Does It Play On a Mac – Rawr

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

Does It Play On a Mac? – Star Trek Online (Part 2)

Part two of my exploration of Star Trek Online where I look at a different method of running it using a build of Crossover Games made specifically for STO.

Link I refer to in the video:
Forum post with unofficial Crossover Games build

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

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

Does It Play On A Mac? – Unreal Anthology

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

Does It Play On a Mac? – Daggerfall

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.

OS X Leopard Screen Saver Preference Pane Hangs

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: Read more

Does It Play On a Mac? – Neverwinter Nights Diamond

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.

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

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

Does It Play On a Mac? – Trackmania Nations Forever

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!

WWDC 2009 Keynote Recap

Three thumbs up for Apple!
BOOO for AT&T!

Today was the highly anticipated WWDC (apple’s World Wide Developer’s Conference) keynote.  Rumors have been focusing on the iPhone, but in just the first half of the keynote speech, they WOW’d us in true apple form with some interesting announcements.

Wow, I just got finished watching TWiT’s feed and commentary on the WWDC Keynote speech.  WOW.  A lot of very exciting things coming down the apple pipeline.  I took some notes while watching/listening to the cast.

The most anticipated announcement is that the new iPhone will be available on June 19th. It is known as the 3GS.  With the S for SPEED .  Some of the new features are 3 megapixel with video and autofocus, faster speed 7.2 megabit, and a compass.  WOW  32GB for $299 and 16GB for $199 and the old 3G at 8GB will be available for  $99.

The following is a bullet list of what was announced.

MacBook Pro’s
- all MacBook Pro’s have been refreshed
- battery life extended
- non-replaceable battery
- 13″ Unibody MacBook now a Pro
- – Firewire added to the 13″ unibody

Quicktime New
- iMovie like editing

OSX Snow Leopard
- Available in September
- 64 Bit
- 16 Billion Gigabyte Memory ceiling
- Multi core support more efficient
- $29 upgrade $49 family pack upgrade (not confirmed, but that would rock)
- $129 Standard buy (not the upgrade)
- Exchange support in ical, mail, address book, etc (great for business users)
- Snow Leopard will be available for all intel mac

iPhone
- 50,000 apps in the app store
- 40,000,000 iPhones and iPod touches sold
- in 9 months of the app store, 1 billion apps downloaded

iPhone OS 3.0
- more than 100 new features
- cut, copy and paste
- landscape keyboard in all applications
- mms added
- AT&T will support mms later this summer LOL
- message search
- spotlight – search across the phone

- iTunes rent and purchase movies and audiobooks from iPhone
- Parental control on apps and movies etc

- Tethering USB AND Bluetooth
- – AT&T not supported yet BOOO

- support for streaming video and audio HTTP
- autofill
- HTML 5

- robust language support (over 30 languages)

- Find my iphone (??) available to mobile me…
- – it will show you on a web browser where your iphone is  NICE
- – if completely lost you can erase all data on the phone

- support for peer to peer gaming over bluetooth

- hardware protocol support for external devices

- push notifications
- turn by turn using core location

- free for iPhone – $9.95 for iPod touch
- Available June 17 (devs get it today)

iPhone Hardware
- iPhone 3GS (S for Speed for the most powerful, fastest one ever)
- same design as 3G
- OpenGL|ES 2.0 support
- 7.2 megabit HSPDA
- 3 megapixel autofocus camera
- – tap to focus
- – low light sensitivity
- VIDEO
- – 30fps 640×480
- – autofocus
- voice control
- – control things like ipod (“play more songs like this”)
- digital compass
- hardware encryption
- improved battery
- Pricing: $199 16 GB and $299 32 GB plus $99 for the 8GB 3G (non-S)
- Availability: June 19th, 2009

Wow,  kudos APPLE!  The boo for AT&T is that the MMS and Tethering “is coming” LOL

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