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From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 13 May 2010 06:28 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/ You saw my other post about pulling the .gcf files across? Other games are not so amenable - I had the Torchlight demo on Windows already, and it's entirely different from the demo on Mac which is a normal .app bundle. No simple transfer, even the main data file (pak.zip) is different between the two. Cheers - Jaimie -- "You hear someone break into your home. You pull out your chainsaw and crank it up. It makes its very distinctive chainsaw noise; he hears it. What criminal is going to stay in a house with someone that crazy?" -- Home defence with Franklin Hummel, rasfw
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 13 May 2010 06:35 On Thu, 13 May 2010 11:02:07 +0100, chris <ithinkiam(a)gmail.com> wrote: >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 Splendid! That's really excellent news. They're really going to have to fix the Steam UI for the store and library so you can pick "just my platform" lists, it's currently very stupidly done indeed. Cheers - Jaimie -- 220 mail.sessile.org ESMTP Sendmail 8.13.4 ICBM ENABLED ; Wed, 23 Jun 2005 15:04:40 GMT HELO spammers.org 250 mail.sessile.org MAIL FROM:<scumball(a)spammers.org> 550 you have four minutes to say goodbye to your family
From: T i m on 13 May 2010 14:49 On Thu, 13 May 2010 08:03:08 +0100, usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk (Woody) wrote: >> I do feel sorry (in some respects) for the people / trades / Companies >> who become victims of 'progress' like this. > >To some extent, although in this case they didn't really lose their >market, it is a different market. Bound to dilute it though. > They spent a long time trying to get >the older generations to use the DS - it is already very big with the >young - but turns out that oldies don't want to carry round a games >machine, but are happy to play games on somethign they have. Makes sense ... especially if that 'thing' is also supposed to be a phone.. > >I don't think anyone buys an iPhone as a games machine, but it turns out >that it is a pretty good games platform. And you might not then buy say a DS if you have an iPhone? Back on the Steam thing ... I installed it on this Mini last night (10.5) and couldn't run Portal (and it warned me it might not). In fact it's the first time I've had to power off the thing because it had locked solid. The message box couldn't tell what version of Windows it was running on. ;-) This was interesting: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_windows_part3&num=1 Cheers, T i m
From: Woody on 13 May 2010 15:48 T i m <news(a)spaced.me.uk> wrote: > On Thu, 13 May 2010 08:03:08 +0100, usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk (Woody) > wrote: > > >> I do feel sorry (in some respects) for the people / trades / Companies > >> who become victims of 'progress' like this. > > > >To some extent, although in this case they didn't really lose their > >market, it is a different market. > > Bound to dilute it though. > > > They spent a long time trying to get > >the older generations to use the DS - it is already very big with the > >young - but turns out that oldies don't want to carry round a games > >machine, but are happy to play games on somethign they have. > > Makes sense ... especially if that 'thing' is also supposed to be a > phone.. > > > >I don't think anyone buys an iPhone as a games machine, but it turns out > >that it is a pretty good games platform. > > And you might not then buy say a DS if you have an iPhone? Indeed. Too similar to bother with both for most people, especially in the casual gaming catagory. > This was interesting: > > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_windows_part3&num=1 Yes, I would have expected the windows setup to be much further ahead than the unixes for single app performance than it is. -- Woody Alienrat Design Ltd
From: T i m on 13 May 2010 17:27
On Thu, 13 May 2010 20:48:40 +0100, usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk (Woody) wrote: >> This was interesting: >> >> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_windows_part3&num=1 > >Yes, I would have expected the windows setup to be much further ahead >than the unixes for single app performance than it is. Is that the predicted outcome then? Maybe another reason why I don't have any issues with Windows ... I don't use it in many multitasking roles. ;-) I thought I took from the review the Windows graphics drivers were more advanced. Would that fact have any impact on it's ability to multitask? I'll let you know how well (or not) Portal runs on this Mini under XP .... when it finishes downloading. Cheers, T i m |