In Bed With Ed

A few weeks ago, I wrote about playing retro games on a Mac. 

I’ve been getting back into gaming recently (I used to be a PC user) and tried to run Quake 4 on my MacBook. When I first tried, in September last year, I had no luck at all - it was virtually unplayable. But then Leopard came out and a few months after it came the Leopard Graphics Update. So I decided to try it again.

Now, it actually plays quite well! On modest settings, it is completely playable and enjoyable. It’s not 120 FPS, but who cares if it plays fine, right?

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For most of the summer holidays, I was a little bored with the rather slim pickings available for gamers using Macs. I’m a MacBook (later 2006) user, and my Intel GMA950 isn’t really that great for games. But I still should be able to have some fun! So I went back. Way back. To 1994. Now, I have Doom 1 & 2, Quake 1 & 2 and Duke Nukem 3D running wonderfully, in widescreen glory, on my Macbook. With Doom 3, Quake 4 and UT2004 all here as well (running quite well - more on how I did that later!), I’m quite set up as a mobile gamer.

Everything in this guide was made possible due to the release of the source code by the developers. This has allowed much smarted people than I to make these classic games run on modern computers and platforms. Someone has even converted Doom to the iPod!

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