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Originally Posted by greffov
gaming? is it possible on a Mac? wow!
/me gets all excited!
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Since you're excited, I'll post it a day early
Next, in the "Horrible, horrible upgrade" series of entertaining stories, I give you the epic quest of installing Alpha Centauri on a Mac!
So, my friend has a Mac. At this point in my life, I'd had nothing but bad experiences with them (And hey, OS-X wasn't out so they still sucked hardcore... Yes, OS-X has changed that. They don't suck anymore. The point is they did!), so anything he did to remind me that he had a Mac, I comforted him.
So he goes to the Mac store, and sees that Sid Meier has come out with a new game: Alpha Centauri! It's futuristic, and spacey, and diplomatic, and all the goodness of Sid Meier's more famous game, Civilization. He asks the guy at the Mac store "Can my computer run it?", and lists the model number. "Suuuure!" the salesman responds, "Now give us money". Being a good Mac user, he did just that.
But what's this? The salesman didn't say, but MacOS 7 was incapable of running the game! He had to upgrade to MacOS 7.6 (Yes, both of those sucked, still suck, and will always suck). So, being a good Mac user, he goes back to the Mac Store, buys the $150 upgrade, and installs.
But what's this? Oh noes! MacOS 7.6 doesn't like his CD-ROM drive! In Apple's usual infinite wisdom, they decided to break the drive to force him to upgrade so that whatever minor, arcane issue the Drive might have caused wouldn't bother him. Well, damnit. He just installed MacOS 7.6 via CD, but now he couldn't install Alpha Centauri from ITs CD.
So, being a good little Mac user, he runs back to the Apple store yet again, and they happily replace his CD drive. $400 later, he takes the computer back home. Hurray! No more barriers to playing Alpha Centauri! And it only cost him $600!
So, he loads up the disk, it installs, and it starts running... very, very badly.
Turns out the processor was to slow to play the game in the first place. Mac salesman conveniently ignored that fact.
Friend chucked his Mac and swore to never buy one again.
The end.