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Best Native Mac RTS

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RedTomato said:
Setting up Boot Camp takes a hell of a lot longer than 45 minutes. The first install of Windows, 45 mins yes. Then you've got to go through all the MS updates, which take about 20 to 30 restarts (seriously, no joke), and set up the anti-virus, and update the AV databases etc etc.

This takes at least several hours.

Installing the game of your choice and going through the updates takes a while too.

Then if you happen to go for a month or two without booting Windows, you've got yet more rounds of Windows updates and AV updates and several restarts before the OS is all up to date.

Finally, to learn to play any game well, takes at least several dozen goes at it. That's several dozen rounds of closing all your mac apps, rebooting to windows, playing, then rebooting to mac, and reopening apps.

I have an up to date boot camp, (for work) and it's just a pain. I prefer to go through a separate virtual image in VMWare even tho it's slower.
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Yeah, not sure why MS updates take sooooo long to install.
 
smacky! said:
if you're into STORY, then yes - if you're into pure strategy/gameplay/mods, then no - by far, Zero Hour is the hands down winner in that category...but just my op.
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I respect your opinion, but if Zero Hour is that much better, why its not an e-sport like Starcraft is in Korea?

Why do you think its better?
 
apfhex said:
If he had a PPC Mac, Total Annihilation is arguably the best RTS ever. However I don't think they made a OS X version, and trying to get it to run on an Intel Mac might be harder than just using Bootcamp... if you can even find a copy of the Mac version.
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Agreed. It's a masterpiece. Chess in realtime. Does anyone know if a powerpc version will run on an intel mac?
 
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sotov said:
Agreed. It's a masterpiece. Chess in realtime. Does anyone know if a powerpc version will run on an intel mac?
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here ya go - says Intel 10.4, PPC, etc.

Honestly, it was fun, but CnCG:ZH is still more fun to me - Chess and Battleships and Risk and good ol' plain in your face Zerg rushing beats TBS any day of teh week for me.

The thing about SC and TA, is one's about story, the other's about tactics - ZH is about blowin' **** up. Bush administration-style (LOL!). Build, build build - POW! (this happens to you, too - awesome.) i like to win, but i REALLY like legitimately losing.

Also, if you have the TA Windows disc, you could try porting it yourself...mayeb try the guyzos over at IM. They do wacky stuff like taht all the time!
 
Sorry to resurrect a thread after 6 months, but I'm still hoping maybe there's been a good native RTS that I didn't see since then.

I have a wonky bootcamp installation that I really prefer to not hassle with. All you guys minimizing the hassle of running windows via bc - didn't you all switch to Apple to avoid that? I know that's why I did.

Otherwise guess I just wait for Starcraft II?
 
I opted for the Bootcamp option, Because I discovered a pretty fun game called Steelbeasts. Places you in command of anything up to a regiment of Tanks you can sit in any of the seats lots of different battles to have a crack at Online Battles. Complex but fun and its used by quite a few Armies for training. Expensive but fun. Real time modern battle field strategy a must as having 6 M1's taking pot shots at you leaves you dead quick.
 
I am running bootcamp for games because the windows versions tend to be about 1/2 the price. I just picked up the Starcraft battle chest and was thinking about installing it mac native but It says that it runs in OS 10.4 on PPC macs. It will work on my Intel iMac won't it?
 
apfhex said:
If he had a PPC Mac, Total Annihilation is arguably the best RTS ever. However I don't think they made a OS X version, and trying to get it to run on an Intel Mac might be harder than just using Bootcamp... if you can even find a copy of the Mac version.
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I miss that game sooooooo much.
My CDs don't work on my MBP :/

I'm seriously considering just buying a cheap OS9 Mac just so that I can play that game again.
 
Minute SC:2 reviefw

Just played for an hour or so after a marathon installation process due to no optical disk in my MBP (ssd instead) and i can safely say it is now the king of this category, as it should be. I miss no Lan/spawn support but should be fun for quite a while in single player.
 
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