rct for mac

long time reader....first time poster...
i have an ibook g4...please someone tell me there is a version of rollercoaster tycoon out there for me. i played the original until my eyes fell out of my head but now i have this new computer and need this game! help me please! i checked the apple store to no avail. rct website also was no help. am i out of options?
thanks!

This has already been discussed, but since you are new, I'll let it go this time. ;) I have an iBook G3, and would love to play RCT2 on it, but it is Windows/x86 only, and probably will remain that way.

RCT2 is one of the reasons I still have a Windows machine. One of the primary uses of my Windows computer is RCT2. I use my iBook for just about everything else though, while my PC is mainly for entertainment.

-Sam (who has no right to critique this post, because I am not a Moderator)

Okay. This is why you buy a PC. They have more programs, games, and are all around more compatable. I have an iBook G3 for school and I still use my PC all the time just because PCs work BETTER. They only thing I use the mac for is music and video editing. You have to wonder why the majority of people in America have PCs and make iTunes for PC. Think before buying. Sorry, I am a mean PC user that happens to own a mac.

I was going to say you were crazy, but I think that is obvious. And Macs ARE PCs. PC means Personal Computer. My iBook is way better than my Windoes machine, even though I can't play RCT2 on it. Windows just isn't very good compared to OS X. Period. Now compare Windows to the OLD Mac OS, then maybe we have something to talk about.

-Sam

look into a windows emulator for your mac. ive heard they work great-- even better than windows itself... heh. but then im pretty sure you could do anything you could do with windows on your mac. *** i think***

disclaimer: key words-- "IVE HEARD" and "IM PRETTY SURE"

good luck though

okay cool...thanks for the advice. I will continue to play it on my old machine. the laptop will be rollercoaster free :(

thanks again!

I have a Mac and I play RCT and RCT2 just fine. Pick up a copy of Virtual PC and have the best of both worlds. If you have OS X then even better because Virtual PC runs even better in X. My Mac is more stable running virtual PC than a real PC is.

I think you guys just talked me into buying a Mac instead of a PC when I get a new computer this year. My roomate has a Mac, and I can easily tell it is much better quality than any windows maching.

The only reason I wanted to buy a PC was because I didn't think/know that Virtuial PC worked very well. If it is MORE stable than windows on a PC, I am sold on a Mac. RCT is very importiant to me.

Thanks, I can now join the underdogs knowing it is the right decision.

all Mac systems have been technically more stable than any Windows version... (especially Windows ME). I mean, didn't OS X have only its first and only virus a couple weeks ago? There are already countless ones for Windows. Getting a Windows emulator would be a good idea for any mac user, but VirtualPC I heard was the best basically PC emulator out there.

We have a G4 iBook and I love it. We don't own it to play games though, it's for word processing, travel and DVD's on the road.

RCT 1 & 2 were written specifically for Intel CPU's, so there's no easy way to port it to the Mac.

I did't know the Macintosh was a real computer?! ;)

Yawn. I for one am very glad there is no version of RCT for Mac. If there was, I'd never get any work done!

Having a good version of DDR (in StepMania) is quite bad enough!

I never have understtod all the harping on Windows...My main home PC which for everything from MP3's, internet and games hasn't been rebooted for over a month - and that reboot was done because I was upgrading my electric service from 100A to 200A.

I run RCT on my Mac, but its the first RCT with loopy landscpaes and I run it on Virtual PC, unfortunatly, it runs slowly.

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didn't OS X have only its first and only virus a couple weeks ago? There are already countless ones for Windows.

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This is not necessarily indicative of anything. There are many fewer OS X boxen out there, and so OS X is a less popular target.

I do have a soft spot in my heart for OS X though---I'm glad to see that Avi's work has finally found the marketplace. After watching those poor Mach folks port the kernel to ever more obscure machines (the Omron 88 anyone?) it's good to see it as more than the bolted-on hack-job of a VM system in the BSD 4.4 line.

I'm perfectly happy with my Windows PC. It performs all the tasks I want, supports virtually all software and games, and in my opinion is much more user friendly. It's a Sony VAIO and has it's own built in TV tuner with a cable port.

I really don't see the appeal that some see in Macs. Having used OS X Macintosh computers here at college, it really has just affirmed my distaste for their computers. I still don't understand the circular one-button mouse...how about a hand-shaped mouse.

I use a Microsoft Wheel Mouse Optical with my iBook, and it works fine. The crappy mouse they ship is one of the few bad things about the Mac. Personally, if I get a Mac desktop any time soon, I will hopefully get a Logitech mouse to go with it.

Oh, and from what I hear, the optics on Apple's mouse are much better than on Microsoft's

Anyway, back on topic:

RCT2 is one of the primary uses of my Windows machine. Except at work, where I use Windows, I do most of my web browsing, emailing, and actual work on the Mac. It is nice not having RCT2 for the Mac, because I don't need it on a school/work machine.

I don't use Virtual PC because I have a Windows machine at home, and I have access to 2 others there, plus a Linux machine and another Mac.

I personally, would like to continue run both platforms, at least for the time being. Although I prefer OS X to Windows, I still have a lot of old DOS and Windows stuff, so I like being able to use both.

Besides, No Limits has a Mac version, and it runs surprizingly well on my iBook, which is only 700Mhz and has only 16mb of video RAM.

-Sam

I bought my 1.25 GHz PowerBook G4 two months ago (agh they just released new ones today for cheaper, oh well, that's the computer world for you ;)) and NoLimits runs pretty good on my laptop but alas I rarely game.

To those who run RCT/RCT2 under Windows on VPC, do you use Windows XP as the guest operating system? I have that installed but it feels so slow. Maybe I should install Windows 98 instead?

A bit off topic, but I felt I had to reply. Brian Noble, the virus situation is really thanks to the design of the Macintosh operating system built on UNIX. Even if there was a virus, it probably wouldn't do much because oftentimes you're not the administrator. The "virus" they came out with a few weeks ago is really just an old Mac OS classic culprit (has nothing to do with Mac OS X except Mac OS X had to have some backwards compatibility), and it was a proof of concept, nothing dangerous. Now on Windows you have a completely different story. :)

Personally, I've never used a Mac. But, I find that Windows XP runs very well. IMO, the older versions of Widows were the ones that are crap.

XP may run well, but it is annoying as hell. I want to be the one that is annoying, not my computer. The annoyance is one of the main reasons I don't like Windows xp.

OS X is great, but both Windows and the Mac have their strengths and weaknesses. That is why it is nice to have both.

-Sam