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[Bill Ramey]

No One Lives Forever used to run very poorly on my MacBook Pro but now runs well under 10.4.9.  Whereas before even using the cursor to choose menu options was laggy at best, there is no lag now in choosing menu options.  As for gameplay, it too is much improved, and I cannot detect any lag.

I also went ahead and installed NOLF 2 with the same good results.  It would seem that Rosetta has improved enough to make these games playable (with the caveat that I haven't yet played them through to the end).

My system specs are: MacBook Pro 2 GHz, 1G RAM, 128M ATI Radeon X1600.

[Janichsan]

Shouldn't Alice and SimCity 4 also be removed due to existing UBs?

[Mister Mumbles]

True. I'll remove Alice, but not Sim City 4 because the patch isn't final yet.

[alldaveallen]

Tron 2.0

Ran well at very high graphic settings until I got to the "Observation tower" chapter, and since then is now sort of jerky. This may be because there just seems to be more background visual information and eye candy as you go further into the single-player campaign. Still fun, though.  Sorry I can't be more technical.
My computer:
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
  Processor Speed: 2.16 GHz
  Number Of Processors: 1
  Total Number Of Cores: 2
  L2 Cache (per processor): 4 MB
  Memory: 2 GB
  Bus Speed: 667 MHz
Chipset Model: NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT
  Type: Display
  Bus: PCIe
  VRAM (Total): 256 MB

[Smoke_Tetsu]

alldaveallen, on June 24th 2007, 11:26 AM, said:

Ran well at very high graphic settings until I got to the "Observation tower" chapter, and since then is now sort of jerky.

Spoiler

Is that where you have to protect Ma3a by shooting down at virus programs from a tower? If so I had sort of the same problem even on a PowerPC Mac.

[alldaveallen]

Smoke_Tetsu, on June 24th 2007, 06:33 PM, said:

Is that where you have to protect Ma3a by shooting down at virus programs from a tower? If so I had sort of the same problem even on a PowerPC Mac.

NO, Mr. Spoiler Man ...  I haven't gotten that far yet! (I bought it on EBay about a year ago and am just now playing it).  I was in the section last night where you need to to retrieve 3 fragmented emails from library stacks and the game got really slow...  And this is after I had set it to the game's preset "medium" display settings, down from my initial optimistic "high" setting.

[Smoke_Tetsu]

alldaveallen, on June 25th 2007, 09:51 AM, said:

NO, Mr. Spoiler Man ...  I haven't gotten that far yet! (I bought it on EBay about a year ago and am just now playing it).  I was in the section last night where you need to to retrieve 3 fragmented emails from library stacks and the game got really slow...  And this is after I had set it to the game's preset "medium" display settings, down from my initial optimistic "high" setting.

*whoops*    

[alldaveallen]

Smoke_Tetsu, on June 25th 2007, 02:39 PM, said:

*whoops*    

It's all good... I'm actually on that part right now and completely sucking at it. And not just because I am running into the jerky action problem, unfortunately.

[alldaveallen]

alldaveallen, on June 25th 2007, 05:11 PM, said:

It's all good... I'm actually on that part right now and completely sucking at it. And not just because I am running into the jerky action problem, unfortunately.

I'm replying to myself... hopefully this isn't one of those time travel paradox things.  Anyhoo.  

Brief clarification: my comp is a 24" IMac with the 2.16 processor.

Update: Finished the game (on EASY, because I am just terrible with the disc-throwing).  I'd say that graphic performance throughout, on what the game calls "medium" settings (medium resolution, some effects turned off, yadda yadda--I can probably post complete info if necessary) was average or below average. A fair amount of jerkiness. I happened to have downloaded the Quake 4 demo recently, and was shocked at how much more smoothly that game, with its extremely detailed graphics, ran than Tron 2.0, an older game with deliberately "computer-like" graphics.  Hmmm.  Next up, Freedom Force.

[the Battle Cat]

alldaveallen, on June 29th 2007, 10:03 AM, said:

I'm replying to myself... hopefully this isn't one of those time travel paradox things.  Anyhoo.

Your past self had PMed me 4 days ago complaining that you are stalking him in the future.  At first I thought you were nuts but today I see that you knew what you were talking about.

[alldaveallen]

the Battle Cat, on June 29th 2007, 01:46 PM, said:

Your past self had PMed me 4 days ago complaining that you are stalking him in the future.  At first I thought you were nuts but today I see that you knew what you were talking about.

Oh, I ALWAYS will have been about to knowing.  It's my future self that will have always going to be a liar. clear?

[the Battle Cat]

alldaveallen, on June 29th 2007, 04:56 PM, said:

Oh, I ALWAYS will have been about to knowing.  It's my future self that will have always going to be a liar. clear?

Here is what I took from that:  Hindsight is 20-20 and you never know what tomorrow brings.  Is that a close enough translation?

[alldaveallen]

the Battle Cat, on June 29th 2007, 05:49 PM, said:

Here is what I took from that:  Hindsight is 20-20 and you never know what tomorrow brings.  Is that a close enough translation?

Actually, it's probably more like "Hang in there baby, because it's almost the first day of the rest of your life."

[alldaveallen]

alldaveallen, on June 30th 2007, 09:50 AM, said:

Actually, it's probably more like "Hang in there baby, because it's almost the first day of the rest of your life."

or it's a t-shirt that says "Ask me about being my own grandchildren."

[alldaveallen]

OK, anyway...trying to play the Freespace2 Mac port, seems to run fine, but I am on the really really annoying "find 7 navigation buoys in a cosmic storm" mission and I can't continue to look at it without getting a migraine.  So, it runs as well as it ever did on my g4 laptop, which is to say it looks dated but it's still fun (except for the aforesaid mission).

[alldaveallen]

Pegasus, on December 3rd 2006, 02:26 PM, said:

Well, I can tell you right now Gooball just won't work. You can get into the menu, but that's it. As soon as you try to start the actual game it crashes...

Besides, Ambrosia itself says it's incompatible with Intel Macs. Unless you have an older Mac to play it on you're out of luck.

It's too bad that there isn't a UB for it. Works well enough on my PB, but it would look sooo much better on my iMac.

I have been playing it of late on my intel iMac and it seems to work just fine...  Isn't it a question of having the Unity player thingie updated?

[Eric5h5]

alldaveallen, on July 5th 2007, 06:41 PM, said:

I have been playing it of late on my intel iMac and it seems to work just fine...  Isn't it a question of having the Unity player thingie updated?

The Unity player thingie only applies to Web games, not stand-alones (where the player is part of the package and not update-able).  However, Gooball is Universal now and has been for at least a couple of months I think, so that's sorted then....

--Eric

[Arenzera]

Pegasus, on November 12th 2006, 06:34 AM, said:

Jazz Jackrabbit 2
Publisher: ?
- Unplayable. 10.4.1(osx86project.org)

This is simply untrue. On my new 2.2Ghz MacBook Pro, Jazz2 is very playable. The only problem is that some sounds end somewhat abruptly. I'm running Mac OS X 10.4.10.

Kiel

[Janichsan]

I just note that everything between "Jets'n'Guns" and "Myth III" appears twice in the list.

I could also add Fallout 1: works absolutely perfectly (MBP, 2GHz, ATI x1600, 256 MB VRAM, 2 GB RAM, MacOS X 10.4.10)

[Douglas]

Hello!  Here is my input...hope this helps!!!

Douglas






Dungeon Siege
Publisher: MacSoft
Recommended Update 1.2

- Runs extremely well under Rosetta with max settings at 1680 x 1050.
- Tested Single Player, Multiplayer (Gameranger), Mod (Lazarus)...all without any problem.
- MacPro 2 x 2.66GHz Dual-Core Xeon, 1GB Ram, ATI Radeon X1900xt, 20" Apple Cinema Display, OS X 10.4.10