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Apple at Game Developers Conference

updated 12:15 pm EST, Sat March 10, 2001

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Apple will be sponsoring six sessions at this year's Game Developers Conference (GDC) held March 20-24th in San Jose. Sessions will focus on game development for MacOS X and Apple's Developer Technical Support Staff will be present to run the sessions. The presentations include such topics as 2D and 3D graphics, 3D Modeling and Rendering Techniques, Motion Capture and Character Animation Techniques and Making Money with Mac Games.

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Heavy Hitting???

Lets see if Apple puts some weight behind this market for once...

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Its in its best interest

I think AAPL is very serious with OS X. Standby for some very serious market share capturing. The Wintel era is slowing losing grip. People want something better now...they're bored with Wintel, no matter how cheap it is...

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AGREED

What better than the beauty of Aqua, usability of Macintosh, and POWER of Unix???? I think OSX is about to shock everyone...especially Billy Gates....but then again, he's already probably worrying, trying to get his piece o' sh*t WinXP out.......

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Games are #1 for sales

I've always thought that games would be the #1 thing that could/would sell more Macs. That is, #1 other than just running Windows apps natively, but we're talking about the POSSIBLE here. And also the desirable. I don't want to run Windows apps. ;-)

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InputSprockets

Where's InputSprockets for Mac OS X?

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Sprockets Bye, bye

There are NO sprockets of any kind in X. And I have heard nothing about exactly what is going to replace the functionality.. not to mention how we are going to deal with all of the current games that won't run if they don't find sprockets present. Cupertino certainly seems to be playing out of the Redmond playbook.. X's UI seems a lot closer to winblowz than to a Mac.

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Sprockets

Not true, there are some Sprockets in X. Draw Sprocket exists (albeit in a stripped down form), Net Sprocket is there by way of Open Source, but Input Sprocket is totally gone along with Sound Sprocket.

-Brian

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InputSprockets

are replaced by the HID Manager in OS X, although I've no idea if it'll be complete in OS X final.

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How soon until...

...Connectix finishes their XBox emulator?

:-)

Actually, I couldn't care less about the XBox, I hope the silly thing flops.

Designed by a committee, sounds okay on paper, but in the real world? Gamers are a demanding bunch. Most will recognize that the PS2 is a better console.

Me, I'm very happy with the quality of the games that do make it onto the Mac.

Far less configuration hassles getting them running than any PC I've used.

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happy with mac games??!!

seriously, the mac as a gaming platform is pitiful and ps2 doesn't have online gaming (at the moment). so macs have a few outstanding games like sim3000 and diablo2. those are the only two games i can think of that came out within a few months of the windows version. everything else hasn't/won't come out on the mac or will be 2 years later. when fallout 2 came out i bought a pc for the first time after 10 years of macs and i havent' looked back. you gotta be cracked to be happy with the state of macs and games.

of course there was this little problem of having to reinstall windows just to get rid of all the c*** earthlink installed on my comp....

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Who cares?

With the price of consoles getting cheaper and cheaper and our ability to copy games, who really cares? If you want a machine for PC games then buy a PC. While a Mac is better overall, in most of our opinions, no one said *not* to buy a PC if you like playing PC games. I don't play alot of games, but the ones I do play on the Mac I notice that they're better built and look much better, even the dumb stupid ones - compared to the PC. Whatever...

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Untapped Market...

It looks like Apple is developing a new demographic of Mac users for Game Developers.

Reasons for Developers to Create OSX Games:
OSX users are all running a G3 or better (few hardware APIs to write for). Open GL is already installed and running. Protected memory and better networking (fewer support calls to Game manufacturers). Apple can use its OSX sales figures to woo developers to an instant market. This is an untapped market with a community dying for some really great games. Kudos to Apple.

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take over SGI's market?

Sooner or later, with SGI's era dwindling, Apple seems to be well positioned to take over that market, perhaps even merge with that company? Any comments anyone?

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The Era of Games...

You know, I have heard a lot of people begin bashing the Mac Gaming Community. I want everyone to know that this era of Macs will be two + years behind is very quickly coming to a screeching halt.

Point of Refrence: Rouge Spear. Yes people, that game that has sold (I believe) a couple million copies total. It was orgianally on the MAC before the PC. Why?? Because the Mac is a better machine overall, and a lot of companies are realiing that the development for Mac games takes SHORTER that game development on the Windoze platorm.

As for OS X, I think that will be the pusher for the rest of the gaming community. I think that once people see how successful that OS X is, they are going to want to bring their games to OS X either first or a VERY CLOSE second. The reason behind it is the rock solid stability plus the fact that it uses nothing but GAME INDUSTRY STANDARDS like OpenGL already built into the core OS.

This is just my rant though...

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I like HTML

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Awesome!

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Apple and SGI

It would be more of a takeover and not a merge: SGI's market cap is 900 MB (MegaBucks), AAPL: 7 GB.

Wintel is taking over SGI's low-end just by offering good-but-not-as-great machines at an competitive price. Apple could do the same, without buying the company.

I'm not sure how much SGI's high-end is threatened yet. These babies scale from 2 to 512 processors (I'm working on a 128 procs machine right now). On the Super-Computing Top 500 list, SGI has been holding their share the last year. (www.top500.org) Their main competitors are IBM and Sun, but SGI has begun delivering the Origin 3000 series, which seem really nice.

I think it would have been cool if SGI was Apple's super computing arm. Programming and post-processing could be done on a Mac, with SGI machines as the back-end. (This may be horrible business however...I have no idea how much income and revenue super computing is making...)

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Well...

4x4 Evolution by Godgames and Published by Terminal Reality was, get this, ABLE TO RUN ON OS X PB. Yes, I ran it on the PB and couple of times. It was introduce the same time as the PC version of the same software and was CARBONIZED out of the box. It didn't run as smooth on the PB and it does in OS 9 but I didn't expect it to. It's nice to see someone in the Gaming community is in with the times. I expect ALL newly introduced Mac games to support OS X now.

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Oni works as well!

I have been playing Oni on PB and now FC without problems using systems with ATI 128PRO and Radeon.

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...uh, other games ...

There are other games that shipped in a timely manner...
Quake 3 Arena
Sin Gold
the Sims
heavy metal
unreal tourny
i think there are more....

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Oni rocks in OS X

Last night I was reading on Apple's website that Oni was already carbonized, sooo I tried it on my PB copy, and it works! A nice surprise indeed. Mac games on OS X have a great future, so I'm looking forward to MORE titles being ready for OS X :-)

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Apple at Game Developers Conference

updated 12:15 pm EST, Sat March 10, 2001

Heavy Hitting???

Its in its best interest

AGREED

Games are #1 for sales

InputSprockets

Sprockets Bye, bye

Sprockets

InputSprockets

How soon until...

happy with mac games??!!

Who cares?

Untapped Market...

take over SGI's market?

The Era of Games...

I like HTML

Awesome!

Apple and SGI

Well...

Oni works as well!

...uh, other games ...

Oni rocks in OS X

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