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From: Woody on 14 May 2010 10:36 On 14/05/2010 15:08, T i m wrote: > On Fri, 14 May 2010 14:32:19 +0100, chris<ithinkiam(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> Now, however, at no extra cost to me (other than the games themselves) I >> am able to play > > (some) > >> games on my current hardware. Everyone wins. Why bother to put (some) in there? There isnt a platform made that can play all games, so it isn't really needed. -- Woody
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 14 May 2010 10:49 On Fri, 14 May 2010 15:10:44 +0100, chris <ithinkiam(a)gmail.com> wrote: >On Fri, 14 May 2010 14:42:13 +0100, T i m <news(a)spaced.me.uk> wrote: > >> On Fri, 14 May 2010 14:19:18 +0100, chris <ithinkiam(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>> but >>> I'm like Jamie I like to have my desktop ready and waiting for me the >>> same >>> way as I left it. >> >> So do I , it just happens 3 mins after I press the button on the >> back. (it used to be on the front ... <mutter> stoopid Apple Mini >> <grumble>). Click the mouse button for wakeup. Use the menu for sleep. Tada. >>> I usually have several terminals open, Firefox with lots >>> of tabs open and several other apps too. >> >> Ok, (why?) > >Because with my work it takes several days to work through problems and >when I get back to it from one day to the next I can continue my thought >process where I left off. Yup. In my case it's half a dozen open emails, several word-processing docs, several spreadsheets, a bunch of browser tabs, Skype, at least one set of text notes, and whatever else. >>> Being able to sleep/hibernate my >>> machine constantly is a great help. Constantly having to reboot the >>> machine, relaunch all the apps and get back to where I was could easily >>> take 10mins or more. >> >> Because 'back to where you were' is obviously something you need, like >> people wanting a particular homepage etc. > >No. The 'place' is a thought process or a mindset: my desktop is a >reflection of that (ah, that explains the chaos :) ). If it were as simple >as a homepage there'd be no problem. Just so. Cheers - Jaimie -- My swerver room, my patch panels. By the time they figure out why none of the ports on their floor box work anymore I'll be done, dusted and down the pub with a pint of something brewed with yeast that was smarter than they are. -- Matt S Trout, asr
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 14 May 2010 10:53 On 14 May 2010 13:40:13 GMT, zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> wrote: >Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: >> On 13 May 2010 09:07:16 GMT, zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> wrote: >> >> >I'll be mucking about getting my Portal saved game from my virtual >> >machine over to Steam/OSX over the weekend. Will be reading people's >> >experiences here with interest. >> >> Mine are in >> >> > C:\Games\Valve\Steam\SteamApps\jaimievandenbergh\portal\portal\SAVE\ >> >> and work fine when copied into >> >> > /Users/jaimie/Documents/Steam >> > Content/jaimievandenbergh/portal/portal/SAVE/ > >Fab, that works. Helpful as my VM doesn't seem to want to start up and I >didn't want endless fiddling to try to get it running. Last time I >touched it (according to my saved games) was August, so it could be >anything (but probably Snow Leopard). > >Only problem is having all the Steam data in ~/Documents... If, in >theory, I backed up my documents folder to someone else's disk over the >Internet, I'd be backing up a lot of data I didn't need to ;) Now you see why I make a ~/Documents/Jaimie's Docs/ folder and back *that* up! I did think the same when I found the Steam Content folder, but not for long enough to remember what you're backing up to me. >> You saw my other post about pulling the .gcf files across? > >I did, I was just too lazy and/or scared. I just clicked the "download" >button and let it get on with it... Electron waster! Cheers - Jaimie -- "Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." -- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo Inc., 1989
From: T i m on 14 May 2010 11:02 On Fri, 14 May 2010 15:36:45 +0100, Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: >On 14/05/2010 15:08, T i m wrote: >> On Fri, 14 May 2010 14:32:19 +0100, chris<ithinkiam(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >>> Now, however, at no extra cost to me (other than the games themselves) I >>> am able to play >> >> (some) >> >>> games on my current hardware. Everyone wins. > >Why bother to put (some) in there? There isnt a platform made that can >play all games, so it isn't really needed. Well my point was even with the advent of Steam on the Mac it still doesn't represent the range of games available to the PC (looking at that as a direct comparison re the topic in hand rather than 'games on any platform' as I thought you would realise). So, Chris was always able to 'play games' on his Mac and now he can play a few more, hence the 'some'. ;-) HTH, T i m (And I thought you weren't interested? Yes I know, not in Steam or those sorts of games ,<sigh>) ;-)
From: Woody on 14 May 2010 11:15
On 14/05/2010 16:02, T i m wrote: > On Fri, 14 May 2010 15:36:45 +0100, Woody<usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> > wrote: > >> On 14/05/2010 15:08, T i m wrote: >>> On Fri, 14 May 2010 14:32:19 +0100, chris<ithinkiam(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >>>> Now, however, at no extra cost to me (other than the games themselves) I >>>> am able to play >>> >>> (some) >>> >>>> games on my current hardware. Everyone wins. >> >> Why bother to put (some) in there? There isnt a platform made that can >> play all games, so it isn't really needed. > > Well my point was even with the advent of Steam on the Mac it still > doesn't represent the range of games available to the PC The number, don't know about the range. but yes, that much is pretty obvious that having steam released last week doesn't mean that every game available on the PC is now on the mac, so it seemed an odd thing to post, unless you had a specific axe to grind! > So, Chris was always able to 'play games' on his Mac and now he can > play a few more, hence the 'some'. ;-) > HTH, No, Not really! that much was already known by him and everyone else so I guess mentioning it was some kind of dig for some reason. I don't know why but if it made you happy so be it! > (And I thought you weren't interested? Yes I know, not in Steam or > those sorts of games ,<sigh>) ;-) I love games.I don't play that many but I just really hate steam. I have only used it for two games and it seems to cause a big faff that didn't seem to have a need. I bought half life 2, couldn't install it for a while as the serial number was printed badly, changed PCs, had a problem with that, had loads of updates all the time on that computer for steam that I wasn't even the slightest bit interested in, and when I recently went to play it again recently it wouldn't accept my username / password for steam, wouldn't let me play the game on the other account I made for the other game (umm.. call of duty, MW2) as the serial was in use, but wouldn't let me know why my username wouldn't log in unless I sent them a photocopy of the box / cd and serial number. Screw that, I just wanted to play the game! Fallout on the other hand, install the disk, play it for 4 months -- Woody |