Armed Assault for MAC

[Ghost 40]

I found this very interesting link regarding Cider. Check out the link to find out more. In summary Cider would allow a PC game to run on a mac. So with Cider it would be possible to have one Game disc, that can run on both Windows and Mac OS systems. Sounds like a better way then doing the Boot camp route.

Cider

[coderdfox 0]

cant beat them, join them

[Espectro (DayZ) 0]

Too bad Macintosh (who was way ahead of PCs until 1994), have used it's time from 1995 to keep up and adapt with Microsoft and the PC, where Microsoft has used it's time to develop.

We have seen this very clearly ince Windows 2k and with Windows XP. We will see it even more clearly with Vista.

RIP Macintosh.

[chipper 0]

Yeah Macs are not good for gaming. Only professional editing etc...

[kegetys 2]

Too bad Macintosh (who was way ahead of PCs until 1994), have used it's time from 1995 to keep up and adapt with Microsoft and the PC, where Microsoft has used it's time to develop.

Yeah, this vista presentation video demonstrates this clearly  

[chipper 0]

Too bad Macintosh (who was way ahead of PCs until 1994), have used it's time from 1995 to keep up and adapt with Microsoft and the PC, where Microsoft has used it's time to develop.

Yeah, this vista presentation video demonstrates this clearly  

ROFL

[VISTREL 0]

I thought current gen MACs could run software designed for PC.

[Espectro (DayZ) 0]

I don't get it... What's wrong with it?

[TopCover 0]

they used the audio of a vista presentation.....and showed a OSX desktop

[norsu 180]

Current MacPros beat PCs price/performance-wise. Just check the stats and try to make a PC with same components and same price (essentially it's a PC, only the OSX is makes it a Mac :P). But when it comes to 1000$/€ gaming machine, PC is still the king.

[GBee 0]

Too bad Macintosh (who was way ahead of PCs until 1994), have used it's time from 1995 to keep up and adapt with Microsoft and the PC, where Microsoft has used it's time to develop.

We have seen this very clearly since Windows 2k and with Windows XP. We will see it even more clearly with Vista.

Most of the features promised for Vista were dropped, what remains is a Windows with features copied from OSX and Linux, Opera, Firefox etc. In reading reviews and summaries of the changes between XP and Vista I could find very little (if anything) which wasn't already available elsewhere.

Edit: Cider is from the same company as Cedega which does the same job of emulation for linux. Hopefully the desire of publishers to make their games work on the mac will also benefit the linux gaming community. The linux community is certainly growing faster than the mac community.

[JdB 151]

I've been using Linux (Kubuntu) the last 1,5 months now, and if they developed good support for all games, and support for Photoshop CS (going to be possible with CrossOver Office 6, but I'd rather see Adobe developing it themselves) and 3DS MAX, I would never touch Windows again.

Last week my CMOS battery died on me, so I put a new one in. Windoze gave me an "NTLDR is missing" error, and Linux still worked flawlessly, so I was able to repair the Windoze install with it

[alx 20]

Interestingly, the demo for Microsoft Flight Simulator 10 (FSX) has been reported to run just fine on a Mac. Possibly equally as good as on a PC, and possibly better since the following link reports it only on a Mac laptop.

http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard....&page=6

[24Gamer 0]

just looked up the cost of that laptop tho, Å1,400, you get a much better PC for that price, im talking Dual 7900 SLi

[j w 0]

Dual 7900 SLi

No motherboard has 4 PCI-X and is SLI.

If there is, please link me to it

[Straw Dog 0]

First Commodore then (maybe) Macintosh. And the sad thing about it is that we (the public) would probably have far more advanced computers today if it wasn't for some bad marketing stunts in the Commodore department (long story).

Amiga had multitasking abilities way back in 1985 due to a clever multiprocessor solution. Poor ol' Windows + x86 cpus have never had real multitasking until (kinda) today with dual core systems. It's all about marketing and that means that sometimes the best products die for the wrong reasons. I laugh at the fact that we're looking at ridiculous speeds today due to a one-lane cpu solution. So scream your lungs out but when or if the Mac dies, another fine product goes to waste.

[walker 0]

Ah The Amiga

Best OS there ever was.

Proper multi tasking unlike what we see on windows or Macs it was even better than Unix.

You never saw the hour glass as you do in Macs and windows.

My computer was doing a massive Lightwave render and I could still type up college report in Final Writer the word processor.  I still have one of Amigas in the attic.

And the OS could run a full colour multi tasking sound and all the bells and whistles off a 750 K flopy drive and few megs of ram

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga

Kind Regards Walker

[24Gamer 0]

Dual 7900 SLi

No motherboard has 4 PCI-X and is SLI.

If there is, please link me to it

The 7900 is a single GPU card, the 7950 however, is the dual GPU card, so two 7900's in SLI would only require two PCI-E slots

btw i saw a 7900 on eBay for Å185, pretty cheap

[j w 0]

Dual 7900 SLi

No motherboard has 4 PCI-X and is SLI.

If there is, please link me to it

The 7900 is a single GPU card, the 7950 however, is the dual GPU card, so two 7900's in SLI would only require two PCI-E slots

btw i saw a 7900 on eBay for Å185, pretty cheap

No, each 7900 requires two PCI-X spots, the fan is so huge. Freaky huge!!!

[Guest Ti0n3r]

I think and hope that they'll keep their focus on the PC

[RichUK 2]

Well I work for a software company that produces "Integrated data protection for networked storage and open-system envioronments".  

Our software runs on all common UNIX and Linux "flavours" as well as Windoze and Mac OSX.  Although I now have a different technical management role, I was a technical specialist for them for a number of years, and I can assure you that there is little chance of Mac OSX or boxes that can run it disappearing!

In fact, Darwin (the core of OSX) is basically derived from FreeBSD (a form of Linux), with the nice user-friendly Mac front end on top.  There are rack mount XServes and XRaid units which a lot of businesses are now using in a Storage Area Network (SAN) with XSan in conjunction with Network Attached Storage (NAS) ...and they are very good!

The Mac has always been king in the graphic processing and publishing markets, for a lot of reasons, although most of the orginal Mac-based applications are now also available for Windoze.  There are more high end solutions of course, from Silicon Graphics (SGI) running IRIX (a "flavour" of UNIX), and others.

Apple are doing quite nicely, thank you, probably due to the iPOD and related products, but also due to the new life brought in via OSX and new Intel-based boxes.

Well what about gaiming?  Good question.   Macs can be excellent with graphics and video, but I do not proffess to know just what the capabilities/benchmars would be of a new OSX box running:

1.  A high-spec 3D game ported to native OSX.

2.  A PC game running on a Mac under whatever Windoze emulation.

(I do not work for a gaming company)

I have a number of Macs that I use, both at home and for work, including a 17 inch PowerBook G4 laptop, which can run XP software under Virtual PC (unfortunately non of my Macs are the new Intel chip variety).

I also have many other boxes, including a dual-core 4.2 GHz PC with dual XFX 7800 GTX cards in SLI, so I do have some idea of the standards needed to be achieved for a high spec game.

... Yes.  I would dearly love for more modern games (especially Armed Assault! to be considered for porting to run on both Mac OSX and Linux, but I have no idea if it will happen (and I am not holding my breath).

When I have time, I might try to get OFP running on one of my Macs, to see how well it performs, but ArmA would be a completely different story...

[mooncaine 0]

I use a Mac because that's what my office provides. It rocks for graphics, video and audio work. Rock-solid stable. Don't miss Windoze at all.

But when it comes time to run Armed Assault, I'll boot this MacBook Pro into Windows XP or Vista -- no emulation -- unless someone comes up with a better way. Wouldn't want emulation layers to slow down the slaughter. I just hope ArmA will run on it, since I won't have the option to change any hardware on it -- it's not my laptop.

[Placebo 29]

I can say with almost certainty there will not be a mac version.