 2007 and its modding suite:
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that's it.