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Originally Posted By: Danny the Fool Originally Posted By: Master1 Can't you play all ipod/iphone games on the ipad? Yes, but they look like crap if they don't support the iPad's native resolution. Retina apps also run in the lower old iPhone resolution (unless you jailbreak your iPad and use retinapad). And that's the real scam, Retina supported apps have assets already in place that are high enough resolution for iPad. Doubled iPhone apps should use retina assets by default on the iPad. Companies like Square are double scamming with separate versions of apps for iPhone and iPad when the iPhone apps support retina resolution. I'm not going to pay 16 dollars twice for Final Fantasy III when you already have high resolution assets in the flippin iPhone retina supported app.

iPad 2 has finally arrived. Hit me Jeff Vogel, hit me.

Originally Posted By: Nikki. (As an aside, I will be buying my copy directly from Jeff, because I want to be able to play on both OS X and Windows, and I'm happy to pay the extra to do so. If I were going to play just on one system though, of course I'd save the £~3 and buy from the app store. In my mind this would be a great justification for the "discount" on the App Store. You're only getting licensing for the Macintosh version. Boosh, less perceived value in my mind. As I occasionally play these things on a PC in the basement and I'm obsessive compulsive about physical disks I'll continue to buy direct from the source. Of course I'd rather Jeff finagle getting his games on Steam as far as digital distribution goes. SteamPlay apps go a long way in a lot of folks minds.

@The Mystic you are probably right, my memory was hazy. I tossed the things as soon as I got them and I haven't gotten a Disk from Spiderweb in a couple three years. Was meaning to get the second Avernum Trilogy on disk but haven't gotten around to it yet. At any rate they didn't fit well on my shelves regardless.

Originally Posted By: Dintiradan Oh Dantius. You've made my day. I kinda miss box art (and the artwork on vinyl record covers, when compared to CD covers), but let's face it -- it was pretty wasteful. My Myst: Masterpiece Edition box is gorgeous, but there's no point in selling a 9" x 10" box that just contains a jewel case. You can pry my ridiculously oversized Starcraft II Collectors box from my cold dead fingers.

Originally Posted By: Kaldurenik I have never heard of round cd cases before either I guess i will have to think about it or make my own box art or something if i do get the game . If i would order it now would i get a pressed disc or one that is not pressed ? Also i think i prefered Avadon My guess is he doesn't have them professionally pressed until he has the Mac/Win versions done.

Originally Posted By: VCH He sent you round CD cases? Since when do round cases exist? @VCH They looked like this.

They are just disks in a plastic case. I replaced the case Jeff used with some square cases, all the ones I got were round and didn't fit on my shelf very well. Depending on when you've bought them some are just burned disks are some are pressed. I generally prefer the pressed disks (for collectors sake) like the trilogy disks.

Originally Posted By: madrigan Can I just install this without losing my saved games? Yes, the Saves are stored in Documents (Spiderweb Software).

Originally Posted By: Benihana I was hoping this would fix the overheating/graphics issues I'm having, but unfortunately no. With the graphics and sound turned as far down as possible (no extra graphics, thousands of colors, lowest resolution), I experience tearing and flashing vertical artifacts. I have the fans running on max and the temperature goes between 75 and 80C. This is a game-killer for me. I'm on a 2006 17" Core Duo MBP with 2.16GHz proc., 2GB RAM, and an ATI Mobility X1600. OS X 10.6.5. I've been playing your games since Exile 1 came out, so I'm really crossing my fingers here. I'd be happy to send any debug logs if that would help. I think Apple had some issues with the X1600 chips they used in some computers. I have an '06 iMac 2.16 Core 2 Duo that went crazy a couple years ago overheating, odd visual tearing and lines. CnC3 was the worst offender of aggravating it. I had applecare at the time and they replaced the logic board with little hassle mentioning something about faulty x1600 cards.

Originally Posted By: FnordCola Seconded on the visual style. The graphics are obviously not tremendously advanced, but I find Avadon to be pretty in a way that Jeff's previous games haven't been. Especially the character portraits and a lot of the environment/terrain graphics. I don't know what it is but the game does feel very polished. Just stuff like the Junk bag, makes the game flow smoothly. Not to mention I am am enamored with the way the game just tiles out to fit my gigantic iMac monitor.

Originally Posted By: Dantius Originally Posted By: brumagem Soooo, does anyone know of a clean copy of XP or 95/8 for download anywhere? Well, there's no legal places to find it on the Internet- Microsoft certainly doesn't release them. And I probably wouldn't trust any sort of torrent or illegal download site, either- too many things that could be wrong, plus I doubt install files for decades-old OS-es aren't exactly in demand. You might want to try hunting an original install cd/floppy on Ebay or something, or seeing if a friend kept his original discs. Beyond that, I have no idea. Microsoft Technet, but it'll cost you a couple hundred bucks for access. http://ow.ly/3lMzd

Originally Posted By: B.J.Earles We don't want the government to tell us what to do with our money, our lives, our businesses, or even our garbage. It's all about keeping personal liberties. They certainly could have fooled me with that one. I'm absolutely behind most Republican fiscal policy, but I just can't get behind the hypocrisy they spin on personal freedom. They certainly vote anti-personal freedom. I don't want the government telling me what I can or can't do, can or can't think. Thus there's nary a Republican I can vote for in modern times...

Originally Posted By: Dintiradan Well, transcribing it would take way too much time, but if you own a scanner, we'd all appreciate you posting the images. I was digging through stuff in storage (aka mom's) that I hadn't even looked at since I went off to college in '01. Now that I have a house I was trying to see what goodies I had back home, unfortunately our basement seeps and I won't be getting it fixed for at least a year so I left everything back home. I will be back over Christmas, I'll grab that issue and scan the articles as a Holiday gift to you all. Cheers, -alex-

Was digging through old MacAddict's while home for the holidays and found this gem in the 13th issue of MacAddict.

I thought A6 was the most accessible Avernum yet. I'm no RPG powergamer by any means, often finding myself drafting unwinable parties in A-5. I've narry had a problem so far in A6, save for entering the occasional battle with a complete lack of strategy. 20 hours in I've not had to retry any battle more than 3 times, and I wouldn't say I have a fantastically built party. I haven't been using skribbane.

Hmmm runs splendidly on my 2.26 w/ 9400 but I'll have to fire it up on the wife's 1.83 to see how it runs.

I'm obsessive compulsive collectivity so I get the CD's and the Books, but the CD's are nice because they are registered. It's not a huge deal to request a new key when needed but I float around computers in my home and it's nice to have the disk to install the registered games.

It defiantly looks like an OpenGL problem, perhaps the Radeon cards in the Cubes don't support some function Jeff is using? I happen to have 2 cubes in storage* that I'm going to dig out when I go back home in a couple weeks see if I can replicate this issue. *By storage I mean mom's house, what else would she do with all those empty rooms now that everyone has moved out, she'd go crazy that's what.

I just tested it on the 2.0 Mini I use in my cold cold Radio Shack (it runs an APRS setup and my logging software). It's on a 1024x768 monitor. Man I have a lot of Macs around here. Maybe the wife is right. Naww that's crazy talk. If you go the reinstall route you can probably do an archive and install which should negate a large portion of the tedious resetting up of the machine. At this point I don't think there are a lot of other options. I'm pullin for you feline monstrosity because this is hand's down the best Spiderweb experience I've ever had. Not that the old 800x600 games didn't scale up well (imacs hardware seems to have fantastic scaling) but extending the world tiles out to the edge of my 20 inch monitor just makes the world feel so large and alive.

I can confirm Geneforge runs spotless in various resolution Windowed and various resolution Fullscreen modes on the following 22" Acer 1680x1050 on Mac Pro (nvidia 7300) 20" iMac 1680x1050 (x1600) 13" MacBook 1280x800 (GMA 950) 15" MacBook Pro(x1600) 1440x900 Are you selecting the native resolution of your monitor on the launch screen? Try as I might I couldn't replicate this on numerous machines. It feels like the game isn't setting the resolution to match the monitor properly. I'm running 10.5.5 on all the aforementioned machines.

WAHHHHHHHHHH I'm rockin the game. I'm a jerk, I know.

OH man, so I couldn't wait til home to get a taste and I booted er up on my 22" 1680x1050, this is what I'm talking about. The best of both worlds, the old retro graphics (these old sprite type graphics have always been more detailed and generally nicer to look at in my opinion) and the sucker scales to my monstrous monitor perfectly. Really top notch.

Color me ordered as soon as I get off work............perhaps I just came down with food poisoning and must go home immediately.

Will there be an option to purchase a printed hint book soon. I like the printed ones, and the last few ones have been really nice (like better than I'm going to get printed on my printer). I probably won't buy the hint book (and I have them all) if I can't get a printed version. Perhaps a service like lulu could print them on demand if Spiderweb doesn't want to buy hintbooks in bulk? I mentioned this in another thread but it wasn't really on topic.