For the same reason you don't see old shevy stuff on a classic ford site.
i know of atari and amiga forums, but without wishing to divert the discussion - what old mac forums still survive?
68k liberation front (AKA the apple circle jerk) is the only one I know of. There is a bit over at VCF.
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wrote:In USA, nobody really used the Amiga for anything else than productivity, mission-critical, music and art production.
Yeah, they also had that famous "Video Toaster" nobody here in Europe had ever heard of (until it was obsolete).
I think I've even read a few times how Amiga people from the US wondered why we (the PAL users from the rest of the world)
don't honour that damn thing in our retro videos and vintage computing blogs. 🙄
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Toaster
http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=23187
wrote:Even NASA used them for launch of the space shuttle.
Funny that you mention this, just recently I watched a video about that. 😀
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wrote:Yeah, they also had that famous "Video Toaster" nobody here in Europe had ever heard of (until it was obsolete).
I think I've even read a few times how Amiga people from the US wondered why we (the PAL users from the rest of the world)
don't honour that damn thing in our retro videos and vintage computing blogs. 🙄
I heard about it, there was an article in Amiga Format about it, also talking about how Babylon 5 used Video Toasters for the CGI effects.
We did get Babylon 5 on TV, but they just converted it from NTSC to PAL 😀
I have stacks of old Macs, I just do not game on them. The Amiga has dedicated forums that are pretty busy (English Amiga Board for one).
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What are some famous mac games? Marathon is the only one I know of.
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wrote:What are some famous mac games? Marathon is the only one I know of.
Total Annihilation also had a MAC version iirc.
yeah there were plenty with mac versions [warcraft 1-2, diablo 1/2, starcraft, quake 1/2, etc] and others that were arguably clones of other games [barrack, apeiron, mars rising etc etc], but marathon was original in some way [i don't know, i hardly played it enough to tell]. but mac games often seemed smooth and slick compared to pc versions/originals/whatever, even if only having a gui for setting parameters.
Halo was first developed for the Mac before Microsoft bought Bungie when the Xbox was conceived.
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Certainly Marathon was made for the Mac, but was Halo in development before Microsoft bought Bungie?
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There was a game called Zero Point Count, using the Marathon engine which was kinda like Comix Zone meets Doom with a season of 1984 thrown in for good measure. That was pretty cool.
wrote:but was Halo in development before Microsoft bought Bungie?
Yes, and it even premiered at Macworld in 1999. The buyout and xboxexclusivness was salt in the wounds and actually made me feel for all those poor Mac'ers, screwed from finally getting their equivalent to Half-Life 🙁
