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Re: Macintosh Halo PC
Posted By: Shishka <shishka@shishka.net>Date: 10/13/03 4:39 p.m.

In Response To: Re: Macintosh Halo PC (Evil Otto)

: I just got a new build from Westlake today. They're making substantial
: progress, but since they are doing their bug tracking internally, I have
: no idea what the bug count is at at this point.

: For you Mac people that are frustrated with having to wait a bit longer,
: rememeber that Halo is very dependent on DirectX 9. Since these libraries
: don't exist on the Mac, all the pixel shaders, vertex shaders and what not
: have to be ported to OpenGL. Also, the plan for the Mac version is to ship
: with a codebase current with whatever the PC is at. Since Gearbox has
: already posted 2 patches, Westlake is still not out of the "trying to
: hit a moving target" mode yet.

Hey Otto!

I was under the impression that they were going to attempt using the MacDX libraries for Halo. It was my understanding that these are essentially DirectX for the Macintosh. Is MacDX really OGL, or did they scrap the idea altogether, or did I just make it up and they never had any intention of using MacDX... What's going on? =)

: [personal rant]
: On a side note, I recently purchased a Radeon 9000 pro Mac Edition
: specifically to test it on my home machine with an ATI card. One week
: later, it died.
: Although ATI granted me repairs (after 2 emails and a couple of phone calls),
: they made me pay for shipping even though it wasn't my fault the card was
: defective. (did you know that even though the 9000 is a current card on
: the product line, that ATI will not support it if used in OSX 10.2.3 or
: higher?)
: Anyway, one week later they tell me they have no record of my card being
: recieved by their repair shop. Fortunately not only did I have a tracking
: number, but I had the name of the dude at ATI that signed for it :). They
: said they'll get back to me on it. Five days later I still haven't heard
: from them.
: I hate ATI. I have never liked their cards and now I hate their company even
: worse. If you are thinking of upgrading your video card to play Halo Mac
: (or PC for that matter) I would *highly* recommend going with an nVidia
: option.
: [/personal rant]

Word. I've never been a fan of ATI, and it's been driving me bonkers that I recommend ATI cards for Halo PC due to the issues with NVIDIA's 45 drivers on the PC. What a nasty situation.

-S

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Replies:

Macintosh Halo PCAlexis 10/13/03 3:49 p.m.
     Re: Macintosh Halo PCShishka 10/13/03 4:15 p.m.
     Re: Macintosh Halo PCEvil Otto 10/13/03 4:28 p.m.
           Re: Macintosh Halo PCShishka 10/13/03 4:39 p.m.
                 Re: Macintosh Halo PCEvil Otto 10/13/03 4:49 p.m.
                       Re: Macintosh Halo PCShishka 10/13/03 5:01 p.m.
                             Three conversations...Evil Otto 10/13/03 5:20 p.m.
                                   Re: Three conversations...Miguel Chavez 10/13/03 7:49 p.m.
                                         Re: Three conversations...Ross Mills 10/13/03 8:15 p.m.
                                         Re: Three conversations...Shishka 10/13/03 9:11 p.m.
           Re: Macintosh Halo PCSep7imus [subnova] 10/14/03 10:11 a.m.
                 Re: Macintosh Halo PCLouis Wu 10/14/03 1:33 p.m.
                 Re: Macintosh Halo PCEvil Otto 10/14/03 1:44 p.m.
                       Re: Thanks for the update!Sep7imus [subnova] 10/14/03 1:50 p.m.
                             Re: Thanks for the update!Louis Wu 10/14/03 3:01 p.m.
           "Macintosh Halo PC"?Sphtman 10/15/03 1:10 a.m.
                 Re: "Macintosh Halo PC"?Louis Wu 10/15/03 9:07 a.m.
                       Re: "Macintosh Halo PC"?Sphtman 10/15/03 11:52 a.m.
                             Re: "Macintosh Halo PC"?Louis Wu 10/15/03 12:56 p.m.
                                   Re: "Macintosh Halo PC"?rosignol 11/5/03 6:22 p.m.
                                         Re: "Macintosh Halo PC"?mnemesis 11/5/03 10:05 p.m.
                                               Re: "Macintosh Halo PC"?rosignol 11/6/03 12:05 a.m.
                                         Re: "Macintosh Halo PC"?Louis Wu 11/6/03 7:58 a.m.
                 Re: "Macintosh Halo PC"?Alexis 10/17/03 4:57 a.m.
                       Re: "Macintosh Halo PC"?Evil Otto 10/17/03 3:22 p.m.
                             Re: "Macintosh Halo PC"?Alexis 11/5/03 12:59 a.m.
                                   Re: "Macintosh Halo PC"?Shishka 11/5/03 2:29 a.m.



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