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From: Dr Geoff Hone on 13 May 2010 04:17 On Thu, 13 May 2010 08:03:08 +0100, usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk (Woody) wrote: >I have played many 'elite-like' games since, but somehow they never had >the playability of elite, but then elite 2 didn't. >I often think though that it was just a 'time and place' thing. It was >great at the time but the world has moved on. > A bit like Myst, then. Had a great following in the Ed.Psych. and Training world - back in the early '90s. One question is: Has the world moved on, or is it just the hardware? Could say the same about Eve for Macs. I still have copies of Eve and Myst. I think I still have a PC that will run Myst somewhere, and I know that my G4 will run Eve when hooked to the right monitor. Geoff
From: Woody on 13 May 2010 04:54 Dr Geoff Hone <gnhone(a)globalnet.co.uk> wrote: > On Thu, 13 May 2010 08:03:08 +0100, usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk (Woody) > wrote: > > > >I have played many 'elite-like' games since, but somehow they never had > >the playability of elite, but then elite 2 didn't. > >I often think though that it was just a 'time and place' thing. It was > >great at the time but the world has moved on. > > > A bit like Myst, then. Had a great following in the Ed.Psych. and > Training world - back in the early '90s. I don't know if it is a particularly good comparison. Elite was a very good game, whith quite strong depth, and not very good graphics, whereas Myst was a graphically stunning (at the time) adventure game, but really lacked actual depth with quite abstract puzzles. It may have been interesting as a psych tool, but most people I knew who played it got bored and did something else once the interest of the graphics paled. Elite was also less linear than Myst - Myst had no replay value (which is common with quite a few games) > One question is: > Has the world moved on, or is it just the hardware? From mysts point of view, I would say it was just a hardware game, from elites point of view, I think the world has moved on, in that there is more depth to a lot of games than there was to elite. > Could say the same about Eve for Macs. > I still have copies of Eve and Myst. I think I still have a PC that > will run Myst somewhere, and I know that my G4 will run Eve when > hooked to the right monitor. I know nothing about eve, other than a lot of people talked about it a lot some time ago, but that is the first reference I have heard about it in ages. -- Woody
From: zoara on 13 May 2010 05:07 Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > T i m <news(a)spaced.me.uk> wrote: > > > >It's a method of bringing games to the Mac. Stuff like Half Life 2, > > >Portal, Team Fortress, etc. It means a major games producer is > > > taking > > >the Mac seriously for once. > > > > > > > Or just harvesting the final ~10% of the market (assuming every Mac > > owner wanted in)? > > Or perhaps they've seen the way the wind is blowing. "Mac owners must have more disposable income - look at all the extra money they spend to get the same hardware." I'm surprised it didn't come sooner. 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. -z- -- email: nettid1 at fastmail dot fm
From: Peter Ceresole on 13 May 2010 05:21 zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> wrote: > "Mac owners must have more disposable income - look at all the extra > money they spend to get the same hardware." Well of course they do. They have more intelligence, discernment and taste; naturally, they have more money. -- Peter
From: chris on 13 May 2010 06:02
On Thu, 13 May 2010 09:37:08 +0100, R <me32(a)privacy.net> wrote: > Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > >> On Wed, 12 May 2010 11:27:39 +0100, me32(a)privacy.net (R) wrote: >> >> >I must say, I'm a little excited :-) >> >> Client available now, though you wouldn't know it from the Steam >> website! >> >> http://www.joystiq.com/2010/05/12/steam-for-mac-now-available-sort-of/ >> >> http://store.steampowered.com/public/client/steam.dmg > > Nice. I missed it yesterday, but have it now (I haven't run it > yet!). Curiously, there's a script in the app bundle with this in it: > > elif [ "$UNAME" == "Linux" ]; then > PLATFORM=linux32 > # prepend our lib path to LD_LIBRARY_PATH > export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${STEAMROOT}"/${PLATFORM}:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH > fi > > That could be just for game servers though. Nope. They will be releasing a Linux port too :) http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=valve_steam_announcement&num=1 |