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Posted December 03, 2010
So I gave away my desktop PC to charity seeing as how it was more than 5 years old and I have a brand new macbook pro.

While most of me is glad that I tried to do something nice, my video game nostalgia addiction is very angry and swears it won't have a good Christmas now.

Someday perhaps Apple will get their act together and open up the floodgates of good old games, but until then, I'll just keep drooling whenever I see a special deal in my email inbox

:(
Posted December 04, 2010
Well some games that use dosbox and scummvm should be playable on mac, there's a thread called something like "games working on linux & wine, pretty sure that includes mac talk".

Also you could use... that thing... (bootcamp is it?) that lets you dualboot mac os with windows
Posted December 04, 2010
Seriously, I don't get the MacBooks these days... They don't even have HDMI out.

I tried to use my flatmate's laptop to watch a movie, and realised it doesn't have a normal or mini HDMI and gave up.

Small thing I know but man, you'd think Macs would have learnt to be more compatible but instead it seems they're trying harder and harder to become more elite.
Posted December 04, 2010
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Virama: Seriously, I don't get the MacBooks these days... They don't even have HDMI out.

I tried to use my flatmate's laptop to watch a movie, and realised it doesn't have a normal or mini HDMI and gave up.

Small thing I know but man, you'd think Macs would have learnt to be more compatible but instead it seems they're trying harder and harder to become more elite.
<sarcasm>
Didn't you know? HDMI is for nubs, along with USB 3.0
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Although to be fair on Apple for usb 3.0 they are most likely waiting for lightpeak.
Posted December 04, 2010
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Virama: Seriously, I don't get the MacBooks these days... They don't even have HDMI out.

I tried to use my flatmate's laptop to watch a movie, and realised it doesn't have a normal or mini HDMI and gave up.

Small thing I know but man, you'd think Macs would have learnt to be more compatible but instead it seems they're trying harder and harder to become more elite.
They use Mini Displayport out, you can buy a Mini Displayport -> HDMI converter.
Posted December 04, 2010
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Virama: Seriously, I don't get the MacBooks these days... They don't even have HDMI out.

I tried to use my flatmate's laptop to watch a movie, and realised it doesn't have a normal or mini HDMI and gave up.

Small thing I know but man, you'd think Macs would have learnt to be more compatible but instead it seems they're trying harder and harder to become more elite.
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saramakos: They use Mini Displayport out, you can buy a Mini Displayport -> HDMI converter.
Which is mac only. Typical.
Posted December 04, 2010
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Skwee: While most of me is glad that I tried to do something nice, my video game nostalgia addiction is very angry and swears it won't have a good Christmas now.
i beg to differ, you will have a very nice christmas now :)

and i bet there are lots of hours of gaming for you too, i dont know about that bootcamp stuff or something, but when i read through this thread you arent lost it seems
Posted December 04, 2010
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Virama: Which is mac only. Typical.
From Wikipedia:
Announced by Apple in the fourth quarter of 2008, today it is used in all new Macs (MacBook, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, iMac, Mac mini, Mac Pro, Xserve), and the LED Cinema Display.[1] Also in Toshiba Satellite Pro S500, Tecra M11, A11, S11, HP Envy 14 and 17 notebooks.[2]

It is Apple developed but can be licensed by anyone for free.
I agree it can be a PITA sometime, but Apple often take risks jumping technology forward before others - like when they phased out floppys before other people did and copped a lot of ridicule for it.

Long and short of it - by Wintel / Mac depending on what you want or need, not over who is more or less "elite" - mini displayport drives higher resolutions than DVI can at the moment, but yes, it has less support.
Posted December 04, 2010
Stupid question probably, but can you install a Linux distro on apple notebook? I have never in my life encountered a macbook, just curious.
Posted December 04, 2010
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Skwee: Someday perhaps Apple will get their act together and open up the floodgates of good old games, but until then, I'll just keep drooling whenever I see a special deal in my email inbox

:(
You can easily dual-boot between Mac OS X and Windows XP / Vista / 7 on your Macbook... In OSX Application/Utilities folder there's an app called Boot Camp Assistant that will automatically split your disk in two and install Windows... you just need your Windows DVD and that's it. Using this solution you can have Windows running natively on your hardware, just like if it was a PC notebook. Right now I have Win7 installed on my Mac to play PC games and it works great!

Or, if you don't want to dual-boot, check out application called Parallels - it's a virtual machine, so it's not gonna be as fast as via Bootcamp, since it's OS inside OS and you're splitting system resources between the two. It's pretty convenient though :).

It's all nicely explained here http://www.apple.com/findouthow/mac/#windowsmac. You can find more info on Apple / Parallels websites as well.

Also, I'm pretty positive that you can even start with Boot Camp to install Windows on your Mac and then hook up that Boot Camp partition into Parallels - this way you'd have best of both worlds :)
Post edited December 04, 2010 by Destro
Posted December 04, 2010
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Destro: Or, if you don't want to dual-boot, check out application called Parallels - it's a virtual machine, so it's not gonna be as fast as via Bootcamp, since it's OS inside OS and you're splitting system resources between the two. It's pretty convenient though :).

Also, I'm pretty positive that you can even start with Boot Camp to install Windows on your Mac and then hook up that Boot Camp partition into Parallels - this way you'd have best of both worlds :)
You can definitely start up the Bootcamp partition in VMWare Fusion, probably Parallels too.

I found some DirectX games temperamental if you run them fullscreen in VMWare, but others may have found a way around it.

Now I just dual boot between the two. Run the DOS ones in DosBox for Mac to save rebooting and the Windows ones in Wndows.
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