August 16, 2006
Older Mac games getting Universalized
Posted Aug. 16, ’06, 6:37 AM PT by Derik DeLong
Category | Games
Brad Oliver, game porting guru, has finished work on turning some older Mac games into Universal Binaries. It’s good to see older games getting some Intel lovin’.
I’ve also been working on some other patches - a universal binary patch for Civ3 complete as well as universal binary builds of Jedi Knight 2 and Jedi Academy. I hope they’ll see the light of day soon; it’s mostly an issue of getting them through QA and approved for release at this point. I also did a universal binary of another Quake-based game for fun - a personal favorite of mine. Hopefully she’ll be ready for action soon.
Cyrus, look, Civ3! I’m a huge Jedi game fan, so being able to play those with record FPS is going to be great. They already ran great on my old Power Mac. They should run like silk on the Mac Pro.
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I'm hoping that the other Quake-based game is Call of Duty. It's the only Mac game that I've bought and I'd love to see it running hell for leather on my Intel MacBook Pro when it arrives. It does run on my old Ti PowerBook but not exactly quickly and at fuzz-o-res.
Awesome!