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Quote: Originally Posted by Momus I was wondering, could the OpenGL updates in 10.6.3 help gaming in OS X? Because I looked at my drivers and the 8600M GT does OGL 3.1 in Windows 7 and only 2.1 in Snow Leopard. It's not a terrifically capable GPU…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Gazoobee Lame. Fake Steve Jobs was never funny IMO and Seinfeld is pretty much the only credit for Charles worth mentioning. This is two bottom feeders doing what they do best. Sadly, the popularity of Apple and…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Momus All Apple has to do is make a gaming desktop and this could actually go somewhere. Apple will never ever release a cheap desktop that is upgradable, it contradicts the strategy they've used throughout their l…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Blastdoor Does the PS3 also use OpenGL? With Mac and PS3 sales both being much better than they used to be, I wonder if more developers might choose to do OpenGL versions of games.... I think I read somewhere that n…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Blastdoor So it sounds like this isn't just some WINE-ish port -- it sounds like they really did do a native Mac port. That's encouraging! It definitely is _not_ a WINE-like port. It's a rewrite of the Source engine…
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AWESOME! This is a great step forward for mac gaming. Now all three, in my opinion, best game companies produces games for the mac. The other two great ones are id Software and Blizzard Entertainment.
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Quote: Originally Posted by smoke_tetsu It has to go through OpenGL either way and the work has to be done whether they write an abstraction layer or port the game natively and use OpenGL directly. Besides, Apple is updating OpenGL in OS X to sup…
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Quote: Originally Posted by smoke_tetsu How is it so far fetched? Other companies like telltale games have done it... it may not even need a total rewrite. Especially since their engine already had selectable APIs for graphics OpenGL just hadn't …
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Quote: Originally Posted by cdyates The ads imply that valve is moving the source engine to the mac somehow. It does not imply anything about an abstraction layer like wine. You made that part up. I didn't mean the ads implied an abstracion …
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Quote: Originally Posted by smoke_tetsu Part of my point is they are probably doing an actual port of their engine rather than using wrapping technology such as WINE. Why else hire Mac engineers to help the lead engineer of source? They where doi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by smoke_tetsu I hate to break it to you but you are the one who doesn't know about game engines. For starters Steam is not a game engine. It's a store front with some community features for chat and multiplayer matchmaki…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Neotyguy40 You know nothing about game engines... Steam, like 99% of all other game engines, runs graphics through an "abstraction layer". This allows them to create their own graphical functions in whatever coding …
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Quote: Originally Posted by 4metta Fixed in order to make it easier to understand for non-gamers. Also two words: dedicated servers. Look it up. It's something console versions of multi player games sorely lack. As a result they are all l…
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Quote: Originally Posted by cnocbui What is all the excitement for? Surely anyone who wanted to play those games would have already purchased them for a different platform. My son has most of these for Xbox and they have all been played to de…
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Quote: Originally Posted by kpluck As others have pointed out, Steam is just a game distribution system. Thinking stuff you bought on the PC through Steam would start suddenly working on the Mac would be like thinking iPhone apps would run on …
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Not to be picky.. But the news title should say something about the numbers only regards the US market. Not worldwide as per assumption.
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pardon my french, but what the heck kind of data is this.. the chart is over just ~*20 days.. if the results are this varied, there really cannot be a conclusion that holds truth for more than a couple of days. I really don't see any way to interpr…
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Quote: Originally Posted by camroidv27 And this relates to Apple how? Apple currently has no netbook. Since this article has no Apple relavance, then it only has one purpose being posted here. Please, focus on Apple products and such. I'm…
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Horrible news. iPhone / iPod touch is all wrong as a gaming device. A step in the wrong direction. Two reasons: 1. Touch interface. No first person / platform game is better with touch interface then with buttons. 2. No graphic acceleration. This…
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Those answer/windows bars will have queues that begins outside the store