'Sierra' for Rocket Dock With 4 Different Style. Suitable for Mac OS X 'Sierra' Visual Styles. Next, please make a Mac OS Catalina skin for the RocketDock. Brief Overview of Rocket Pro for Mac OS X Rocket Pro for Mac is an impressive application that works in the background and provides you the option to use Slack-style emoji in any of the app installed in your Mac. The emoji collection can be browsed by using the trigger key and name of the figurine you need to use.
For anyone who clings to Linux or MacOS as a preferred gaming platform, Epic Games and Psyonix offered a rare kind of bad news on Thursday. The companies confirmed that their mega-hit game Rocket League would no longer receive updates for either platform following a 'final' patch for all non-Windows versions on PC coming in 'early March.'
This 'end-of-life' version of Rocket League on Linux and MacOS will still function in a wholly offline state, and affected players will be able to access whatever cosmetics and add-ons they'd previously earned through the game's economy system (but no more new ones). Additionally, those platforms will be able to use Steam Workshop content, but only if it's downloaded and applied to the game before the March patch goes live.
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Otherwise, if any function in the game connects even in the slightest to the Internet—from item shops to matchmaking to private matches to friends lists—it will stop working once the March patch goes live, and any future modes, maps, or other game-changing content won't come to their platforms, either.
The announcement suggests that MacOS users buy a Windows OS license and run future online versions of Rocket League through Apple Boot Camp. It also suggests that Linux players should try Steam Proton or Wine to do the same thing. 'These tools are not officially supported by Psyonix,' the guide points out.
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Psyonix's announcement vaguely places the blame for this upcoming change on 'adapting to use new technologies,' which 'has made it more difficult to support macOS and Linux (SteamOS).' Nothing else in the article clarifies what those technologies might be.
The Epic Games Store launcher and its mega-popular free-to-play game Fortnite have yet to receive a Linux port, but both executables come in a MacOS flavor. We're not sure if the same 'new technologies' in question will ever affect Fortnite, which has been built in Unreal Engine 4, as opposed to RL's use of Unreal Engine 3.
Advertisement This news differs from the usual question of whether an in-development game will or will not work on non-Windows platforms. We can't think of many popular games that have worked on Linux and MacOS and then had that perk removed. That said, it's not hard to find developers who might defend dumping support for non-Windows platforms, whether because MacOS has waved goodbye to 32-bit support or because customer-support tickets for Linux players are allegedly quite disproportionate to the platform's sales.This news comes long after Valve's vocal efforts to create a Linux-only SteamOS slowed and while Google is reigniting the conversation by requiring Linux and Vulkan support for all its Stadia streaming titles.
Update, January 27: In the days since this announcement, Psyonix has issued a more technical breakdown of the reason for this March 2020 change. Rocket League's update roadmap includes plans to jump from DirectX 9 to DirectX 11 and plans to update from a 32-bit executable to a 64-bit one. The DirectX jump seems to be the stickier point:
To keep these versions functional, we would need to invest significant additional time and resources in a replacement rendering pipeline such as Metal on macOS or Vulkan/OpenGL4 on Linux. We'd also need to invest perpetual support to ensure new content and releases work as intended on those replacement pipelines.
And that's when the team was frank with its non-Windows players: they only make up 0.3% of 'active' players. 'Given that, we cannot justify the additional and ongoing investment in developing native clients for those platforms, especially when viable workarounds exist like Bootcamp or Wine to keep those users playing.' Psyonix didn't define what 'active' meant, nor whether that percentage was for all Rocket League players (including consoles) or only its PC playerbase.
This statement came as part of an official refund offer to affected Linux and MacOS players, so long as they follow a specific series of steps to request their money back.
| Crystal Crazy | |
|---|---|
| Publisher(s) | Casady & Greene |
| Platform(s) | Classic Mac OS |
| Release | 1993 |
| Genre(s) | Action game |
Crystal Crazy is an action game, published by Casady & Greene for the Classic Mac OS in 1993. It is the sequel to Crystal Quest.[1] The aim of the game is to collect crystals. Unlike Crystal Quest, which included a 'Critter Editor,' Crystal Crazy has no functionality for easily editing aspects of the game such as the enemy graphics.[2]
Versions of Crystal Crazy before 1.05 do not have sound on PowerPC-based Macintoshes. The last version is 1.06. It is not possible to play this game on Intel-based Macs without an emulator (a technique that would work with any modern operating system).
Gameplay[edit]
The player commands a spaceship piloted by a cow. When all in-game lives are expended, a cutscene depicts a cow in a spaceship, flying across the screen, towing a banner that says, 'In space, no one can hear you moo.'
The Epic Games Store launcher and its mega-popular free-to-play game Fortnite have yet to receive a Linux port, but both executables come in a MacOS flavor. We're not sure if the same 'new technologies' in question will ever affect Fortnite, which has been built in Unreal Engine 4, as opposed to RL's use of Unreal Engine 3.
Advertisement This news differs from the usual question of whether an in-development game will or will not work on non-Windows platforms. We can't think of many popular games that have worked on Linux and MacOS and then had that perk removed. That said, it's not hard to find developers who might defend dumping support for non-Windows platforms, whether because MacOS has waved goodbye to 32-bit support or because customer-support tickets for Linux players are allegedly quite disproportionate to the platform's sales.This news comes long after Valve's vocal efforts to create a Linux-only SteamOS slowed and while Google is reigniting the conversation by requiring Linux and Vulkan support for all its Stadia streaming titles.
Update, January 27: In the days since this announcement, Psyonix has issued a more technical breakdown of the reason for this March 2020 change. Rocket League's update roadmap includes plans to jump from DirectX 9 to DirectX 11 and plans to update from a 32-bit executable to a 64-bit one. The DirectX jump seems to be the stickier point:
To keep these versions functional, we would need to invest significant additional time and resources in a replacement rendering pipeline such as Metal on macOS or Vulkan/OpenGL4 on Linux. We'd also need to invest perpetual support to ensure new content and releases work as intended on those replacement pipelines.
And that's when the team was frank with its non-Windows players: they only make up 0.3% of 'active' players. 'Given that, we cannot justify the additional and ongoing investment in developing native clients for those platforms, especially when viable workarounds exist like Bootcamp or Wine to keep those users playing.' Psyonix didn't define what 'active' meant, nor whether that percentage was for all Rocket League players (including consoles) or only its PC playerbase.
This statement came as part of an official refund offer to affected Linux and MacOS players, so long as they follow a specific series of steps to request their money back.
| Crystal Crazy | |
|---|---|
| Publisher(s) | Casady & Greene |
| Platform(s) | Classic Mac OS |
| Release | 1993 |
| Genre(s) | Action game |
Crystal Crazy is an action game, published by Casady & Greene for the Classic Mac OS in 1993. It is the sequel to Crystal Quest.[1] The aim of the game is to collect crystals. Unlike Crystal Quest, which included a 'Critter Editor,' Crystal Crazy has no functionality for easily editing aspects of the game such as the enemy graphics.[2]
Versions of Crystal Crazy before 1.05 do not have sound on PowerPC-based Macintoshes. The last version is 1.06. It is not possible to play this game on Intel-based Macs without an emulator (a technique that would work with any modern operating system).
Gameplay[edit]
The player commands a spaceship piloted by a cow. When all in-game lives are expended, a cutscene depicts a cow in a spaceship, flying across the screen, towing a banner that says, 'In space, no one can hear you moo.'
The general objective of Crystal Crazy is to collect all the crystals on a given stage, and often to complete other quests, then escape through an opening at the bottom of the screen.[3] At higher levels, the opening will change size at a fixed rate.
Quests include erasing or revealing paintings by navigating the spaceship over the canvas; knocking pool balls into the exit opening; breaking wine glasses and other fragile objects against the edge of the screen;[3] or simply defeating all the enemies on a given level.
Bonuses, which add to the player's numeric score, are often scattered across the levels and can be collected.
Occasionally, a bonus round tasks the player with collecting as many items as possible, before escaping through the exit opening, while avoiding being crushed by two walls converging from either side of the screen. The player's performance during bonus rounds adds to their score.
Moving the mouse directs the spaceship in the appropriate direction. Clicking the mouse fires the spaceship's weapon. By default, the weapon releases one fixed-direction projectile per click. Power-ups enable the player to shoot multiple or homing projectiles, or add to the player's defensive capabilities, bestowing upon them various types of shields.[1] Hitting enemies with projectiles weakens them, and enemy-launched projectiles can destroy the player's spaceship.
The player can use a limited number of bombs, denoted by a cherry bomb icon, to destroy all on-screen enemies. Advanced levels include mines that will destroy the player's spaceship upon contact.
As the player progresses, the enemies, portrayed as simple, pixelated sprites, become faster and develop the ability to shoot various projectiles. At higher stages, asteroids will float across the screen to impede the player, and can be destroyed piece-by-piece by shooting them with projectiles.
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Reception[edit]
Computer Gaming World in March 1994 stated that Crystal Crazy 'shows how to do a sequel right' and 'just as fun' as 'its hallowed predecessor'.[4]
References[edit]
- ^ abPeterson, Franklynn; K-Turkel, Judi (1995-02-05). '3 PROGRAMS FOR THE MAC OFFER SOME HITS AND MISSES'. Deseret News. Retrieved 2015-09-15.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ^Farkas, Bart (1995-11-01). The Macintosh Bible Guide to Games. Peachpit Press. p. 159. ISBN9780201883817.
- ^ abCohen, Peter (2001-03-30). 'Classic games for new OS coming from Casady & Greene'. Macworld. Retrieved 2017-09-09.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ^Winship, Douglas A. (March 1994). 'The New Age Of Crystal Power'. Computer Gaming World. pp. 106, 108.
External links[edit]
- Crystal Crazy at GameFAQs
