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May 20 2013  

The Weekly Dose

20 May 2013

Hi all, Skylarzz here. At the moment the front page is pretty dead, so in hope to get it going again, the weekly dose was made. I recently came up with the idea from browsing the forums and hence here it is, so things will be different then previous Articles, hopefully you all enjoy it. I'd love to here what you guys think about the first article in the line of many more (hopefully). Anyways, I'll stop talking about this now and get straight into it. Enjoy!

So recently the gaming side of macs has sprung up again, with heaps of new games coming out this month new ports are sure to follow. Doh123’s wineskin has stepped up a notch and has been noticed more in the gaming community, especially the OS X side of games. There's some interesting updates coming your way so keep an eye out and read in on the weekly news below.

Read on for more info

Apr 22 2012  

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat

This series is loosely based on a movie and set of novels from the late 70's. The story has become wildly popular world wide due to the this rendition of the story line, the video games. For those that have played the series know what the draw of the game really is all about. The game is a first person RPG set in the nuclear aftermath of atomic proportions. Without getting into too much detail I can assure you that the game has gained a reputation for a reason. The games have an authentic feel to them not found in any other game I've come across. The haunting environment and terrifying creatures lend the living breathing atmosphere that makes up the Zone and it's surrounding areas. Tread carefully as you complete main missions and hundred of side jobs throughout the entire series

These games are not new to the Mac platform, in fact it was originally ported about three years ago. The software development over the last three years has increased exponentially and better support for games has been implemented into wine.

One of the biggest draws of these games is the physical environment, and open ended world…The windows version has enjoyed the full use of all four lighting schemes, the low static lighting, and the three top tier dynamic lighting schemes. Unfortunately Wine lacked the ability to make the dynamic lighting schemes work….UNTIL NOW

FULL DYNAMIC LIGHTING in the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series is now implemented. I have only updated the Clear Sky wrapper for now but the other two will be updated very soon…This post will be edited to include the other two in due time.

If you would like to implement this into your currently installed games you can visit the Wine HQ App DB and search for the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game you are playing. You will be required to know how to edit the registry file located in the resources folder of the wrapper.

But for now here is:

Apr 21 2013  A look back at one of our Favourite Game companies:

Disney shuts down internal game development at LucasArts gamers of yesteryear all cry on April 3rd 2013. Any console gamer post Dreamcast or Mac user post Mac OS Classic - ask who....?

Read on to find out more.

Dec 22 2012  If you can read this, we survived the "End of the World" yesterday.