{"id":755,"date":"2004-01-17T12:58:49","date_gmt":"2004-01-17T17:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=755"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2004\/01\/17\/games\/","title":{"rendered":"Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.macsoftgames.com\/products\/halo\/MacSoft-Halo.html\">Halo<\/a> didn&rsquo;t initially work on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mjtsai.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/11\/ibook_g4.html\">iBook G4<\/a>; it would always quit just after showing the splash screen. After some weeks, Greg Grimes at MacSoft figured out that I should copy the &ldquo;shaders&rdquo; folder on the CD into the &ldquo;Halo&rdquo; folder on hard drive. Now it works, and the performance is acceptable on the iBook with everything on low quality, which is more than I as expecting. As to Halo itself? The game was worth the wait, though I&rsquo;m disappointed about the sloppy resolution switching code that messes up all my window positions.\n<\/p>\n\n<p>\nFreshly Squeezed Software has released a <a href=\"http:\/\/nslog.com\/archives\/2004\/01\/17\/rock_star_build_11.php\">public beta<\/a> (1.0 build 10) of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freshlysqueezedsoftware.com\/products\/rockstar\/\">Rock Star<\/a>, a fun Mac game that melds the iPod&rsquo;s music trivia game with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jellyvision.com\">You Don&rsquo;t Know Jack<\/a>-style visuals. The beta seems stable, but you need to be patient when launching it; that took 25 seconds on my machine, and another 20 seconds to load my playlists. <a href=\"http:\/\/nslog.com\/archives\/2003\/04\/08\/deatherage_drivel_on_xs_open_formats.php\">Parsability of XML<\/a> not withstanding, I still think that Apple should open up the APIs that its iApps use to share information.\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Halo didn&rsquo;t initially work on my iBook G4; it would always quit just after showing the splash screen. After some weeks, Greg Grimes at MacSoft figured out that I should copy the &ldquo;shaders&rdquo; folder on the CD into the &ldquo;Halo&rdquo; folder on hard drive. Now it works, and the performance is acceptable on the iBook [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}