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Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne 1.21b (Mac OS 9, Mac OS X)
The difference between 1.21 and 1.21b
1.21b allows the game to be played without the need for a CD in the drive or a mounted disk image. Would have been nice if that were listed here. I found out only because the game auto-updated itself when I logged in to Battle.net and the patch notes following the update stated this. [alert admin]
Saturday, February 09 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST
Blizzard Starcraft 1.15.2 (Mac OS X)
Put the "Brood War Archive" file (or the Starcraft Archive" file if you don't own the Brood War expansion) from the CD into the Starcraft Files folder (which is inside the Starcraft Folder), not the Starcraft Folder. Other than the incorrect instruction, this works great. I no longer need to use my CD to play the game. Blizzard is owed a great deal of thanks for continuing to update these classic games and for their unparalleled Mac support. Now if only they'd do the same Diablo II, and make a Universal Binary for Warcraft II... <smile> [alert admin]
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Wednesday, January 16 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST
DicePro 2.1 (Palm OS)
This is definitely the best dice-rolling application for the Palm, especially for roleplayers - and it's free! [alert admin]
Friday, August 15 2003 @ 09:25 AM PDT
Myth: The Fallen Lords 1.4 (Mac OS 9, Mac OS X)
One of the best games ever, even six years later it stands right up to any contemporary game. The Mac OS X port is terrific! [alert admin]
Friday, August 01 2003 @ 09:27 AM PDT
Freedom Force 1.1 (Mac OS X)
Best game I've played all year. 
This is the best game I've played this year. Multiplayer mode is very bad; too quick and no special play modes available, just wipe out the other team and no co-op play. The "danger room" mode is also a yawner for me. But the single-player campaign...
The single-player campaign is awesome! This has all the over-the-top scripting of an early Steve Ditko / Jack Kirby comic, and TOTALLY over-the-top voice acting Birdman, Space Ghost, and Super Friends style. If that won't appeal to you, then you might want to stay away. I think most people with a sense of innocence or nostalgia will get a real kick out of it, though.
The campaign missions are varied and interesting. Prestige points pile up far too slowly to recruit new heroes quickly enough to be meaningful, even if missions are completed perfectly with no civilian damage or casualties. That's a shame, because some of the non-essential recruitable heroes are really fun to work with and spending prestige to recruit is the only way to get your own custom-made hero into the game.
Tactics are all-important during most missions. Expecting to just run up to and stomp the opposition will often lead to a quick spanking and a forced restore to your last saved game state. Choosing which heroes will participate in a mission is also important, and listening carefully to clues dropped during the cutscenes can provide valuable insight as to which characters will make up the best team. Some heroes work well together, playing off each other's strengths or covering weaknesses, while others tend to get in each other's way.
Although the heroes have essentially no AI and therefore require constant micromanagement, the enemy AI is pretty good and provided a decent challenge.
Highly recommended, would be absolutely one of the greatest games I've EVER played if multiplayer included a co-op campaign mode and the player could continue to use his solo campaign characters in the "danger room" or other missions after completing the solo campaign.
Some people have complained about crashing. I had one freeze-up the first time I played which forced me to force-quit the game and start it up again, but it's been perfect otherwise. Graphics are terrific and everything played very well on my 2.5-year-old Cube. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, July 16 2003 @ 01:19 PM PDT
Apple Safari 1.0 (Mac OS X)
eBay Problems with Safari 1.0 v85
I'm having trouble posting things for sale on eBay using Safari. Each time I get to the picture upload section, the windows go <poof> and I have to start over - with MS IE... I don't have pop-ups blocked or any special security measures. I'm wondering if this is a general issue or if there is something I can do to fix this problem. [alert admin]
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Monday, June 30 2003 @ 06:17 AM PDT
VueScan 7.6.19 (Mac OS X)
my Epson Stylus Scan 2500 printer/scanner combo! I had been so upset with Epson about never developing ANY Mac OS X support for this unit - I couldn't print or scan with it at all, except in the Classic environment or by booting into Mac OS 9. VueScan software is better than the Epson software ever was, and Gimp-Print (FREE!) gets my unit to print perfectly. Epson should buy some kind of license from VueScan and offer it to its orphaned customers, and Apple ought to bundle the open-source Gimp-Print (with Ghostscript) into the basic Mac OS X install package. Anyway, shame on Epson because I bought this unit two years ago from the Apple store at the same time I bought my first copy of Mac OS X and it should have JUST WORKED. [alert admin]
Saturday, March 01 2003 @ 06:44 AM PST
GameRanger 3.2 (Mac OS 9, Mac OS X)
a great free service and continues to be free. The new premium service at about $50 a year is not for me but would be if it were a $50 lifetime membership fee. [alert admin]
Friday, February 21 2003 @ 01:25 PM PST
Mail Forward X 1.2 (Mac OS X)
write software and I'm not just bashing. Both my powerbook and my cube run 10.2.3 and I don't have much 3rd-party crud on it. I ran this utility on my powerbook because it has a smallish hard drive and it worked fine. So I ran it on my cube a little later and BANG it screwed things up as I described below. There's no reason it should have happened, but obviously it deleted or changed something it shouldn't have. I can't see trying a new version because I can't afford the time to sit through an extra backup process and (possible) have to restore from that backup immediately after. If you're using it with no troubles, that's fine. My previous messages were meant as a warning to others, because Cache Out DID damage my system. I was ticked at the time but no personal animus to anyone, including Cache Out's author, was intended. [alert admin]
Monday, January 27 2003 @ 05:12 AM PST
Mail Forward X 1.2 (Mac OS X)
to restore my computer was to restore my /library and /system folders at both the root and user levels from my last full backup. I only do full backups like that once a month, so guess what? A month's worth of mail, system updates and preference changes, etc. are now all down the drain. Maybe I should have just reinstalled 10.2 and then applied the 10.2.3 combo updater, but I figured that would be even more destructive. Don't release undertested software that screws with system files. I know other people have used this without a problem, but how many have to experience the disaster I did tonight (a month's worth of progress partially wiped out and an entire evening lost restoring things to functionality) before sloppy developers learn their lesson? [alert admin]
Friday, January 24 2003 @ 06:16 PM PST
Last 10 Comments by JohnMHammer [ Search for All ]
Your problem is due to your attempt to install a version of ASM on a system that it was NOT DESIGNED FOR. There hasn't been a Leopard-compatible version of ASM until today (23 Jan 2008).
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Wednesday, January 23 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST
Starcraft (and Diablo II) work great on Intel-based Macs. They are not universal binaries (at least, Diablo II isn't... I haven't checked in to Starcraft but I doubt it is, either) but any Intel-based Mac has more than enough horsepower to deal with the non-native code. Warcraft II was never released in a MacOS X version. Therefore, your computer must either be able to boot into MacOS 9 or you must be able to run the…
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Thursday, January 17 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST
Window Mode *is* Software Mode 
"[I] fired up both games and put my Mac in windowed mode (Command-M) and the jerkyness disappered! For some strange reason OpenGL seems to work better that way instaed of full screen. So strange."
When you put the game into Window Mode using (Command-M), the game is no longer using OpenGL graphics - it's using the software renderer. Not only is OpenGL not the greatest for Diablo II because it has never been properly…
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Wednesday, July 16 2003 @ 11:31 AM PDT
