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[Batcat]

Eric5h5, on April 28th 2006, 12:26 PM, said:

Don't worry, it won't have 3D support, making it useless for games.

Yeah, fully functional virtualization is probably two years or so off. 3-D gaming should be safe until then {famous last words}.

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Oh...well, THAT explains why I've been trying to ban you for a week now, and nothing happens!  Curses! Foiled again!

--Snidely Whiplash

(...oh teh noes! Pennybags is teh gonerz! Curse you, DaveyJJ! ::shakefist::)

[MacProject]

At this point, is the plan to release the game as-is (ie: direct PC port) or will Feral alter the game a little to keep it somewhat current with this year's WRC team structure?  For example, both Mitsubishi and Citroen pulled out of the 2006 WRC season and both teams were heavily featured in CMR 2005.  

Is the Mac release going to reflect this in any way?

[Ari]

MacProject, on May 1st 2006, 05:38 PM, said:

At this point, is the plan to release the game as-is (ie: direct PC port) or will Feral alter the game a little to keep it somewhat current with this year's WRC team structure?  For example, both Mitsubishi and Citroen pulled out of the 2006 WRC season and both teams were heavily featured in CMR 2005.  

I'd be extremely surprised if the Mac publishing license allowed Feral to alter the game contents.  
Surely the company that created the game has secured their copyrights.

[edddeduck]

Ari, on May 2nd 2006, 12:41 AM, said:

I'd be extremely surprised if the Mac publishing license allowed Feral to alter the game contents.  
Surely the company that created the game has secured their copyrights.

Thanks for answering that question, as Ari has stated you cannot change and add different vehicles and sponsors as all of the content has been created and signed off by the original developers legal team. Although we have a habit of adding in a few Mac extra features if possible we cannot stray way from the
original title in terms of content and game-play.

With the question of Citroen, Mitsubishi, Peugeot and other manufactures pulling out of official WRC competition. Kronos are everything but name the official Citroen team running the same WRC car as last year but without Active Differentials. Peugeot have also left WRC but the cars are all being heavily used by private drivers. Mitsubishi have been a fading force in the WRC and they left top class WRC racing in everything but name well before last season.

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Tokyo, December 14, 2005? Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) has announced that it has decided to suspend participation in the FIA World Rally Championship series from 2006.

They missed the 2003 season entirely returned with a development car in 2004 and raced in some but not all of the rallies they then decided to leave the sport halfway through 2005 so the end of the of the 2005 season was less than spectacular. So the last real season IMHO for Mitsu was 2002.

Skoda have also left the WRC and are now run almost as a factory team under the Red Bull moniker. Next year should be more interesting with more teams returning but until the internal politics of the WRC and costs are solved I think we will see more independent "factory" teams like Kronos and Red Bull.

When you get down to it the best car is still the best, the Citroen Xara WRC and after that it is a battle between Ford and Subaru. Makes you laugh when you realise a car that has been mothballed by Citroen as it is to old is still beating the best new cars from the other manufacturers!!

If you wondered yes I am a fan of WRC rally

Cheers,

Edwin

[the Battle Cat]

Batcat, on April 29th 2006, 05:42 AM, said:

(...oh teh noes! Pennybags is teh gonerz! Curse you, DaveyJJ! ::shakefist::)

Yeah, I'm guessing but I suppose Tuncer deleted the graphic after that "German Court Rules..." thread and other posts (yours included), so I went ahead and deleted the BB Code entry for it.  I thought it fell under Fair Use because Mr. Monopoly (or originally Uncle Pennybags) is a worldwide icon, a household word in an image sort of way, plus we weren't using it to make any sort of profit from it.  I took a large 133x135 color image and rendered it into black and white, than reduced the size, and finally smoothed the image with a couple filters and touched it up with a pencil tool at high magnification so it's not like I just kyped a smiley off the Parker Brothers forums.  I figured it was safe enough to use but I guess not.

[Batcat]

Actually I think it does fall under Fair Use. Otherwise most of the avatars on the Net would be copyright infringement.

[WSTE_M]

edddeduck, on May 2nd 2006, 12:19 PM, said:

...

If you wondered yes I am a fan of WRC rally

Cheers,

Edwin

Cool, now I have confidence in the game, as I know you will play it too.

W

[edddeduck]

WSTE_M, on May 3rd 2006, 11:46 AM, said:

Cool, now I have confidence in the game, as I know you will play it too.

W

WSTE_M, on May 3rd 2006, 11:46 AM, said:

All games should have BUILT-IN GUI widesceen support!

Yup - Colin and Fable have full WS support built into the game. Imperial Glory does not due to engine restrictions.

Batcat, on May 2nd 2006, 08:54 AM, said:

......most of the avatars on the Net would be copyright infringement........

Looks innocently the other way

[Batcat]

edddeduck, on May 4th 2006, 03:34 AM, said:

Looks innocently the other way

I won't tell if you don't...

[placy]

Cash68, on February 13th 2006, 01:59 AM, said:

So is it coming out yet?  It's going to be 2007 before we get 2005.

Too late...

http://www.codemaste...itory=EnglishUK



But the classics are still classics...

  

[Marathon4ever]

placy, on May 4th 2006, 10:18 AM, said:

Too late...

http://www.codemaste...itory=EnglishUK
But the classics are still classics...

  

Who cares?  It's not even out yet.  We'll get 2005 before 2007 comes out.  Plus 2005 is still gonna be the best racing game for Mac.

[iRolley]

Marathon4ever, on May 4th 2006, 12:53 PM, said:

Who cares?  It's not even out yet.  We'll get 2005 before 2007 comes out.  Plus 2005 is still gonna be the best racing game for Mac.

It's been so long now... what game are we talking about already?  

[WSTE_M]

edddeduck, on May 4th 2006, 10:34 AM, said:

...Yup - Colin and Fable have full WS support built into the game. Imperial Glory does not due to engine restrictions.
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Wuuuuuu!!! You just had to make sure you had me, ehh ?
Thank you, this is great, when can I preorder ?

W

[edddeduck]

WSTE_M, on May 4th 2006, 04:07 PM, said:

Wuuuuuu!!! You just had to make sure you had me, ehh ?
Thank you, this is great, when can I preorder ?

W

Pre-Order goes live once we have a firm ship date usually 4 to 6 weeks before we ship the game. I will post again in the thread when the announcement is made.

Cheers,

Edwin

[Zachary]

darnit this is taking for ever. I almost bought it for my pc!

I think I will buy toca race driver 3 for pc

And colin mcrae 2005 for mac if it comes out before christmas!

[edddeduck]

Zachary, on May 15th 2006, 04:42 PM, said:

darnit this is taking for ever. I almost bought it for my pc!

We are working hard to get it finished, good news is we will have a MultiPlayer demo as well
as a single player demo.

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I think I will buy toca race driver 3 for pc

And colin mcrae 2005 for mac if it comes out before christmas!

Both good games have fun

Cheers

Edwin

[stutz]

edddeduck,

Does a 1.67 GHz PowerBook with 2 gigs of RAM have a chance in hell of running CM2005 even with graphical settings turned down (now that you are getting closer to announcing a final ship date)?

Stutz

[edddeduck]

stutz, on May 24th 2006, 10:04 PM, said:

edddeduck,

Does a 1.67 GHz PowerBook with 2 gigs of RAM have a chance in hell of running CM2005 even with graphical settings turned down (now that you are getting closer to announcing a final ship date)?

Stutz

My laptop happens to be a 1.67 Powerbook and I would say yes you should be able to play Colin although at this point I cannot say what level of graphics you will be able to run. If you have 2GB and the 128MB card you should be able to run with more that minimum settings although at what level I cannot yet say.

Cheers,

Edwin

[iRolley]

edddeduck, on May 16th 2006, 02:48 AM, said:

We are working hard to get it finished, good news is we will have a MultiPlayer demo as well
as a single player demo.
Both good games have fun

Cheers

Edwin

Will the demos be released before the full game ? You know, just so we can chew on something will waiting for the full meal...

[edddeduck]

iRolley, on May 25th 2006, 10:17 AM, said:

Will the demos be released before the full game ? You know, just so we can chew on something will waiting for the full meal...

Please find answer below (or on page 4 of the thread).

edddeduck, on April 12th 2006, 02:02 AM, said:

Thanks  
We would love to do something like that but unlike an original PC game where you might have a section finished so you can release a demo of that area, a Mac port is converting a finished game so the entire game and demo is finished from the beginning. The only task is to get it running correctly, once the demo is fine so is the full game and vice versa so being able to release the demo first is normally impossible. However we can and normally do release the Demo as soon as we have a finished version.

Cheers,

Edwin

Just to clarify this means the demo is finished and released around the time the game goes GM. GM means Golden Master and refers to the Master disk used in DVD/CD presses to make the thousands of copies you see in the stores. So this means the demo is often available 2/4 weeks before the game hits the shelves due to the delay between making the GM and getting finished units in the stores Worldwide.

Cheers,

Edwin