In such cases, I suggest using a separate gaming USB keyboard and/or USB scroll mouse, or even a gamepad where possible. To date, I have no experience of Magic Trackpads for gaming, but the lack of 'clickwheel' scrolling may be problematic. Older Apple mice with only one button (plus ctrl-click for right) are not particularly effective for FPS using standard two-button plus scroll wheel controls (e.g., Bioshock), Mighty and/or Magic Mice are too expensive to hammer. The older white ones are OK for native Mac games, but still affected by the different special key assignments, especially the use of Command as the attention key, when using Windows. I can't recommend any current Apple aluminium/chiclet keyboard, built-in, wired, or Bluetooth, for any form of heavy gaming. YMMV.įinally, if you don't recognise any of the terminology, Google and Wikipedia are your friends. The early generations of games, including all the original Core Tomb Raiders, were written exclusively for 4:3 ratio monitors, and it may not be possible to avoid the 'stretch to fit' effect on some modern widescreen setups. There should be enough detail to cover most 2D/3D games of similar vintage and box specs: 2D is actually more stable over time than 3D. A Motorola 68K-based Macintosh can't run any games but its own whatever its OS version. The reverse options are generally not currently possible. The main options are running pre-OS9 games in OS9, OS9 games in OSX, PowerPC games on MacIntel, and Windows games on Macs. The price of Apple's survival and ultimate turnaround over the last decade has been ruthless cutting of backwards compatibility: old apps, and especially games, no longer 'just work' on new machines. This article is about getting PC/Mac versions of the Tomb Raider series to work on Macs they weren't designed for. Gaming appendix - which TRs run on which Macs? The result is the informative article below. Old Tomb Raiders on Newer Macs Last updated April 8 2014ĭave, a longtime MacRaiding acquaintance of Kerrie's from England has kindly agreed to share his memory of their joint experiences of getting older Tomb Raiders (and by extension other games) to work on newer Macs despite changes in hardware and operating systems over the years.

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