WWDC 2007

fatcatfatcat Mizzou Icrontian
edited June 2007 in Science & Tech
some interesting things going on at WWDC....can you say games on a MAC!?

http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/11/steve-jobs-live-from-wwdc-2007&

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  • fatcatfatcat Mizzou Icrontian
    edited June 2007
    some more pics
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited June 2007
    Now that games are binary compatible, expect a flood.. It was always having to port to PowerPC that was holding people back - economic return on porting bajillionty lines of code to a small market segment platform = poor
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited June 2007
    Yep. Having to port to BSD on OGL apps wasn't a big deal. PPC was a kick in the gonads for software, though, mostly because PPC was %$%#ing terrible.
  • fatcatfatcat Mizzou Icrontian
    edited June 2007
    Brian, did you watch the video of WWDC on www.apple.com yet? Leopard is looking very nice!!
  • macdude425macdude425 Mr. Roger's Neighborhood
    edited June 2007
    I cringe at the thought of putting Leopard on my G4.

    I don't want to know how slow it will cause my machine to be.
  • GrayFoxGrayFox /dev/urandom Member
    edited June 2007
    I can't wait for E3 to see what other developers jump aboard.
    macdude425 wrote:
    I cringe at the thought of putting Leopard on my G4.

    I don't want to know how slow it will cause my machine to be.

    If your card supports core image and quartz im sure it will run quicker since they would have compiled it on a newer version of GCC.

    If not lol imagine the cpu overhead X_X.
  • macdude425macdude425 Mr. Roger's Neighborhood
    edited June 2007
    Core image is a no go on my machine. I have a Rage Pro 128.
  • GrayFoxGrayFox /dev/urandom Member
    edited June 2007
    macdude425 wrote:
    Core image is a no go on my machine. I have a Rage Pro 128.

    Ouch. Your best bet would be to get a old radeon 9500/9600/9700/9800 for the pc and flash it to the mac version.
    edit: Looks like you can get a mac G4 version of the Radeon 9800 for around $100 with $20 shipping or a G4 radeon 9600 for about $80 on ebay.
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