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February 4th, 2006, 12:35 AM
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| The Sims 2 and the New Intel-based Macs I have two games, the Sims 2 and Railroad Tycoon 3 for my Mac. What will happen to these games if I get a new Intel Mac? Will I have to buy them again? Is that what typically happens to games when a hardware upgrade of this nature occurs? I can't imagine that either game will run nicely under Rosetta. Any thoughts, anyone?
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February 4th, 2006, 08:42 AM
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| I think those games take advantage of the velocity engine. And rosetta only emulates G3 instructions. I don't know if those games are, or ever will be universal, same with a lot of games and old mac os x apps. And some new ones that are not main company focusses for some companies who mainly focus on one app.
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February 4th, 2006, 01:50 PM
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| Poo.
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February 4th, 2006, 02:06 PM
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| From MacFixIt; Games -- most compatible, but slow A few readers have reported that the Sims 2 outputs no sound when run under Rosetta. Other games' status are as follows: Doom3 - Works in 640X480 and 800X600 Slightly jerky Homeworld 2 - Works Nanosaur 2 - Works Warcraft III Reign of Chaos - Works Warcraft III - Frozen Throne - Works MacObserver reports that Aspyr Media has confirmed that it will be releasing free Universal binary patches for its best-selling Doom 3 and The Sims 2 games for Macintosh Computers running on Intel chips.
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February 4th, 2006, 09:08 PM
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February 24th, 2006, 09:48 PM
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| Railroad Tycoon's minimum requirements are a 400MHz + processor, 256MB RAM, and 32MB Video RAM. It ran pretty much perfectly for me on my old G3 900MHz iBook @ 1064x768 on the battery (reduced processor speed), so an Intel Mac should handle it fine (even under emulation) in term of power. Whether or not it shares any sound or video issues is another question.
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March 2nd, 2006, 10:46 PM
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| Rosetta DOES now emulate Altivec. As of 10.4.3 (one url: http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2005/...30003205.shtml) Speaking of Railroad Tycoon (3? the newest, whatever it is), I'm thinking of getting it. Anyone have opinions on the quality of the game? Doug
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