- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Midway
It's awesome how the Marathon games (as well as Pathways into Darkness) still work on modern macintosh computers.
My other favorite classic mac games (Beyond Dark Castle and Mission Starlight) stopped working on new computers many years ago.
That's because the kernel for Macs isn't any different now. Any given game that tells you works on an NT machine will work on XP or 2000. The core OS was completely different from 98 to NT, 98 was DOS with a clown suit, NT was a multi-user, fully functional OS. Microsoft abandoned the single user crap, apparently, once they realized that nobody liked ME.
Fun Fact: Technically, DOS, 3.x, 9.x, and ME OSs couldn't multitask. They switched between tasks automatically fast enough for you not to notice. The last clause of that sentence may or may not be true, though.
[Edited on 12/5/2004 12:52:34 AM]