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Mac & Windows Games with Low Requirements
Endaro
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This is one of those threads that straddles the G&T/H&A line, but I figured my specificity and the lack of possible discussion would put it here. Here's the situation:
My GF is leaving town soon and will be gone till the end of the year. While she is gone, we would like to continue to play games together. Buying a second wii/360 is a bit ridiculous for only a few months, so we'd prefer to play together on our preexisting computers. Unfortunately, she only owns a PowerBook G4, and I am on a fancy Windows PC. I was wondering if anyone had any good suggestions for cross platform play(as in between Mac and Windows obviously) with relatively low system requirements.
The first games to spring to mind are Blizzard titles, which were released on both Mac and Windows but also have low enough requirements to run on her laptop. Beyond that, and cheap multiplayer flash games, I am at a loss. Steam was recently released for Mac, and games like TF2 with it, but her Powerbook G4 (10.4.11 OS, 1.67 GHz processor, 512 MB SDRAM etc etc) cannot run steam, and I'm also under the impression it is too old/weak to run window's games directly through bootcamp and such.
Any suggestions?
tl;dr: games on both windows and mac that can still be played on a PowerBook G4 10.4.11?
My GF is leaving town soon and will be gone till the end of the year. While she is gone, we would like to continue to play games together. Buying a second wii/360 is a bit ridiculous for only a few months, so we'd prefer to play together on our preexisting computers. Unfortunately, she only owns a PowerBook G4, and I am on a fancy Windows PC. I was wondering if anyone had any good suggestions for cross platform play(as in between Mac and Windows obviously) with relatively low system requirements.
The first games to spring to mind are Blizzard titles, which were released on both Mac and Windows but also have low enough requirements to run on her laptop. Beyond that, and cheap multiplayer flash games, I am at a loss. Steam was recently released for Mac, and games like TF2 with it, but her Powerbook G4 (10.4.11 OS, 1.67 GHz processor, 512 MB SDRAM etc etc) cannot run steam, and I'm also under the impression it is too old/weak to run window's games directly through bootcamp and such.
Any suggestions?
tl;dr: games on both windows and mac that can still be played on a PowerBook G4 10.4.11?
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(She can't run Steam or dual-boot Windows because that depends on running an Intel processor, which the G4 is not.)
Whether you'll be able to find copies of it is another question.
Steam | Live
The last release for the Mac was free and is for PPC computers. All you need is a Windows XP disc, then she can install that, divert most of the memory to the Windows side, and you guys have access to a lot more games, albeit they will be very old games and rely on software rendering most likely.
This seems like the best option, really. With computer specs like that, I can't imagine she'd be able to run too many of the newer games, anyway.
Can a g4 run QuakeLive?