Fallout hits the Mac!

Kreegle · Post by **Kreegle** » Mon Aug 19, 2002 1:22 am

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Stop your weeping, Mac OS X users! Your salvation is here at last: <a href="http://www.macplay.com/games/fallout.shtml" target="_blank">Fallout</a> is back and growling menacingly! <blockquote>Product Description: The world has been blown into a permanent nuclear winter following World War III. Survivors live in underground concrete vaults - safe from the radiation which still infects the planet. The HÃƒâ€šÃ‚Â²O system, however, is in danger of contamination and now someone needs to venture out from Vault 13. That someone is you! System Requirements <li>Mac OS X 10.1.4 or later <li>128MB RAM <li>600MB Disk Space Features: <li>Remember WastelandÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚Â¢? Fallout creates a classic old school role-playing experience with all-new depth and complexity. <li>Over 50 mini-quests with multiple solutions take you through devastated wastelands such as Red Scorpion dens , Junktown and the Brotherhood of Steel. <li>Meticulous turn-based combat system lets you target specific body parts to wound, cripple, or kill as you see fit.

Make your own character or start with one of three pre-generated types: Diplomatic, Deceptive, and Combative. <li>Victims don't just perish - they get cut in half, melt into a pile of goo and explode like a blood sausage into chunks of flesh. <li>Improve your character's skills thru play and receive perks tailored to your character's abilities. <li>If you agitate someone with your comments, they'll look and act agitated - and remember that encounter. Depending on the player's choice of conversation topics, characters will look happy, normal and/or angry.</blockquote>Check out this screenshot here: <blockquote><center><a href="http://www.macplay.com/games/bdimages/fallout04.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.macplay.com/games/bdimages/f ... quote>That floating text is crazy! And not very nice looking! Anyway, time to pull out your wallets, Mac owners... the link you're after is here <a href="http://www.macplay.com/games/fallout.shtml" target="_blank">here.</a> Big thanks to our man Dan, the king of Fallout on Mac, for showing us the latest.

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Mon Aug 19, 2002 1:58 am

I think the text is pretty darn dope.

VasikkA · Post by **VasikkA** » Mon Aug 19, 2002 2:15 am

That caught my attention too.

Spazmo · Post by **Spazmo** » Mon Aug 19, 2002 2:19 am

Now I can force my Mac-using friend to buy Fallout! He can't use that 'oh, but it's only on PC' argument anymore...

Rosh · Post by **Rosh** » Mon Aug 19, 2002 2:22 am

Wasn't Fallout already released on Macintrash?

Also, I agree. That floating text looks like ass.

Spazmo · Post by **Spazmo** » Mon Aug 19, 2002 2:41 am

Yeah but (evidently) not in a MacOS X version. Wasn't there some talk of new art/sprites for the Mac version of the Fallout games?

the guardian · Post by **the guardian** » Mon Aug 19, 2002 2:42 am

they sure took their freaking time

2 years ago i tried to give fallout to a friend of mine... it turned out he was using a mac

now he too gets a chance to play the exellent game

yay

Saint_Proverbius · Post by **Saint_Proverbius** » Mon Aug 19, 2002 3:23 am

Why does it require 128MB of RAM?

Spazmo · Post by **Spazmo** » Mon Aug 19, 2002 3:47 am

Good question. The real thing runs on 16 MB, I think. Maybe they had to add a lot of stuff for it to work in MacOS X. Or maybe they've added some stuff to the game so that it will make use of the higher quantities of RAM that are now commonplace. Better pathfinding AI or something. But I doubt that would account for octupling the RAM requirement...

Darwin_187 · Post by **Darwin_187** » Mon Aug 19, 2002 4:27 am

It wouldn't.

I'm guessing ome kind of memory-eating emulator program... or maybe, just maybe improved graphics/gameplay/etc. But probably not.

spyder07 · Post by **spyder07** » Mon Aug 19, 2002 4:39 am

That looks like trash. Who has a Mac anyways.

Strap · Post by **Strap** » Mon Aug 19, 2002 4:43 am

heheh, i love this line: its on the origional box too
that blood sausage part really makes me laugh

Victims don't just perish - they get cut in half, melt into a pile of goo and explode like a blood sausage into chunks of flesh.

Constipated BladeRunner · Mon Aug 19, 2002 6:24 am

OPEAN YOUR EYES!
THIS IS AN IMENENT SING OF THE THIRD COMING- OF FALLOUT!
PRAISE CHRIS AVELLONE!

the guardian · Post by **the guardian** » Mon Aug 19, 2002 6:29 am

i think the odds of me buying you a pony are higher

Constipated BladeRunner · Mon Aug 19, 2002 6:42 am

THINK ABOUT IT- WHAT OTHER REASON IS THERE?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
IT IS IMMINENT!
ALL THOSE WHO THOUGHT NOUGHT SHALL BURN IN THE DEEPEST DEPTHS OF THE LOWEST HELLS!
ALL CRITISIM WILL DISSIPATE!
THE HOLLOW WORDS OF THE DOUBT FUL ADMINS SHALL HAVE THE TOUNGE THAT SPAKE THEM RIPPED OUT!
HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

Red · Post by **Red** » Mon Aug 19, 2002 6:47 am

If the MVE player was propritery to IPLY/BIS then maybe they could port/use it on MacOSX and they used some lame propriatary solution that requires plenty of RAM... It's the only thing I can think of which could take significant space...

So well, it's either that or they're crappy coders...

Rosh · Post by **Rosh** » Mon Aug 19, 2002 9:58 am

Red wrote: So well, it's either that or they're crappy coders...

There is nobody else to the scale of Interplay that has earned my contempt through their sheer levels of incompetence of QA and programming integrity. Nobody.

4too · Post by **4too** » Tue Aug 20, 2002 9:11 am

Mac OS 10 is some sort of Linux Clone.

I anticipate, if I want to use my
scsi's via FWB third party software I'll have to upgrade that too.

Assuming OS 10 will function on a Biege G3.

The "patch" OS 10.2 is out soon or now, but the memory useage may be the same.

Mac Linux?
Possibly an emulator in an emulator?
Still using SDRAM too, in the latest Mac's. How fast is the buss? Pci's up to 66 mhz yet? Ram-Buss that a choke point for the reputed Go-to-hell (fast) Mac processors?

A.K.A. a giant RAM DISK?

4too

Red · Post by **Red** » Tue Aug 20, 2002 8:04 pm

I don't know much about Mac or OSX but here's what I do know:

OSX is based on BSD, not linux, though BSD is based on a certaain type of *nixes...

The main BUS on Mac is still 33mhx PCI, apart from one slot (usually reserved for the video card, though you could put other stuff in there) running at 66...

The "Copper" (I think that's what it's called) interface (and all other OS9 and older) is indeed "emulated", but the OSX designed apps aren't, so that isn't a problem... I'm hoping that the Mac port actually uses OSX rather then the old system - specially since the port is designed only yo run on OSX...

Finally, from what I understand, OSX should run on any of the G processors... your G3 included.