Mac OS X

[benpark]

Oh, man...

Hey, my Mac is great for what I need to do. I don't know what the rest of you do, but I am happy to use the tool that is best for my job.

Some people are argument addicts, it seems.

[John David]

ORIGINAL: benpark

Oh, man...

Hey, my Mac is great for what I need to do. I don't know what the rest of you do, but I am happy to use the tool that is best for my job.

Some people are argument addicts, it seems.

You know, I think your right and I am guilty of that these past few days. I never meant it to even approach this. I have been comming here for 2 years now and never got into anything like this. It just always seems to get this way with Mac and Windows users, I just happen to be both.

I guess I have been quite cranky latley, as I have had an unbelievably rotten last few weeks with my teeth and the dentist's chamber of horrors. I guess all that I have been through and still have to go through has made me very touchy. For this I again apologize.

I hope that whoever might want to next jump down my throat will stop and realize that I have apologized twice. If you choose to carry out your "attack" like carnifex did to me the last time, I hope the rest of you will take notice that I was not the instigator.

I will continue to have any civil discussion about this topic, but i'd rather talk about the real reasons we all come here. It's about the games.

JD

[Mr.Frag]

Hey, like I said John ... let me know when there is a PC emulator that works ... I looked at you game lists, getting there, but light on war games [:(]

I'm not in it for a fight, I just want to run my software without ever having to give Bill Gates another penny. I am actually surprised that there still isn't some kind of emulator, it's not like you don't have the horsepower under the hood, but then again, it's the same problem with linux, emulator just isn't good enough.

As I'll repeat a million times, I've got no axe to grind against Apple *except* that they should have undercut Digital's price on CP/M 3.0 when it came out so DOS would have never existed in the first place. It's the very same mistake IBM made with OS/2. History is funny, it always seems to come back to who slashed their price on something setting the standard for 20 years. I've still got my Digital GEM floppies in a closet somewhere, the begining of it all [:'(]

[benpark]

Ah, the dentist. My eternal nemesis...

[John David]

ORIGINAL: Mr.Frag

Hey, like I said John ... let me know when there is a PC emulator that works ... I looked at you game lists, getting there, but light on war games [:(]

I'm not in it for a fight, I just want to run my software without ever having to give Bill Gates another penny. I am actually surprised that there still isn't some kind of emulator, it's not like you don't have the horsepower under the hood, but then again, it's the same problem with linux, emulator just isn't good enough.

As I'll repeat a million times, I've got no axe to grind against Apple *except* that they should have undercut Digital's price on CP/M 3.0 when it came out so DOS would have never existed in the first place. It's the very same mistake IBM made with OS/2. History is funny, it always seems to come back to who slashed their price on something setting the standard for 20 years. I've still got my Digital GEM floppies in a closet somewhere, the begining of it all [:'(]

Mr Frag, as a fellow Canadian, let me say I'm sorry I let things get out of hand. It as I said before, was never my intention.
When everyone seems to be against you and you seem to be repeating yourself over and over, it seems like one is knocking his head against the wall. After awhile, you get a bit dazed![X(]

Boy we sure as hell can agree about not wanting to give Gates anymore $$. The problem with the emulator you mention , Virtual PC, was bought by Microstif last year, so what that will mean for the future, I have no idea. Maybe they will want to improve it so Mac users will buy more Windows software to run on the Mac!

They say that sometimes good friendships start from after an argument. Well, we sure got the argument part down pat and out of the way so, who knows.[8D]

JD

[John David]

ORIGINAL: benpark

Ah, the dentist. My eternal nemesis...

You being in Brooklyn and all... do you know someone who will break the legs of a dentist...cheap[;)]

JD

[Fred98]

If Marc is around perhaps you can tell us: Uncommon Valour will not run on a MAC under Virtual Windows.

Is this due to the Uncommon Valour code or due to Virtual Windows?

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[benpark]

I've got some "one size fits all" pourable shoes you could use...[;)]

[John David]

ORIGINAL: benpark

I've got some "one size fits all" pourable shoes you could use...[;)]

SOLD!

JD

[Mr.Frag]

You being in Brooklyn and all... do you know someone who will break the legs of a dentist...cheap

Not that I want to get down on dentists, but really ... I have to ask?

Is there a world wide shortage on novicane? Like do they really need to be such stingy b*st*rds with the stuff?

It's like me, I'm sitting there arguing with the last guy ... he's saying there's no way you can still feel that as I bolt right up in the chair in shock from the pain!

Then they go through to whole "you're a moron and all your teeth are gonna fall out" crappy guilt trip ... like come on, I left home to get away from my mother in the first place ... I'm not here to listen to you trying to be her ...

You know, maybe if they were not so abusive and condecending, people would actually go to see them more often instead of waiting till it's far too late.

[John David]

What are you seeing the same dentist as me![;)]

Check this out. I had to have an upper front tooth removed because it was cracked years ago under the gum line and the tooth was already capped from the lower crack from playing hockey as a teen. Natch, Canadian eh!

Now there was a chance that the tooth would splinter under the gum line when she (yes a women dentist, which is cool because I always believed in women as equals), went to yank it out of my face.

Well of course the tooth splintered and she had to pull each splinter out one at a time. now in fairness, she did shoot me up a couple of times, but I could still feel the splinters being yanked. She kept telling me to imagine that I was a women going through labor, so I could deal with what they do during child birth as far as the pain goes! That what I was feeling was just the pressure, not any pain! What the F#*K is she saying I thought to myself as my face is being rearranged!

Now you know how impossible it is to speak when they have both their fists in your mouth with all their instruments, while your face is being vacuumed into that miniature Hoover to slosh up your saliva right!

Well, the only way you can communicate with her or anyone on the outside world is to wave your arms back and forth to get her attention right. Well I'm waving my arms so forcefully that I'm flagging down passing aircraft! Meanwhile, she's killing me!

I have to face more similar things with some back teeth later this month. You can see why I said that I was so cranky before.

It's pressure, not pain your feeling!! Sure, easy for you!!

JD

[Mr.Frag]

First rule: Stay away from women docs ... they always seem to feel that we can take pain just because they get to *enjoy* child birth. I think it's some *ego* thing with them, they have a need to get revenge on men. [:D]

[Fred98]

ORIGINAL: Joe 98

If Marc is around perhaps you can tell us: Uncommon Valour will not run on a MAC under Virtual Windows.

Is this due to the Uncommon Valour code or due to Virtual Windows?

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[Marc von Martial]

ORIGINAL: Joe 98

If Marc is around perhaps you can tell us: Uncommon Valour will not run on a MAC under Virtual Windows.

Is this due to the Uncommon Valour code or due to Virtual Windows?

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I don´t know.

[benpark]

Joe-what Mac and VPC are you using?

I have my old copy of VPC (which is OS9)-not working with my new comp (OS X.xx)., so I'm not much help there.

[Fred98]

It would have been about a year ago. Maybe less.

The big MAC monitors had just been released. I needed to upgrade some parts on my PC and considered a MAC instead – due to the wonderful monitor.

Took my UV CD to the MAC store and the man happily installed Virtual Windows (“VW”) for WIN 2000, onto a G5 with a big monitor.

I then installed UV and it all seemed to go fine.

But the game would not run.

My intention was to test the graphics on the big monitor. My concern was that if the graphics are too good, it might show up graphical flaws in UV - graphical flaws would reduce my enjoyment.

And I have another concern. If you read reviews of VW, there are hints that running games under VW is not such a good idea. VW hogs memory and there is a minor incompatibility in the graphics and sounds. After all, VW was intended to run Windows business software on a MAC.
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[benpark]

I had bad luck with Virtual Windows. Try the Connectix Virtual PC-before I had my PC for games and my G5 for work, I used to run TOAW-ACOW, Sudden Strike, and a few others on my G3 500mhz iMac and VPC.