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06-30-07 / 03:21 PM : ScummVM 0.1 (cjed)
A new version of ScummVM (the virtual machine for LucasArts adventure games) brings bug fixes to games and support to new ones. That is here.
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06-28-07 / 12:23 AM : DOSBox : emulate DOS games on PPC and Intel (cjed)
DOSBox is a DOS emulator for Windows (including VISTA) and even MacOSX (universal ninary, so compatible with Intel and PowerPC !). On a 1,25 Ghz G4 adventure games from mid nineties run, but far from smooth (it would be interesting to compare these performances with those in Windows 2000 DOS under Virtual PC). However performances on Intel mac shoud be far more greater. That is here for the download.
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06-28-07 / 12:12 AM : Unreleased Doom midifiles (cjed)
John Romero provides at download from his famous blog unreleased midifiles of Doom, that weren't included in the original game. He also has in his archives NextStep sources of the game.
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06-28-07 / 12:07 AM : Need for Speed: Carbon preview (cjed)
IMG posted a preview of Need for Speed: Carbon and some screenshots.
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06-26-07 / 11:17 PM : Parallels 3 only supports DirectX 8 (cjed)
Macworld makes the point on Parallels 3 and games : OpenGL games run fine (for example Prey, based on the Doom 3 engine), however DirectX support is limited to version 8, then recent games (and Vista Aero) aren't compatibles. So perhaps Cider compatibility is better with managed games, and finally the quick switch provided by Leopard's new Boot Camp may be the best solution.
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06-24-07 / 02:45 PM : A New Light episode for Myst Online (cjed)
A new episode, A New Light, is available for Myst Online : Uru Live since yesterday. It offers a new age, Er'Cana :
Power is shifting and new leaders begin to emerge while those from the past begin to fade. Amidst all the chaos, the Age of Er’Cana is released and Explorers are asked to help feed the darkening lake. Meanwhile, new information is revealed and more begin to fear the coming war.
Er’Cana features a vast landscape with hours of unique gameplay that can be played single player or with friends.

We can look at screenshots on the site Uru Obsession.
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06-24-07 / 02:14 PM : IMG : Transgaming interview (cjed)
IMG provides an interview of Transgaming CEO. He states that Cider is the future of mac gaming, and that his team has very deep knowledge in workarounds to map DirectX calls to OpenGL calls, and did a great job optimizing shaders on mac.
Cider is based upon Cedega, a non-free Wine fork developped by Transgaming. However packaged games are certified in terms of compatibility, and changes are made to Cider to provide the best performances.
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06-22-07 / 12:33 AM : Marathon Resurrection soon (cjed)
Marathon Resurrection, the Marathon port project to Unreal Tournament, should be completed soon. The Faq also says that other projects exist (ports to other engines).s
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06-19-07 / 12:27 AM : John Carmack and macs (cjed)
During the upcoming E3 show (next July) id Software will unveil most of details about its new 3D engine, idTech5. Meanwhile John Carmack provided some informations at the Apple WWDC2007 keynote, and a Macworld article makes the point about his strong support for mac (he developed Doom and Quake on NextStep), and on his opinion on virtualizations solutions like Cider.
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06-16-07 / 02:50 PM : Cider and mac gaming future (cjed)
Folowing the Apple and EA partnership announce, the site extremetech is septical about the future of gaming on mac, as EA will also use Transgaming Cider virtualization system to do porting, and performances compared with native games are not guaranted.
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06-09-07 / 03:38 PM : Parallels Desktop 3.0 / VMWare Fusion (cjed)
The final version of Parallels Desktop 3.0 is now shipping (80 euros). Among supported games are Half Life 2, WoW, Quake 4, Far Cry. Through the online video we see that the framerate isn't great (acceptable), it reminds the video demonstrating Half Life 2 under CodeWeavers Crossover.
Meanwhile VMWare provides a new beta of its Fusion virtualizer, that many users reported to be more powerful and better integrated.
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06-03-07 / 05:55 PM : Nexuiz 2.3 : faster and better rendering (cjed)
A new 2.3 version of the famous online multiplayer game Nexuiz is available. The engine has reveived an overhaul and performances are then greatly enhanced (50 to 500% depending from the conditions). Rendering is also far more better (sharper effects, higher res textures). With the new included maps it now weights 273 Mo.
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