RCT2 on MACs: any solutions?
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RESIDENT EVIL: BIOHAZARD! Scaring up some HELL only on the NINTENDO GAMECUBE!!!!!
Explains why i'm up at 4am in the morning. Too scaried to sleep!
Not having a Mac, I wouldn't know for sure, but aren't there Windows emulators readily avaliable for this sort of thing?
Of course, you'd have to pay for more than the game itself just to play RCT2...
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"Well, I'm sure I'd feel much worse if I weren't under such heavy sedation." - David St. Hubbins, Spinal Tap
http://www.loopscrew.com
I know, Im disappointed too.
I doubt very much the publisher has to do with anything, seeing as how the same guy wrote the code for both.
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Jeff - Webmaster/Admin - CoasterBuzz.com
"There's nowhere to run, nowhere to hide, when it's all in your mind. You gotta let go." - Ghetto, Supreme Beings of Leisure
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RESIDENT EVIL: BIOHAZARD! Scaring up some HELL only on the NINTENDO GAMECUBE!!!!!
Explains why i'm up at 4am in the morning. Too scaried to sleep!
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Bob Hansen
A proud CoasterBuzz Member
Operation Wicked Twister - Goal: Lose 50 lbs by next season to ride it! (updates soon)
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Dave Bonnetti
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Joe Cernelli, who owns a PC and a Mac
Webmaster, Kennywood Boulevard
"Don't criticize what you can't understand."
Yeah, First I’m on a 1.3ghz P4 Dell Dimension 8100. That's more than a PC. Not to get into a PC vs. Mac fight but from recent experience, Macs are much better than PCs. You never have those problems of needing to download new drivers or version updates just to connect a camera to your PC. You never have to click and shuffle through music when you have an iPod cause when you connect it to your Firewire port "Zip" everything is there! I hated the days of having to use my ass minidisc player or my third party MP3 players; they all sucked compared to my iPod. 5gbs, Firewire, amazing design, and excellent performance all in one!
PCs are in the stage of "the more, power the better." No one needs a computer that has 2.1ghz! The fastest processor I’ve have ever seen in a system requirements is 700mhz. RCT2 needs 300mhz and 64mbs. Not saying you should have the minimum requirements, I'm saying there's no need for a 2.1ghz processor or 1gb of memory. Congratulations, you have the fastest computer on the block. But, will we be able to see a difference between your 2.4ghz P4 with 1gb of memory and my 800mhz G4 with 256mb of memory? I don't think so...
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"Playing- My neck, My back- Khia 1:03 -2:46"
*** This post was edited by nitro230ft on 10/31/2002. ***
Every day I wish I could go 100% Mac, because OS X really is that much better. Unfortunately (or fortunately from an income standpoint) I'm a Microsoft developer with all Windows software, so it wouldn't be practical for me to switch.
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Jeff - Webmaster/Admin - CoasterBuzz.com
"There's nowhere to run, nowhere to hide, when it's all in your mind. You gotta let go." - Ghetto, Supreme Beings of Leisure
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Live. Play. Music. iPod.
"Playing- My neck, My back- Khia 1:03 -2:46"
Let the troubleshooting begin....
It does not support accelerated 3D graphics cards and they say there isn't any plan to support them in the near future.
I just got another Mac (My third Power Mac in 7 years). I had made do with my pre-G3 Power Mac 8600 for 5 years, and it was time to take advantage of the advancements over the years. I really wanted to run OS X--it rocks! So I got a dual G4 867MHz....oh, it's sweat. I may be a loyal mac user, but I refuse to buy an iMac, so I splurged a little, but it was under $2k. Anyway, I was hoping I'd be able to run No Limits under Virtual PC, but alas, no. I do have the licensed personal learning edition of Maya though, so I'll just have to learn to 3D model coasters the hard way.
I had thought about spending much less to get a decent PC so I could run No Limits, but then I remembered how much I hate the Windows environment and how much happier I am when I'm using my Mac over the PC's in the Engineering Lab and at work.
With the power of OS X, a ton of software companies are now producing for the Mac, so be patient. We may get our chance to run RCT yet. Wow this has turned into an Apple "Switch" commercial
My name is Matt Scott and I'm a senior in mechanical engineering.
Heh heh, it's late and I'm still high from my first Rush concert. :)
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-Matt in Iowa (Loyal Mac User)
195 coasters ridden -- Faves: Shivering Timbers, Ghostrider, Twister, Hershey Wildcat, Lightning Racer
Unfortunately, this stinks for people who used it to play smaller, less demanding games like RCT or the other Tycoon games. As far as i can tell, you can only get Virtual PC to emulate up to 4 Megs of VRAM. RCT2 requires 8 (even though it doesn't say so on the box, i e-mailed Infogrames and they confirmed this).
This was severely irritating, but still, i doubt there's anything that can be done. Connectix won't support anything higher, unless 6.0 comes out anytime soon. If you bought a copy expecting to play it on Mac, i'd return it and say that it didn't state the full requrements (i.e. the 8M VRAM) on the box. Although, personally, i kept mine in hopes of finding a friend with a PC that i can "visit" every once in awhile to get a fix. Although i've yet to play it.
Hope this helps, and i'd still never give my mac up for the world, although for once i'm jealous of PC users.
~me
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