New Steam for Mac!

scottystreet · Postby **scottystreet** » Fri May 21, 2010 8:17 am

Recently, Valve released their award wining gaming platform for Mac. This sparks the question: what's IV going to do about it? I know you're busy right now - but this is such a simple job, as all (correct me if i'm wrong) IV games are already ported. Got to run now (school) but this is a project well worth looking at.

Mas Tnega · Postby **Mas Tnega** » Fri May 21, 2010 8:57 am

Simple job, if not for the legal issues.

bert_the_turtle · Postby **bert_the_turtle** » Fri May 21, 2010 9:13 am

I'm sure you're aware that the porting/publishing contract with Ambrosia makes things a little difficult.

Also, boo, Mac Steam is for x86 only.

xander · Postby **xander** » Fri May 21, 2010 4:19 pm

bert_the_turtle wrote:I'm sure you're aware that the porting/publishing contract with Ambrosia makes things a little difficult.

Also, boo, Mac Steam is for x86 only.

Is there anything on Steam that would run on a PPC Mac? Or am I missing something?

xander

Postby **DTNC Vicious** » Fri May 21, 2010 6:41 pm

yes now i can play TF2 without running bootcamp!

bert_the_turtle · Postby **bert_the_turtle** » Fri May 21, 2010 7:58 pm

xander wrote:
bert_the_turtle wrote:Also, boo, Mac Steam is for x86 only.

Is there anything on Steam that would run on a PPC Mac? Or am I missing something?

Plant's vs. Zombies, I think. Which, yeah, isn't on Mac steam yet, probably. But the fact that the games themselves are not ported to PPC (unless they use Assembler code, of course) is part of the complaint. The faint complaint. I realize not many people in their target audience still have PPC Macs.

Postby **DTNC Vicious** » Fri May 21, 2010 8:06 pm

i just downloaded it for my mac, it works great, but the only thing is i went to go play tf2, and i went to my games libary and it wasnt their!, it was gifted to me and now it says it's nowhere, i'm not sure what happened.

RabidZombie · Postby **RabidZombie** » Fri May 21, 2010 8:16 pm

Vicious wrote:i just downloaded it for my mac, it works great, but the only thing is i went to go play tf2, and i went to my games libary and it wasnt their!, it was gifted to me and now it says it's nowhere, i'm not sure what happened.

TF2 isn't out for Mac yet. Because of the beta, it's not showing up in your games list at all, rather than doing the normal thing.

Postby **DTNC Vicious** » Fri May 21, 2010 8:20 pm

ah yes thats why, i was running boot camp when i was playing TF2, no wonder it wasn't showing up

.Thanx

scottystreet · Postby **scottystreet** » Sat May 22, 2010 7:50 am

So... Do I have possitive response from most? (This must be the first time!) IV, get on the phone to Ambrosia ASAP! This is a good opportunity.

I've gone mad buying games for Mac. The general Steam interface is no different, but it runs quite sluggish. Any other thoughts on how it works?

Mas Tnega · Postby **Mas Tnega** » Sat May 22, 2010 11:40 am

It's not that positive. Legal issues are never a simple job.

Flamekebab · Postby **Flamekebab** » Sun May 23, 2010 3:09 am

I want Steam for Linux.

xander · Postby **xander** » Mon May 24, 2010 4:09 pm

Flamekebab wrote:I want Steam for Linux.

Supposedly, that is going to happen soonish.

xander

microchip08 · Postby **microchip08** » Tue May 25, 2010 3:05 am

xander wrote:
Flamekebab wrote:I want Steam for Linux.

Supposedly, that is going to happen soonish.

xander

Is that everyone's "soonish" or Valve's Episode-three-is-almost-ready "soonish"?

xander · Postby **xander** » Tue May 25, 2010 3:10 am

microchip08 wrote:
xander wrote:
Flamekebab wrote:I want Steam for Linux.

Supposedly, that is going to happen soonish.

xander

Is that everyone's "soonish" or Valve's Episode-three-is-almost-ready "soonish"?

Somewhere in the middle. It will probably happen before Duke Nukem Forever comes out.

xander

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