Mac FAQ - potentially...
Ayslhyn:
OSX open source? My butt. It is every bit as closed as Vista. Apple might be using UNIX as the code language , Intel or not but I challenge you to run OS Tiger on a PC.
J. M. Pescado:
In that case, the source must have been stolen, which amounts to the same thing.
Simsample:
I use Mac and PC, and like both!
From what I understand, a disadvantage of the Mac version of The Sims2 is that Antialiasing is not supported, no matter which graphics card you have. The Woohoo project also seems to be unsupported now, unfortunately- but there is a DBPF reader available:
http://homepage.mac.com/petergould/DBPF/index.html
There is a good Mac forum on TSR where Mac users can get a lot of information, and some of the Mac users from there also visit the Mac Help forum on MTS2. I seem to be the main person to moderate on there and unfortunately, not having TS2 on Mac, I'm not very knowledgeable in this field- so any facts and tips collected here would be a great resource!
Ayslhyn:
Yup let us concentrate on that. Macs are no better or no worse than PC's .Just different.
A FAQ is a good idea.
Hegelian:
Quote from: Ayslhyn on 2007 February 22, 11:15:11
There is no manner of need for that hostility. All I could, and honestly DID say was that I had never known my mac (or any of the three others in da house) to crash. None of them ever have.
Sorry! Perhaps I'm just finding the current Apple ad campaign especially repugnant and insulting, even by Apple's usual low standards in that regard.
However, you did state categorically that "macs crash very rarely." Perhaps better to say that "some Macs crash rarely." ;D
Otherwise, I don't think I said anything that isn't true.
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2007 February 22, 11:22:02
Quote from: Hegelian on 2007 February 22, 10:32:57
*A closed system of proprietary hardware and software, with the price premium one would expect from that circumstance.
Macs apparently run on standard Intel platforms now and OSX is supposedly open source.
Apple has switched its CPU sourcing to Intel because IBM couldn't (or was unwilling to) reliably deliver PowerPC chips in the relatively small quantities Apple was buying. To the best of my knowledge, Mac OS will not run on a non-Apple, Intel-based computer.
OS X is sort of open source, after a fashion:
"Major components of Mac OS X, including the UNIX-based core, are made available under Apple's Open Source license, allowing developers and students to view source code, learn from it and submit suggestions and modifications."
http://www.apple.com/opensource/
Note that it says nothing about actually using it. :D
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2007 February 22, 11:29:02
In that case, the source must have been stolen, which amounts to the same thing.
When Apple could not complete a follow-up to System 7.5 in-house (the ill-fated Copland), it bought Steve Jobs's NeXT and its NeXTSTEP operating system (this in 1996). With Jobs back on board, further extensions of System 7.x were renamed System 8. The effort to incorporate NeXTSTEP into a Mac OS was codenamed Rhapsody, which was never publicly released (it was merged into Apple's open-source Unix-like Darwin OS). In the end, Apple combined elements of the OpenStep API from NeXT with chunks of FreeBSD Unix from UC-Berkeley (development of BSD ceased around 1995). A version of BSD that did not contain proprietary AT&T Unix code (developed by Bell Labs) was released in 1994, so it is pretty much available for anyone to use (apparently, Microsoft has adapted BSD code for its TCP/IP implementation).
Anyway, back to the TS2 FAQ for Mac users. . . .
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