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C&C alternative finally

May 17, 2013 in Soapbox | No comments

Apart form Trainz the only other thing I really liked was Command & Conquer not any of the first person shooters but the strategy based ones. All of the old ones, especially Tiberium Sun, wouldn’t run properly on later machines. When I went apple and installed the Parallels VM I considered installing he windoze games so that I could play them again. I have VM setup for windoze to test IE8/10 for Channelpace.

But a game called ‘Company of Heroes’ which has been around for a while was ported to Mac with all three editions available, it was available on the Apple store but the download of 12gigs over the satellite wasn’t on, picked a DVD version up from eBay for less than $20 and I must say that the game is quite enjoyable, not too much overkill with the graphics, the music is not intrusive and the game play it very interesting .. translation I keep getting my forces killed. I tend to play one scenaro a day while pondering more coding specs for Channelpace.

If you are into C&C and have not looked at Company of Heros give it a go .. available for Windoze and Mac

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Moving to the Dark Side of the Force

December 13, 2012 in Soapbox | Permalink

RBR was about the only thing that kept me running a WinDoze box. The history is a bit of fun, if you are a tech head like me, my first personal computer was a TRS-80 Model I (16k) it was a nice piece of kit for the day, when the Apple came out and later the IBM-PC there was no way known I would move from my trusty, then, TRS-80 Model IV. Eventually though my BBS needed more lines, more grunt and so on and I swapped over to custom made (ie by me) machines. Had a huge Novel server, a home brew multi-stacker CD system that had about 24 disks available. When the Mac’s came out it was no way I am paying that much for a second rate computer.

Well there is no doubt that Apple are still expensive, but they have one huge thing going for them. They just work, ChannelPace just bought me a Macbook Pro I plugged it in entered about two bits of information told it to import my iMac stuff and that was it all done in about a minute. Compare that to having a new Windoze box arrive it takes more than a minute for them to boot usually.

I still have a swag of stuff that only runs on WinDoze but I am sure that now I am totally converted to the dark side I will find comparable utilities and eventually the MS stuff will be shut down. Oh of course should I mention that generally any application is also so simple to install? The other thing that really makes things easy is that all of the machines, like the iPad, share contacts and other information without me needing to worry about it … do you think I might start talking like Darth Vader!

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