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Slow Programmer
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Posted: 10th Mar 2010 04:00
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I have never used Steam and have never been a fan of online game distribution whose function is tied to a single company. I may consider it now though. I have slowing been transitioning to OSX and love my iMac. I only use windows about 10% of the time now and don't miss it at all.
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Posted: 10th Mar 2010 04:54
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Steam is good. Its one of the last PC Gamitude bastions in the sea of console hell.

As for the mac, thats great, I just hope that means that new games start coming out for both platforms, as a lot of my friends have defected to the Apple, condeming themselves out of countless LAN parties

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Posted: 10th Mar 2010 10:19
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How can anyone defect really, these days I'm guessing the majority of Mac owners, have PC's as well.

I'm quite happy with that news, means there will probably be a version of Orange Box and CS:Source - then Left 4 Dead etc. The big one for mac though has to be portal, that's so Mac already that it almost felt weird playing it on a PC. The turrets could well look like the next iMac!. Been considering playing through HL2 again, might wait and get it for the mac - make it to 4 platforms I'll complete it on (XBox, 360, PC)


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Posted: 10th Mar 2010 11:33 Edited at: 10th Mar 2010 12:14
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It'll be great if they can get some good games working on Macs with support and everything. I can only dream of playing Fallout 3 on my Mac

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Posted: 10th Mar 2010 14:28 Edited at: 10th Mar 2010 14:29
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Quote: "condeming themselves out of countless LAN parties"

Quote: "How can anyone defect really, these days I'm guessing the majority of Mac owners, have PC's as well."


Eh?

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Posted: 10th Mar 2010 16:01
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Not sure how popular it would be though, if Mac fanboys were interested enough in PC gaming they wouldn't be Mac fanboys in the first place.

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Posted: 10th Mar 2010 16:11
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Quote: "Not sure how popular it would be though, if Mac fanboys were interested enough in PC gaming they wouldn't be Mac fanboys in the first place."


Read up. You can own a Mac and still play PC games. But having a native Steam on OS X make it a hell of a lot more convenient

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Posted: 10th Mar 2010 16:26
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Yeah but you may as well dual-boot windows anyway because half of your steam games (I.e. Grand Theft Auto IV) won't work.

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Posted: 10th Mar 2010 16:50 Edited at: 10th Mar 2010 16:51
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Quote: "if Mac fanboys were interested enough in PC gaming they wouldn't be Mac fanboys in the first place."

Because clearly all mac users are like the people in the ads and extreme fanboys, because how could they not be when they use a mac? There is no other good part to it other than the fanboy part. There are absolutely no mac users in the whole wide world that enjoys gaming.

I'm personally looking very forward to this being a mac user myself, it was pretty much guaranteed after all of the odd imagery Valve released a while back, so it's not the hugest surprise. I like the fact that they're implementing that whatever named technology which allows mac users to play online games with the Windows side; Valve's actually appearing to be trying here, and that's a cool thing.


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Posted: 10th Mar 2010 23:10
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Quote: "Yeah but you may as well dual-boot windows anyway because half of your steam games (I.e. Grand Theft Auto IV) won't work."


Yeah but dunno how to do that.

I've tried running windows off an external HDD but that didn't work.

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Posted: 11th Mar 2010 00:57
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Quote: "Not sure how popular it would be though, if Mac fanboys were interested enough in PC gaming they wouldn't be Mac fanboys in the first place."


O RLY?

I'm a Mac "fanboy" (although I don't use a Mac yet) and I still play games on the PC. And when I finally DO get an iMac I'll use BootCamp and STILL play games on Win7 when I'm not running Final Cut and working on a video project. I can't speak for every Mac user of course, but I can say that the majority of Mac users do still enjoy gaming.

Quote: "You can own a Mac and still play PC games. But having a native Steam on OS X make it a hell of a lot more convenient"


Yerp.

I guess the point I'm trying to make, Aaagreen, is that statements like yours lead to people (like myself) becoming defensive. Just because a lot of people use Macs doesn't mean that they don't like gaming. I'm not even sure why Macs don't support many games. I guess it's that they used an entirely different type of processor that was harder to develop for? Now that they've switched to Intel, though, I hope game development for Macs will increase. If only they'd develop a form of BASIC for Mac...


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Posted: 11th Mar 2010 01:12
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Is it really called Mac gaming if you're using Windows inside your Mac to play the games? Gaming on the actual Mac OS isn't NEARLY as common as on PC.


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Posted: 11th Mar 2010 01:19
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I kinda misunderstood. Aaagreen's statement sounded like he didn't think Mac users were into gaming as much as PC people, but then I saw that he said "PC gaming", not just "gaming". That was my bad.


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Posted: 11th Mar 2010 11:17
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Quote: "I'm not even sure why Macs don't support many games."


Because pretty much all modern PC games use DirectX, which is a microsoft product.

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Posted: 11th Mar 2010 13:24
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Quote: "If only they'd develop a form of BASIC for Mac..."


There's always PureBasic, which is multiplatform, PC, Linux, OSX, and even Amiga. I wouldn't say it was ideal for games, but it does give access to OpenGL, plus it's own systems for sprites and stuff. You won't get the luxuries that you do with DBPro, but if multi-platform is your bag, then it's a good language for that.


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Posted: 11th Mar 2010 21:54
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Quote: "Because pretty much all modern PC games use DirectX, which is a microsoft product."


Oh yeah...I guess I was thinking a lot of them used OpenGL (I've heard that OpenGL is supposed to be better than DirectX, but who knows).


Quote: "There's always PureBasic, which is multiplatform, PC, Linux, OSX, and even Amiga. I wouldn't say it was ideal for games, but it does give access to OpenGL, plus it's own systems for sprites and stuff. You won't get the luxuries that you do with DBPro, but if multi-platform is your bag, then it's a good language for that."


Thanks! I'll have to check it out.


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Posted: 12th Mar 2010 06:13
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Quote: "(I've heard that OpenGL is supposed to be better than DirectX, but who knows)."


That doesn't really make sense, either way. It's not really comparing two types of apples as their APIs differ enough to be apples and oranges. That's akin to saying a car is "better" than a motorcycle. But for what? Driving fast, taking corners, gas mileage, etc.?


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