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Does anyone still play Halo on the Mac?

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volcomjerk

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I just saw this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcQ7RkyBoBc

and it made me want to play Halo on my mac even though I'm so use to 3 on my 360 Halo is still very much the same game it would be cool to have it on the go on my MacBook Pro.

Does anyone know if people still play this on the mac and run servers? If so I'm definitely gonna run down to the Apple store tomorrow and pick up a copy.
 
I just pull my copy of Halo out yesterday and installed everything. I just really felt like playing through the campaign.
 
Just Played Halo Yesterday

There was a new Halo update released very recently that allows you to play Halo without the CD in the drive anymore. After downloading, I ended up playing for 3 hours. Haven't done that in a while.
 
I was thinking of purchasing the game, but I have TF2, Bioschock, CoD4, Crysis all to enjoy on my new MP (when it arrives GRRRRRRR).

An online MAC shooter would be fun though :(
 
I would normally just enjoy it on the PC side but I just removed boot camp to free up space and I just want to stay Mac 100% of the time. I only used Windows to play games. Perhaps one day Parallels gets good enough to run almost as well as native Windows for games.
 
volcomjerk said:
I would normally just enjoy it on the PC side but I just removed boot camp to free up space and I just want to stay Mac 100% of the time. I only used Windows to play games. Perhaps one day Parallels gets good enough to run almost as well as native Windows for games.
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You could check Usenet to get the files itself, but you'd need to find a legit CD key. Its a shame you cant legally buy the game for a reasonable price anymore.
 
I still play sometimes--though it has been a while at the moment--and thanks to this new patch, I can even play on my Air with no optical drive! (And it runs pretty well, too.)
 
Installed today, updated.

The only noticeable glitch is there are sometimes black lines, like a box, around guns. Its probably because I have shaders or something turned on. Ill play with my settings
 
Xavier said:
Installed today, updated.

The only noticeable glitch is there are sometimes black lines, like a box, around guns. Its probably because I have shaders or something turned on. Ill play with my settings
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For me thats always happened on the universal version.
 
pianoplayer1 said:
With older versions we could (but no servers are open now because both windows and mac are updated).

With the new 2.0.3 there is a serial for singleplayer but not multiplayer, HOWEVER multiplayer on gameranger does work.
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Yeah, what is going on with this?

Last month, I could play on about 100 servers. But today I tried to play online, there were literally only 2 servers open to me.

I heard something about a software update.

Is this a permanent thing? All my favourite servers (BBT MODS baby!) don't seem available to me anymore.
 
I have Halo but thing cannot run on my Mac ( snow leopard) Does anyone know how to launch or play halo on mac
 
Xavier said:
Its more of ashame that the game isn't being produced for the Mac anymore.
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You can thank Microsoft for that. Bungie used to design games for our platform exclusively, and eventually started PC-porting games.

Then Microsoft bought them out, and switched all of their development over to the XBox. We were lucky to have a port of Halo, years late from the original release.

Standard said:
Anyone have any news if EA is going to develop more games for OS X or were those 6 it?
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Most of their Mac releases can be found on Steam now. I've been playing Team Fortress, which I snagged over it's free to download weekend (sort of like the App store does), and Left 4 Dead 2 lately.
 
Outstanding game! I've just started playing through the campaign again on my iMac, thought it best to give it another run through now before Lion as I'm assuming that it won't run on the new OS :(

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