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Date Posted: 10:55:21 04/07/08 Mon
Author: DZR
Author Host/IP: 82.6.99.15
Subject: Woo hoo!
In reply to: Kashmanik 's message, "A technologicalarised question for DZR....." on 07:45:57 04/06/08 Sun

Welcome, welcome. Have some Kool-Aid.

Both VMware Fusion and Parallels will allow you to boot a Windows (or Linux, or Solars, or BSD, or ...) virtual machine which will run within Mac OS X. Now you can certainly play quite a lot of games inside a virtual machine. However, games which require hardware accelerated graphics won't really work in a VM. So if what you want to play are games like backgammon, solitaire, etc. then running a VM will be fine. On the other hand, if what you want to play are games like Doom, Quake, Half-Life, etc. then you will want to re-boot the Mac and boot Windows. But don't worry, the latest version of Mac OS X (Leopard - 10.5) comes with something called BootCamp which painlessly allows you to do this (you have to provide your own copy of Windows).

See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BootCamp

http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/bootcamp.html

http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/

For maximum painlessness, you need either a copy of Windows Vista, or a non-upgrade version of Windows XP (Home or Professional) Service Pack 2. You can get it to work with other versions of Windows but it's a huge pain in the arse.

You may also want to check whether the games in question have been ported to Mac OS X. If they have, and you have legal paid for versions of the Windows versions, then you may be entitled to obtain the Mac versions of the games for little or no charge.

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[> P.S. What did you think of "He That Believeth In Me"? -- DZR, 12:14:26 04/07/08 Mon [1] (82.6.99.15)

I'm so excited to see BSG back.


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[> [> Thought it was great. -- Kashmanik, 13:12:23 04/07/08 Mon [1] (79.68.85.76)

I was shocked when the end of the episode came, as it felt like it had only just started. Sign of quality!

Thanks for the Mac advice. Hopefully we'll be getting it delivered by Saturday, so if we have troubles no doubt you'll be getting another barrage of questions!


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