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I used to have a mac but it broke now i have a pc with windows me. I think you should make a windows version. It would bring in alot more money too.

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Not going to happen. First of all, Ambrosia doesn't make Windows games as a general rule, and second, you'd need to get the original author to convert it. Lamont has moved on to other things nowadays...

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I can't add anything here... Good job Pallas on the summary. There is one bone to pick with I contention have; which is that ambrosia never makes games for PC. nova is coming out on PC (andrew having succumbed to the lure of a bottomless cash pit). Shame...

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Ah, but that's Contraband, not Ambrosia.

Pallas has it pretty much correct. The main point is that Nathan Lamont has moved on to other things. And there's not much point signing a several-thousand-dollar porting contract for a five-year old game.

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Sundered Angel,
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While I usually don't think much of the "buy a mac" comments engendered by wishes for ASW stuff to be ported to PC, you could just [url="http://"http://poweron.com/1-800-673-6227/preg3.htm"]spend about a hundred bucks[/url] and get a Performa or something to run Ares

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...down the same path as Bungie.

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Who cares if they make games for PC! ASW is a corporation not a charity- they exist to make a profit.

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I just realised...I hate huge signatures and I have one myself- DOH!

I care if they start deliberately releasing games on PC rather than mac, but since the chances of that are really remote I don't think I need to even burst a lightbulb thinking about it. Perhaps if andrew suffered a fatal heart attack and the other members of ASW had their heads chainsawed off, we might see a direct reversal in ambrosia policy...

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Instead of adding to this overexhausted, very pointless debate like SOME people here and many people on the EV boards are doing, I'll actually help out this guy.

I had the same problem with Ares; I beta tested Ares on my Mac, but then it broke, so all I have is my PC (anyone willing to sell an old PowerMac for under $50? Anyone?).

Anyway, you can search on the EV boards for something called Basilisk II; it's a Mac (68k only, unfortunately) emulator, and an excellent one at that. One other obstacle will be the fact that it requires a ROM file. I'm using one from an older Mac I have, though there has been some controversy around that too. I'm choosing to ignore that part of it and hope that what I'm doing is illegal (and I don't see what's illegal about it).

So anyway, um, yeah, I can play Ares on it. I have yet to try net games, though they might actually work...

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Mike Lee (Firebird)
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[edit: hrm lacking a monitor, nm.]

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[This message has been edited by Patrick (edited 06-26-2002).]

How about a 75Mhz Preforma 6205 CD? Its not the fastest computer in the world but it will get the job done...

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Hera requires a PPC.

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Mike Lee (Firebird)
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that IS a ppc. All performas with 4 numbers are PPC, 3 numbers= 68k. also the fastest 68k was either 33 or 40mhz so a 75mhz comp is a PPC

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I just realised...I hate huge signatures and I have one myself- DOH!

I can see your knowledge of 68k doesn't extend too far pat, otherwise you would know that a megahertz on a 68k counts for alot more (like 4x as much) than a RISC processor megahertz. The latest 68k were actually quite a bit faster than the early PPC.

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Well I could certainly argue with that statement(68k 3-4x faster) but instead I'd like to point out that Hera requires a PPC not because of it's speed but because it doesn't contain 68k coding. Therefore, no matter how much faster a 68k is than the earlier PPCs(also remember that the original PPCs were running 99% of the software and even a good chunk of the MacOS under emulation) it won't run Hera.

By the way, are you referring to the 68060 Joveia? Macs never had that, they maxed out on '040s.

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I just realised...I hate huge signatures and I have one myself- DOH!

No need to use bold, there boy.

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