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Quaking Rhapsodic (12/7/97)
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Whining about the technical deficiencies of the Mac OS is nothing new to id programmer John Carmack, who brought the world classic gore games like Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, and Quake. Ports of all of those games made it to the Mac (eventually), but Quake 2, which just got released on the PC end, is "not going to be on MacOS 8," which Carmack describes as "crusty" and unworthy of his respect. However, it's long bee known that he's a big NeXT fan, and he pledges to "personally port the stuff to Rhapsody and make it a high-quality implementation for people that want to take a step into the future of Apple." Read all about this (and a LOT more) at BootNet.
Personally, we can live with Quake 2 not being on Mac OS 8 if there's a top-notch Rhapsody port. For one thing, recall that Mac OS 9 (Allegro) may include Yellow Box, allowing the Rhapsody version to run. For another thing, what little that we've seen of Quake 2 isn't really all that interesting. We'll reserve final judgement until we actually get to play the thing, of course.
For those of you who realize how important games are to the computer market, you know how crucial it is for a bigwig like John Carmack to embrace Rhapsody. The most interesting statement in the tremendously long interview is when Carmack says that "if Apple doesn't curl up and die and Rhapsody turns out to be everything that it looks like it's going to be, then next year we might jump ship and develop on Rhapsody and port to Windows." Now that we'd love to see.
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Other scenes from that episode: 247: Anyone Wanna Be CEO? (12/7/97) Remember the "single strong candidate" for Apple CEO that Larry Ellison mentioned a while back? Well, whether or not that candidate was Lee Iacocca, he or she has flown the coop, leaving Apple with nobody on deck and a scant four weeks to go until MacWorld Expo, which many consider to be an important deadline by which Apple needs to find a new leader... 248: Bad Timing in Redmond (12/7/97) Hmmm, gotta wonder if the recent planetary alignment had anything to do with the latest Microsoft timing fiasco. Just as they get their day in court to fight for their right to force the installation of Internet Explorer on every Windows 95 computer that ships, an uproar breaks out about how the latest Option Pack for Windows NT requires the installation of that selfsame browser...
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