Future PowerPC beyond 3.2 ghz?

**Oscar Castillo** · May 15th, 2005, 06:15 PM

Looks like it has no shell at all in the pic. I may get one. Would be nice if the SDK is available to anyone, but I hear it's no easy task to get ahold of. Not like picking up Visual Studio at CompUSA, nor is it part of Visual Studio.

**Satcomer** · May 15th, 2005, 09:42 PM

Originally Posted by Reality

A little confusing but I think I understand it. In other news I was watching the video through one more time and noticed something in 360 prototype line.

It's like a ugly Powermac or something. It's the crone and handles I think that just make it look like one to me.

What video codec were you using to play the movie in QuickTime? My QuickTime 7 Pro will not play the movie (neither will MPlayer or VLC).

**Oscar Castillo** · May 15th, 2005, 09:45 PM

The original is a .WMV format, but as you can see he's playing a .MOV. Probably converted it, or someone else did.

**Reality** · May 15th, 2005, 10:57 PM

It was converted by a site called Gametrailers.com. If your a gamer, they are the place to check out the latest movie media. But yeah, that's where I got it from.

http://www.gametrailers.com/player.php?id=5734&type=mov

**Quicksilver** · May 16th, 2005, 07:36 AM

It would be really nice if Apple and Microsoft really teamed up for once. And it would be nicer to play those xbox 360 games on your Apple G5.

**Oscar Castillo** · May 16th, 2005, 09:58 AM

I suppose what good can come out of this is that the code base for these games opens up opportunities for developers to support the Mac with much less of a financial risk than supporting two completely different platforms x86/PPC.

**Captain Code** · May 16th, 2005, 10:01 AM

But won't the XBox use Direct X? I would think they would instead of OpenGL which would make porting games to OS X really hard.

**Oscar Castillo** · May 16th, 2005, 01:44 PM

The majority of worthwhile games for the PC will use DirectX instead of OpenGL, but it should cut down on development time than starting from an x86 code base.
Don't know for sure, I've never tried, but considerig the origins of OpenGL, I have a hard time believing that it can be so inferior that it's rarely considered for game development. I'd have to give both a try. Anyone have Halo for the Mac? Is it any less visually lacking than the PC or XBox?