Steam for Mac Released

The first version of Steam for Mac just launched, and Valve's giving Portal away for free (for Mac and PC). Currently Portal is the only working Source game for Macs, but a bunch of other devs (mostly casual/indy devs who's games were already out for Macs through different services) have released their games (Something like 64 mac compatible games out of 500+).

http://store.steampowered.com/

http://store.steampowered.com/freeportal/

Awesome for all those poor gamers who are stuck only using a mac.

Intel.

Paul is going to rage.

WarHampster schrieb:

>>poor

>>gamers who are only using a mac.

Wut

Not poor in the financial sense

My friend got a mac, and since i told him steam was comming out for them he had been counting down the days lol.
he also asked me "how do you find out about these things?"

mind you he currently don't have internets at his place, but he takes his mac to his broadcasting school.

Rickenbacker schrieb:

Intel.

Paul is going to rage.

You don't have one either, so we're stuck in the same boat.

But yes, you caught me.

ffffffffffffffffffff

Paul schrieb:

You don't have one either, so we're stuck in the same boat.

I have a PC though lolololololo.

im not gonna waste anymore of my HD space......only got 14GB left....ill try and get around buying a new computer after summer though...

I have that problem on my mac, only around 3 gigs on the internal drive.

3GB, hahaha............. i have 1GB

2.6 gigs.

Shit I need to delete some stuff.

Holy shit.

Valve doesn't know shit about the Mac platform, the client is so fucked it's like they pulled it out of the rear of a dead cow.

i guess itll be a learning thing for valve then.

Lol, what's wrong with it?

EDIT -

The programming for the client is so primitive that they couldn't even be arsed to make their own APIs for the damn thing, instead they use directory assistance and references which makes it a terrible platform. Don't spring "it's just a beta" on me, literally the LEAST thing they could have done was make it run properly by adding in internal references between functions. They have half of this shit tossed into a sack and shaken around expecting it to somehow work right.

Don't even get me started on networking problems, it takes me less than 2 minutes to make my own damn coca script that works perfectly referencing ftp directories. Yet Valve has the sheer stupidity to remove file checks between servers.

What? How do you know how it works internally?

Directory assistance? I'm a programmer and I have no idea what you're talking about

WarHampster schrieb:

What? How do you know how it works internally?

Some things are even directly observable from standard operation. The other things like the lack of working APIs, can be seen by the massive library dump the client shits out when you initialize it for the first time.

WarHampster schrieb:

Directory assistance? I'm a programmer and I have no idea what you're talking about

Directory assistance is an incredibly primitive function where, intead of incorperating different parts of the program into one compiled .app, the main application literally references other applications and large amounts of data from outisde of the application. This process slows it down a ton, and makes a lot of bugs.