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Does It Play On a Mac – Rawr

Kumeelyun — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 20:11:28 +0000

Rawr isn’t a game itself, but a tool used to optimize many assets of a World of Warcraft character. A highly useful tool, it doesn’t have a Mac equivalent, so this is my account of trying to get it working on my MacBook Pro.

Link I refer to in the video:
Mono Project
Rawr Homepage

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Does It Play On a Mac? – Star Trek Online (Part 1)

Kumeelyun — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:13:09 +0000

Back again, with my first two-part episode, exploring the new sci-fi MMO “Star Trek Online”

Links I refer to in the video:
Star Trek Online Unofficial Mac forum post
Star Trek Online client download page

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Does It Play On A Mac? – Unreal Anthology

Kumeelyun — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 03:13:22 +0000

This installment looks at Unreal Anthology, the collection of five games from the Unreal/Unreal Tournament franchise.

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Does It Play On a Mac? – Deus Ex

Kumeelyun — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 23:22:29 +0000

For this episode, I check out Deus Ex, the classic game combining RPG elements with a first-person shooter set against a story touching on many major American conspiracies.

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Does It Play On a Mac? – Daggerfall

Kumeelyun — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 02:31:07 +0000

After a short break to update some equipment I tackle Daggerfall, the 1996 chapter of the Elder Scrolls series recently released by Bethesda as a free and legal download.

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OS X Leopard Screen Saver Preference Pane Hangs

TheJoe — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:49:52 +0000

I got a unibody MacBook Pro 17″ recently. I had some issues with that one and I had it replaced with a new one. (There is a lot more to this story and you can read about it on my personal blog.)

I get the replacement unibody MacBook and I do a restore from Time Machine. I had previously installed all my apps from scratch on the exact same Mac before it died. (again see other post) I log in for the first time and I do all my updates. Everything works great! Except for one thing:

Everytime I open my Screen Saver Preference pane… I get the Beach Ball and my System Preferences hangs and I must force quit!

I google and google… Finally I found a fix at the Apple Support Discussions: Screen Saver Preference Pane Lockup thanks swmbuk!

Let me lay out the Symptoms and summarize the fix:

Symptoms I noticed:

Opening System Preferences > Desktop & Screen Saver > Screen Saver caused my System Preferences to crash or beach ball for a good while then crash
I noticed that in my system.log (Console > system.log) there was an entry: “Call to deprecated method ILApertureMediaManager::init. Please update your code to use ILApertureMediaManager::sharedManager:“
When I could navigate in the Screen Saver preference pane and select “iTunes Artwork” it would claim that I had none.
Attempting to install another screen saver would cause the system to hang.
Creating a new admin account and then log in as that account would produce the same results.

The fix summarized: (kudos again to swmbuk)

I got my install dvd’s that came with my MacBook and inserted the second one marked “Applications Install Disk”
Went to Finder and deleted the folder: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/iLifeMediaBrowser.framework
Dowloaded and Installed Pacifist from: http://www.charlessoft.com/
Executed the Pacifist application
With the “Open Package…” dialog in Pacifist, I opened “Installed Bundled Applications” from the disk. (it took a while to extract the packages)
I expanded the “Contents of InstallBundledSoftware.mpkg”
Selected “Contents of iLifeMediaBrowser_v2.pkg” and clicked install.
I had to enter my admin password and some other dialog boxes.
I ran software update and installed “iLife Support 9.0.3″

VOILA! All symptoms resolved

I post this because it took quite a while for me to find a fix that actually worked. There also seems to be several people experiencing a similar issue. I hope this post helps some of you.

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Does It Play On a Mac? – Neverwinter Nights Diamond

Kumeelyun — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 13:49:53 +0000

This time around, I attempt Neverwinter Nights Diamond the Dungeons and Dragons-licensed RPG that includes all the expansions and is estimated to contain over 100 hours of gameplay.

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Does It Play On a Mac? – Free To Play MMOs

Kumeelyun — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:07:02 +0000

There are quite a few F2P MMO’s (Free To Play) out there right now, so this video looks at several to see how they fare on a Mac.

Games attempted in this video:

Mabinogi
Dungeon Runners
Gunz: The Duel
Runes of Magic
Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine

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Does It Play On a Mac? – Trackmania Nations Forever

Kumeelyun — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:11:18 +0000

Realizing I haven’t done any racing games since Carmageddon II, I not only try out an amazingly addictive arcade racer, but one that’s completely free to download and play! No disc required for this one!

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Does It Play On a Mac? – Quake

Kumeelyun — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 07:56:10 +0000

This instance takes an attempt at a classic game that helped define the first-person shooter genre.

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