anyone know if play tribes is for mac?

Unsupported, I think. I honestly think you should get a PC irregardless.

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Speaking of camps, boot camp and install the OS the world is using. There is no Mac version. It took this long to get the PC version resurrected, there will be men on the moon again before you see a Mac version (if ever).

C'mon. It's a double negative. I'm positive it's not on the mac... so there.

http://wiki.winehq.org/MacOSX/Installing
http://www.kronenberg.org/darwine/

Wine can run on Mac. Tribes 1.11 works under it, so I presume 1.40 will. A previous thread or two mentioned the same thing, did you search?

Fairly certain it will indeed work with Wine.  Crash was about to start it up at PAX on his Mac but had to cut it short.

Go ahead and yell. I've yet to see a convincing argument in favour of the Mac as a gaming platform; it has a smaller gaming market share than obselete gaming consoles as well as some mobile phones. You might as well argue in favour of Tribes on java compatible Nokia handsets. The Mac does not qualify even as a has-been gaming platform, it's a never-was. Wakeup and smell the coffee.

I'd prefer to be polite but I used to work in the computer business and I'm sick of the Mac user mentality. PC customers were your everyman, you couldn't make a broad all encompassing statement about them, some were jerks and some weren't. Most Mac users on the other hand were some of the smuggest, self-statisfied,  hollier-than-thou, love the smell of their own farts, elitist jerks I have ever had to deal with. I can't tell you just how delicious my feeling of Schadenfreude is that people who bought a computer on the basis that it "looks so pretty" are whining about a lack of game support.

Yes I am a jerk too, but I bought a PC and can play all the games.

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I wasn't so much hating as saying that the argument of using something simply because most people do is a fairly poor one. Other systems have their merits and niches as well.

I use Linux. I've touched Mac OS I think three times ever, twice of which having been in the past month.
However, I will say that, in my limited exposure, I don't know why it would be so awful a platform for games. It uses the same input devices and basic operational methods as computers which run Windows, and what else do you need for the end-user? Sure, there's the matter of APIs like DirectX, but there are cross-platform options (and if Microsoft was so inclined, and even if with great effort, DirectX could be made compatible with Mac/Unix-likes if there wasn't monetary incentive otherwise), and to most players it doesn't make a difference, all that matters is how shiny and entertaining a game is. If the argument against it is just the matter of the size of the user base, well, I'll give you your victory there. But I'd also like to point out that I've never heard of anyone suggesting that any games be made solely for Mac. The ideas is cross-platform applications, no?

LMAO I was JUST about to use that stewie griffin quote until I saw semigod's post.

O and macs 4ever <3

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Oh noes! An angry Mac user is after me. It'll be a handbag twirling, squealing hissy fit! Watch you don't trip over in those Crocs *rainbow* boy.

Don't forget "these ones"

There are about a million arguments in favor of Mac as a gaming platform. The reason why it isn't is mostly because of history; Windows became the dominant gaming platform for home computers, Mac did not. There's a million reasons behind this, some technical, some business strategy, some mistakes by Apple. However, it is perfectly capable of being a gaming platform on a technological level. Let's not forget that before Halo Bungie was primarily a Mac developer. The first Marathon game, as far as I know, was never officially ported to Windows. Not only that but Blizzard still to this day supports Macs. They even updated games such as StarCraft which were originally written for OS9 to work natively with OSX and Intel macs. Another point to note is that the iPhone is gaining ground as a mobile gaming device. This may help game development on OSX by proxy, although personally I doubt it.

As for Tribes, it was never made for Mac, nor intended to be ported I believe. Now there's no reason to port an 11 year old game. Not that it couldn't be done since the Darkstar Engine did use some cross-platform APIs such as OpenGL, but it's a bit pointless more than a decade later. However, the descendants of the Darkstar Engine which GarageGames currently develops are cross-platform. The newest release, Torque 3D, works on both Windows and OSX. Legions, which was built on TGEA, is also cross-platform. So if you want an argument for Mac as a gaming platform, ask companies such as GG and Blizzard why they support it.