lock-on on mac?

[Haegar]

I working since many years in several publishing companys as systemadmin, most of the companys are working with MACs and I have to say it is a much more productive surrounding than having PCs instead.

Depends on what you want to do with your computers of course, but for the most fields of activities I would by MACs ... not PCs.

[Pilotasso]

Of course its much more productive, with so little support for software even minesweeper doesnt work on it so whats left for the employess is to work not to play on the JOB. ;) Have you ever thought about that reason why have MAC at work? :D

[Mugatu]

hehe pick one!

 

http://www.pure-mac.com/puzzle.html

 

Of course its much more productive, with so little support for software even minesweeper doesnt work on it so whats left for the employess is to work not to play on the JOB. ;) Have you ever thought about that reason why have MAC at work? :D

[Haegar]

Of course its much more productive, with so little support for software even minesweeper doesnt work on it so whats left for the employess is to work not to play on the JOB. ;) Have you ever thought about that reason why have MAC at work? :D

 

Have you ever heard people who worked with MACs suddenly forced to work with PCs ... even if minesweeper is installed?

 

You won't to ... :music_whistling:

[Kula66]

They are also an absolute pig to disassemble ... loads of screws! Cases are easy to scratch and then look terrible. No mouse nipple, no right click or mouse wheel ... how to those people survive!

 

The OS doesn't suffer the bloat that afflicts MS OSs ... yet, and only has less viruses because few people use them and therefore aren't targetted ... yet.

 

They do look pretty though and has a decent kernel lurking under that GUI. :)

[H4rM]

My best friend has bootcamp (multi-boot utility) loaded on his MacBook Pro (17" laptop) with WindowsXP Pro, and when he boots into XP he has all of his windows games loaded (GTR2, GRAW2, Crysis, COD4, LockON:FC, Falcon4 Allied Force) and they all run flawlessly and they run very well and fast! I am amazed at how fast and efficient his MacBookPro is running games on it, which is the only reason he has a WinXP Pro partition on it...for the games only. The rest of the time when he isn't playing games he is in OSX (soon to be Leapord as he just bought it).

 

So YES, LockON:FC plays extremely well on a MacBook Pro.

For reference: his laptop has 2Gb of ram in it, the 2.60 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo cpu in it with the NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT video card with 256MB SDRAM on it.

:thumbup:

[britgliderpilot]

My best friend has bootcamp (multi-boot utility) loaded on his MacBook Pro (17" laptop) with WindowsXP Pro, and when he boots into XP he has all of his windows games loaded (GTR2, GRAW2, Crysis, COD4, LockON:FC, Falcon4 Allied Force) and they all run flawlessly and they run very well and fast! I am amazed at how fast and efficient his MacBookPro is running games on it, which is the only reason he has a WinXP Pro partition on it...for the games only. The rest of the time when he isn't playing games he is in OSX (soon to be Leapord as he just bought it).

 

So YES, LockON:FC plays extremely well on a MacBook Pro.

For reference: his laptop has 2Gb of ram in it, the 2.60 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo cpu in it with the NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT video card with 256MB SDRAM on it.

:thumbup:

 

Yup.

 

An Apple laptop that's higher in performance than my gaming PC . . . . *sob* . . .

 

I console myself with the knowledge that in order to do that, he had to pay considerably more than twice the price . . . but that machine is a gadget freak's dream.

[Crane137]

I bought a dual-processor iMac with the express intention of playing flight sims and, under XP using bootcamp, it runs just fine. As does Falcon AF for that matter...

 

When I need to do some real work I just reboot into Mac and so have the best of both worlds :-)

[graywo1fg]

I am SO glad to hear that :D i am as we speak loading XP onto my Macbook pro 17" widescreen with the boot camp utility :D i'm at 84 percent in formatting right now :thumbup:

 

 

My best friend has bootcamp (multi-boot utility) loaded on his MacBook Pro (17" laptop) with WindowsXP Pro, and when he boots into XP he has all of his windows games loaded (GTR2, GRAW2, Crysis, COD4, LockON:FC, Falcon4 Allied Force) and they all run flawlessly and they run very well and fast! I am amazed at how fast and efficient his MacBookPro is running games on it, which is the only reason he has a WinXP Pro partition on it...for the games only. The rest of the time when he isn't playing games he is in OSX (soon to be Leapord as he just bought it).

 

So YES, LockON:FC plays extremely well on a MacBook Pro.

For reference: his laptop has 2Gb of ram in it, the 2.60 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo cpu in it with the NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT video card with 256MB SDRAM on it.

:thumbup:

[Kaos]

Hi Guys, I recently bought an IMac and set Boot camp. Have fired up BS and it looks stunning in full 2560 x 1440 res on a 27" screen but couldn't get the sound to work:joystick:.... any ideas to sort this problem would be MUCH appreciated!:thumbup:

[element1108]

I've been using bootcamp to fly lockon and black shark (FSX, ARMA 2, RISE OF FLIGHT ETC) for the past two years and it's been great, no complaints or problems. (Macbook Pro). The only thing you may need is a USB extension, hotas, mouse and tracker IR take up 3 out of the 2 slots available on the computer, but it's a $15 solution :)

 

As far as the sound goes KAOS, no idea. For me everything was plug and play. Do you have other PC games on there? Does the sound work? What version of windows are you using?

 

EDIT: I would never buy a mac for a "gaming machine" no way. You can build your own more powerful system for way cheaper that's for sure. But a lot of mac users who buy mac enjoy the entire mac experience. The simplicity, design, the innovation, the support etc. I've been using mac exclusively since 2001, both professionally and for entertainment. With bootcamp and the intel chip, Mac's are right up there with PC's as far as 90% of gaming is considered. Perhaps we can't jack the rez or detail level up to extreme on brand new games, but I've had a great simming experience as a side effect of using my professional machine.

 

Note: New Macbook Pro's are using the I7 intel chip... :)

Edited April 17, 2010 by element1108

[galatei]

I bought a new computer , but it is A MAC. can I install lomac in a mac? Do I need to get a mac version of lomac?

 

thanks

Mac is not for games, even Applosoft don't care at all.

I hope no one is gonna waste time for this, especially that it would require a considerable time from Dev team, to write it up in Obective-C - which by the way is a big piece of crap.

 

Mac is for Posh. Posh don't have time for stuff we Windoze/Linux users got used tom and Posh don't play games.

 

:pilotfly:

[element1108]

Mac is not for games, even Applosoft don't care at all.

I hope no one is gonna waste time for this, especially that it would require a considerable time from Dev team, to write it up in Obective-C - which by the way is a big piece of crap.

 

Mac is for Posh. Posh don't have time for stuff we Windoze/Linux users got used tom and Posh don't play games.

 

:pilotfly:

 

that's a gross over generalization man. I'm noT posh but I own a mac. Fact of the matter is you can play any pc game on a mac using bootcamp. I play all my sims on mac, so therefore mac is for games if I choose to use it for games. It is a professional standard in my line of work and being "posh" has nothing to do with it.

 

 

There is no need to develope a game specifically for apple these days when you can run games native speed with bootcamp.

[EtherealN]

I'm more upset about him using a slash to bind Windows and Linux together... :P

[Zorrin]

Gotta say FC2 and Black Shark run just fine on my 2008 MacBook Pro. Bootcamped with Win 7 and happy ever after. Less hassle than on a genuine PC!

 

Edit: I wonder if galatai realises that the quote he has quoted is 3 years old....?

[c0ff]

We do want to make our products cross-platform: Windows, Mac, Linux.

But it's still a long road to go.

 

P.S. I do like Macs ;)

[ericinexile]

I've been playing on my MAC (bootcamping Vista 64) for two years now.

[104th_Money]

1st Gen Mac Pro 2 x 3.0ghz quad core intel xeon and ATI 4870 video card booting up into Windows XP Pro to fly Lomac 1.12 for almost 2.5 yrs now and runs BS and FC 2.0 just fine along with X-plane, FSX, and a few other older flight sims.

[thaFunkster]

Get another hard drive, install Windows on it, play LOMAC. Easy.

[Panzertard]

 

P.S. I do like Macs ;)

Heretic!! ^^ :D

 

Well, it's been a few years since I used Mac OS 9.x myself - but I do remember the good times back in 1990's and the F-18 Hornet simulator for the Mac - on 21" CRT monitor.

Ah, good ol' times. :)

[Kaos]

Thanks for some interesting and WIDE ranging opinions and encouragement Guys.....! I fixed the sound issue simply by changing the default device in sound and audio. Having had the IMac for less than a week , I've still got a lot to learn. LOMAC FC and BS are the only games I'm really interested in loading / playing at this point. What I have to work out now is how to get track IR4 to work... won't recognise the camera?!

To answer some of your questions, I'm runnig windows xp sp3 and the change over to and from OSX and XP couldn't be easier...only weird bit is I have reset my time when I go back to Mac?

ALL NEED now is the time to get things sorted AND FLY! <S

[AV8R]

I tried to run FC2 on my MacBookPro 17" laptop running FUSION and Vista.

 

FC2 installs fine, the demos run fine, but the actually flying does not. It gives this message:

 

"An attempt to use a virtual PC is detected. Please close all PC emulators and try again.

If the error recurs, press "Error report" and send the report to product technical support."

 

I do not have a problem I run SteelBeastsPro this way