Holy Cow… Â Gratuitous Space Battles is now available from Red Marble Games, for the Macintosh…. I’ve played, and purchased the PC version, including DLC… Â So hopefully the DLC will soon show up on the Mac Side…. The only drawback seems to be at this point, that it’s not available via Steam/SteamWorks… Â (The Red Marble site, […]
Time Machine is very boolean in it’s operation. Â It either was successful or failed. Â So if there is a single file that it can’t backup, it aborts it’s current backup, and shuts down until the next backup cycle. Â This isn’t exactly an optimal solution. Â Other Backup software (eg Retrospect) will log an error on a […]
Here is some interesting facts from the Steam (May 2010) Hardware survey that includes Macintosh hardware…. Percentage of Macintosh systems ~ 8.7% Mac OS X 10.6.3 ~6.95% Mac OS X 10.5.8 ~1.40% Mac OS X 10.6 ~ 0.33% That exceeds the percentage (6.95%) of Vista 64 bit systems, […]
After delivering ports of two The Chronicles of Riddick game to the Mac, Virtual Programming plans to bring Supreme Commander 2 to the platform later this year. I loved Total Annihilation, and Supreme Commander is considered by some to be the unofficial spiritual sequel…. Â So I am looking forward to see this on the Macintosh….
Well, Apple has finally decided enough is enough, and publicly sent another Salvo towards Adobe’s broadsides…. Â And Adobe might just be happy about this one. Apple makes hardware video decoding available to developers In 10.6.3, Apple has now made a new “Video Decode Acceleration Framework” available. Â What does that mean? Â Adobe’s number one reason why […]
Here’s a close look at the Steam for Macintosh announcement, and what we can expect in the future. Look here … Steam for Mac dissected « The Mac Gamer.
The register is discussing a study that claims that Steve Jobs was wrong, when he stated: Adobe Flash is Buggy Littered with Security Holes and is a CPU Hog According to tests from the Streaming Learning Center – an online media consultancy that conducts public seminars on the delivery of net video – Flash is […]