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I know it's for Mac but is it for PC? Cause I love this
game! It rocks sky-high and don't have a Mac at my house.
The only way I can play it is at one of my friends house
and I don't want to bother him by going to his house every
day for 4 hours and thats only on week-days. It's a great
game and don't get me wrong I love PC's and well.. Mac's
I'm getting used to.
I find all the Mac games I play are really cool an me and
friend seem to find this on the most kool of all except he only has
the Demo but he will be getting the full version soon.
So if you haven't tried to get it for PC please do so and if you can't
let me know. Thanks in advance.
And if anyone knows where to get a free program that will translate
Mac files to PC please let me know on that.
Ares: I know it's for Mac but...
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Posted 04 December 2000 - 04:49 PM
The best advice I can offer is get some really cheap mac. Ambrosia only makes software for macs, and aren't going to make any for pc's. As far as trying to get it for pc's... why should we? We have macs, and like macs better. I don't think that we'd get anywhere, even if we wanted to.
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Posted 04 December 2000 - 04:58 PM
Emulating Mac games on PC's is very difficult, and if on the off chance you get the game working, it'll tend to run pretty poorly. As far as I know
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Posted 04 December 2000 - 08:44 PM
aren't future games like Ragnarok and..... ( i think ) deimos rising gonna be for PC's? but i don't think they're gonna make Ares for PC's, at least not anytime soon.
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Posted 04 December 2000 - 09:18 PM
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Originally posted by Joolzman5:
aren't future games like Ragnarok and..... ( i think ) deimos rising gonna be for PC's? but i don't think they're gonna make Ares for PC's, at least not anytime soon.
aren't future games like Ragnarok and..... ( i think ) deimos rising gonna be for PC's? but i don't think they're gonna make Ares for PC's, at least not anytime soon.
Ragnarok too? Since when? Deimos Rising was the only cross-platform I knew of...
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Posted 04 December 2000 - 09:40 PM
I had only heard of Ragnorok being for PC.
EVN isn't likely to see the PC, and Ares 3D will be released before Ares PC.
Getting a Mac might be a good idea, as I heard OSX will run windows apps.
Many have encouraged me to get the beta to try 10^6, but I fear betas, being a (student) programmer in real life.
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EVN isn't likely to see the PC, and Ares 3D will be released before Ares PC.
Getting a Mac might be a good idea, as I heard OSX will run windows apps.
Many have encouraged me to get the beta to try 10^6, but I fear betas, being a (student) programmer in real life.
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Posted 09 December 2000 - 08:46 PM
Both Deimos Rising and Ragnarok are going to be for Windows. Also, Coldstone might be for Windows. As far as running Ares on your Windows machine, you should go to the EV Banter and Brawl Board...they will tell you some Mac emulators for Windows (I can't remember any offhand). Also, pick yourself up a cheap iMac. 
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Posted 17 December 2000 - 05:47 PM
WTF!?!?! i come back to the forum and the first thing i see is someone wanting an ambrosia games for pc... ha i think like that will ever happen THEN i find out that not onlly is ambrosia makin a game for peeceee thier makin TWO of them what is the worldo comminng to why is the game company that has always stood foor Mac gaming at its most addicted state. im very disappointed in ambrosia what has pocessed them to do this?
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Posted 19 December 2000 - 06:39 PM
As far as Ambrosia goes, I never thought they'd go cross-platform either, but upon further consideration, I don't condemm them for it. 2 reasons: They make some of the best games (period) for the Mac side, and probably will always do so. Secondly, they are a business, and if they can 1, bring some high-quality shareware to the PC side, and 2, make some extra money at it, I'll continue to back them with my money and moral support as long as they still exist.
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Posted 19 December 2000 - 06:41 PM
As far as Ambrosia goes, I never thought they'd go cross-platform either, but upon further consideration, I don't condemm them for it. 2 reasons: They make some of the best games (period) for the Mac side, and probably will always do so. Secondly, they are a business, and if they can 1, bring some high-quality shareware to the PC side, and 2, make some extra money at it, I'll continue to back them with my money and moral support as long as they (and I) exist.
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Posted 21 December 2000 - 11:23 AM
Jeez... I wish it would stop multi-posting. Guess it still went through the first time, even though IE crashed...I guess that's what you get for having 0 Karma points... ;-)
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Posted 28 December 2000 - 10:49 PM
Corection, 3 games for PC, well, if you can call the Cold Stone game engine a game...and you probly can.
Oh...and for the record I hear there is Ares 3D, with more players, more ships, and a good deal less editability...its called Home World, and its PC only.
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Oh...and for the record I hear there is Ares 3D, with more players, more ships, and a good deal less editability...its called Home World, and its PC only.
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Well, I don't have a Mac and never will, but I just bought the full
versions of Ares and EV Override and they rock on my machine. (Hint:
it's not a PC...it's got a 68060....)
Well, I don't have a Mac and never will, but I just bought the full
versions of Ares and EV Override and they rock on my machine. (Hint:
it's not a PC...it's got a 68060....)
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Corection, 3 games for PC, well, if you can call the Cold Stone game engine a game...and you probly can.
Oh...and for the record I hear there is Ares 3D, with more players, more ships, and a good deal less editability...its called Home World, and its PC only.
Corection, 3 games for PC, well, if you can call the Cold Stone game engine a game...and you probly can.
Oh...and for the record I hear there is Ares 3D, with more players, more ships, and a good deal less editability...its called Home World, and its PC only.
! I hear there's a version of ares but on planets and you build ships and troops and there's 3 species and it's called starcraft and mac and pc have it and there are expansionso it better than ares but PC users can have it too ok!?------------------
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Posted 09 January 2001 - 08:06 PM
Don't even think about compairing those over-traditional games to Ares.
Ares is a BETTER representation of the true nature of space combat of the far future than Homeworld. Ares 3D would be kewl, but it's a pipe dream, even for those of us with both Macs and PCs [doesn't include me].
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Ares is a BETTER representation of the true nature of space combat of the far future than Homeworld. Ares 3D would be kewl, but it's a pipe dream, even for those of us with both Macs and PCs [doesn't include me].
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Posted 10 January 2001 - 05:53 PM
ambrosia doesnt have the money or the time to make ares 3d, besides graphics engines aren't powerful enough right now to make realistic 3d games that some one can play on there computer. (there not, So DONT argue with me on this one)
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just take my post, and imagine everything is speeled right.
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besides graphics engines aarent powerful enough right now to make accuarate 3d games that some one can play n there computer. (there not, So DONT argue with me on this one)
besides graphics engines aarent powerful enough right now to make accuarate 3d games that some one can play n there computer. (there not, So DONT argue with me on this one)
Sorry, I don't understand what you're saying.
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Posted 11 January 2001 - 06:52 PM
Uh...Pyro, there are many recent three dimensional realistic Mac games out there. I have a few, and one of them is a couple years old.
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Posted 11 January 2001 - 08:19 PM
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It's a scale issue. Space is f*cking large even for one system, measured in AUs, which are about 144000000km (assuming the Earth is 8 light-minutes away, I can never remeber if it's 8 or 4). Showing realistic details (<5 m) AND scales that massive would require enormously flexible units, prehaps double precision floating point. For a graphic visualization of how slow that would be, download POV-ray from [url="http://"http://www.povray.org"]www.povray.org[/url] and try to render something at 640*480. Then we talk "seconds per frame" instead of "frames per second".
I think the oort cloud (farthest area of the system with something solid in it) is a few hundred AUs from the sun. That's about the systems RADIUS. Think about trying to do that. You'd blow a motherboard.
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It's a scale issue. Space is f*cking large even for one system, measured in AUs, which are about 144000000km (assuming the Earth is 8 light-minutes away, I can never remeber if it's 8 or 4). Showing realistic details (<5 m) AND scales that massive would require enormously flexible units, prehaps double precision floating point. For a graphic visualization of how slow that would be, download POV-ray from [url="http://"http://www.povray.org"]www.povray.org[/url] and try to render something at 640*480. Then we talk "seconds per frame" instead of "frames per second".
I think the oort cloud (farthest area of the system with something solid in it) is a few hundred AUs from the sun. That's about the systems RADIUS. Think about trying to do that. You'd blow a motherboard.
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Posted 12 January 2001 - 06:54 AM
But...but...wait a minute! I don't think ares has that kind of accuracy anyway! 
Anyway, not even the Homeworld engine could do that. And Starcraft is a different type of game altogether.
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Posted 13 January 2001 - 01:27 AM
Ares comes dang closest, with tons of empty space, with actual planets in the game. Not bad for 2D, not bad at all.
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