TheGimp
Feb 11, 2006, 11:52 AM
I'm selling used copies of 3 pieces of software:
1) Disk Warrior (version 3.02 - free upgrade available for use in Tiger)
2) Return To Castle Wolfenstein
3) Halo
I purchased all three programs from the Apple Store. All include original disk, manual, box, and original receipts for Disk Warrior and Halo (see photo).
Halo and Return to Castle Wolfenstein both include the serial number required for online multiplayer play. Allthough I used those numbers to play online several years ago, I honestly can't remember the last time I even *thought* about playing either one of those two games online or offline. They're excellent games, two of the best available for the Mac, but they're past their prime by my standards (as someone who's just sold his xbox 360 after enjoying next-gen games for months).
Still, if you're a new mac owner and/or never played those games, you owe it to yourself to see them on a large cinema display.
I'm not sure whether Halo will run at a fast framerate in very high resolution on, say, a single processor G5, but it will run well especially if you have a decent video card (Radeon 9800 or better). When I owned a dual 1.8 G5 with a Radeon 9800se, I was able to enjoy smooth single and multiplayer mayhem on my 23" Apple display with most of the eye candy set to medium or higher.
Return to Castle Wolfenstein will always be a classic. Not only does it feature good graphics, but it runs silky smooth on most G4 machines. I played it mostly back when I had an 800mhz iMac G4 (white dome) with 32MB of vram. It ran acceptably well at 1024x768, the full resolution of my 15" screen. The one time I played it on the dual G5, even when it had the stock Nvidia FX5200, performance was so smooth that it made my Mac look like a gaming machine.
Both games have great online multiplayer - legendary in their own ways - and I've been told that one can still find several open servers on which to play almost around the clock - of course at no additional charge.
I safeguarded the multiplayer authentication code, so I personally guarantee that anyone who buys them from me will not encounter any server connection difficulty of the type related to more than one player using the same code at the same time. That is, unless you fail to safeguard them yourself.
Rounding out the package is Diskwarrior, the indispensible hard drive utility that every Mac user should have, but especially those whose harddrives get heavily trafficked. That includes those who play a lot of online multiplayer games such as first person shooters, since many servers require you assent to letting them upload you modified maps or other data which arrives on your hard drive in the form of data packets. Also FPS games often create large temporary hard drive partitions utilized as texture caches to swap large chunks of visual data between the hard drive and physical ram (noobs: "memory" lol). This technique lets the game designers cram a larger amount of visual data into any particular area resulting in more surface texture variety as you bolt from one area to another and see one building or other object look different than the last three you just saw. The problem with the above is that the games don't always "clean up" after themselves and often exhibit crass etiquette such as not flushing or leaving the seat up.
Seriously though, Disk Warrior has recued me several times. I'm only getting rid of it now because I'll be selling my last mac soon and don't plan to be computing at all for the next few years (if I can help it).
Note the receipts for Halo and Disk Warrior in the photos below. The one for the latter in particular will entitle you to reduced rate future upgrades. The version I'm selling is the latest available to purchase (3.02) and this is all you need to enjoy Disk Warrior's benefits in Jaguar or Panther. Using it with Tiger will require that you apply simple 3.03 updater which is freely available on the Alsoft website. Here's the link for the publisher's website, followed by the Diskwarrior product page which also contains snippets of all the rave reviews.
http://alsoft.com/
http://alsoft.com/DiskWarrior/index.html
Now some photos of my stuff:
http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e61/hedphlegm/IMG_0288.jpg
http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e61/hedphlegm/IMG_0277.jpg
http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e61/hedphlegm/IMG_0276.jpg
http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e61/hedphlegm/IMG_0272.jpg
http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e61/hedphlegm/IMG_0269.jpg
I paid a total of about $195 (including tax) for all three of the above (Diskwarrior was $99.99). Let's say for the sake of argument that each of the titles can be found new and sealed online for somewhere between 30-40 percent less than what I paid (the Applestore still sells Diskwarrior for $100, but of course you can find it for less than that)
That would bring the new total to around $120 + shipping.
I'll sell it as a package for $100 including shipping and free paypal.
So it's as if you'd be getting Diskwarrior for $50, Halo for $30, and RTCW for $20 without even having to roll your wheelchair out the door.
Let me know what you think.
Ted
1) Disk Warrior (version 3.02 - free upgrade available for use in Tiger)
2) Return To Castle Wolfenstein
3) Halo
I purchased all three programs from the Apple Store. All include original disk, manual, box, and original receipts for Disk Warrior and Halo (see photo).
Halo and Return to Castle Wolfenstein both include the serial number required for online multiplayer play. Allthough I used those numbers to play online several years ago, I honestly can't remember the last time I even *thought* about playing either one of those two games online or offline. They're excellent games, two of the best available for the Mac, but they're past their prime by my standards (as someone who's just sold his xbox 360 after enjoying next-gen games for months).
Still, if you're a new mac owner and/or never played those games, you owe it to yourself to see them on a large cinema display.
I'm not sure whether Halo will run at a fast framerate in very high resolution on, say, a single processor G5, but it will run well especially if you have a decent video card (Radeon 9800 or better). When I owned a dual 1.8 G5 with a Radeon 9800se, I was able to enjoy smooth single and multiplayer mayhem on my 23" Apple display with most of the eye candy set to medium or higher.
Return to Castle Wolfenstein will always be a classic. Not only does it feature good graphics, but it runs silky smooth on most G4 machines. I played it mostly back when I had an 800mhz iMac G4 (white dome) with 32MB of vram. It ran acceptably well at 1024x768, the full resolution of my 15" screen. The one time I played it on the dual G5, even when it had the stock Nvidia FX5200, performance was so smooth that it made my Mac look like a gaming machine.
Both games have great online multiplayer - legendary in their own ways - and I've been told that one can still find several open servers on which to play almost around the clock - of course at no additional charge.
I safeguarded the multiplayer authentication code, so I personally guarantee that anyone who buys them from me will not encounter any server connection difficulty of the type related to more than one player using the same code at the same time. That is, unless you fail to safeguard them yourself.
Rounding out the package is Diskwarrior, the indispensible hard drive utility that every Mac user should have, but especially those whose harddrives get heavily trafficked. That includes those who play a lot of online multiplayer games such as first person shooters, since many servers require you assent to letting them upload you modified maps or other data which arrives on your hard drive in the form of data packets. Also FPS games often create large temporary hard drive partitions utilized as texture caches to swap large chunks of visual data between the hard drive and physical ram (noobs: "memory" lol). This technique lets the game designers cram a larger amount of visual data into any particular area resulting in more surface texture variety as you bolt from one area to another and see one building or other object look different than the last three you just saw. The problem with the above is that the games don't always "clean up" after themselves and often exhibit crass etiquette such as not flushing or leaving the seat up.
Seriously though, Disk Warrior has recued me several times. I'm only getting rid of it now because I'll be selling my last mac soon and don't plan to be computing at all for the next few years (if I can help it).
Note the receipts for Halo and Disk Warrior in the photos below. The one for the latter in particular will entitle you to reduced rate future upgrades. The version I'm selling is the latest available to purchase (3.02) and this is all you need to enjoy Disk Warrior's benefits in Jaguar or Panther. Using it with Tiger will require that you apply simple 3.03 updater which is freely available on the Alsoft website. Here's the link for the publisher's website, followed by the Diskwarrior product page which also contains snippets of all the rave reviews.
http://alsoft.com/
http://alsoft.com/DiskWarrior/index.html
Now some photos of my stuff:
http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e61/hedphlegm/IMG_0288.jpg
http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e61/hedphlegm/IMG_0277.jpg
http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e61/hedphlegm/IMG_0276.jpg
http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e61/hedphlegm/IMG_0272.jpg
http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e61/hedphlegm/IMG_0269.jpg
I paid a total of about $195 (including tax) for all three of the above (Diskwarrior was $99.99). Let's say for the sake of argument that each of the titles can be found new and sealed online for somewhere between 30-40 percent less than what I paid (the Applestore still sells Diskwarrior for $100, but of course you can find it for less than that)
That would bring the new total to around $120 + shipping.
I'll sell it as a package for $100 including shipping and free paypal.
So it's as if you'd be getting Diskwarrior for $50, Halo for $30, and RTCW for $20 without even having to roll your wheelchair out the door.
Let me know what you think.
Ted
