Make a news item on IMG?

Peter · Post by **Peter** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 4:45 pm

I know you are a little strapped for cash Diedel for buying a Mac. And I am extremely sorry as I have not donated as I myself am strapped for cash.

But I was thinking, maybe email Inside Mac Games to see if they could make a news item about D2X-XL and how you need money to buy a Mac and put a call out for people to donate. Not everyone has to be strapped for cash.
http://www.insidemacgames.com/

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 9:11 am

I don't think I am gonna e-mail IMG about this. I feel somewhat stupid to say \"please make a news message about this project to get me money\".

I think I don't will get much more money from the D2 community for this project anyway. Given the several thousand downloads the OS X versions had, this is pretty sad. Either the D2 OS X fans don't care about networking and multiplayer, or they fail to see that probably the only to get it to run is to get me a Mac.

Peter · Post by **Peter** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 2:06 pm

Diedel wrote:I don't think I am gonna e-mail IMG about this. I feel somewhat stupid to say "please make a news message about this project to get me money".

Yeah, true. That would seem kind of stupid.

But again, I am sorry. I will donate as soon as I get some more money! You are tad bit less than half way to getting a Mac mini which is $599.00 USD.

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 5:24 pm

Well ... I wrote something to the IMG people.

The cheapest (new) Mac Mini in Germany costs 639 Euros (w/o keyboard, mouse or monitor), and it has some integrated Intel gfx I of which I don't know whether it has acceptable OpenGL support and can run D2X-XL.

And the smallest iMac (ATI X1600 gfx) costs 1349 Euros.

Peter · Post by **Peter** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 5:36 pm

Hehe.

Glenda Adams, who works for Aspyr (Mac porting and publishing company), states the integrated chip's basic functionality here.

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 5:43 pm

Thanks for the link. Gfx chip sucks - I thought so.

I just checked my Paypal account. I currently have received 274 Euros (250 USD + 72 EUR).

One Euro costs around 1,20 USD, which sucks. This makes a Mac in Germany cost the equivalent of 750 USD. Grrrr.

KoolBear · Post by **KoolBear** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 8:44 pm

Well that is a start Diedel, I apprecaite your efforts and have sent my donation.

Thank for your efforts and taking the time to deal with all of us!

YiD,

KB

Peter · Post by **Peter** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 11:42 am

Here are some more links about the integrated graphics chip and the Mac mini in general for you Diedel.
http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/gameroo ... /index.php
and
http://www.macworld.com/2006/03/firstlo ... /index.php

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