It's official: Cosmic Osmo is BACK!!!

[FerazelX]

His new game "Cosmic Osmo's Hex Isle" looks quite good, but they totally screwed Osmo himself over!

New Osmo:

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y128/MithosYggdrasil/OsmoNew.jpg

Original Osmo:

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y128/MithosYggdrasil/OsmoIcon.png

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y128/MithosYggdrasil/ClassicOsmo.jpg

 

[returningmacuser]

I don't really know about this. I would have liked it better if the new Osmo were done in the classic point-and click style. And what's with the Intel requirement? Many of us mac users still have PPC macs. >

 

[madmax_2069]

unfortunately, that is how all new games are going to be done. also you can say its another way for Apple to force you to buy a new intel Mac.

 

[QuadSix50]

unfortunately, that is how all new games are going to be done. also you can say its another way for Apple to force you to buy a new intel Mac.

Gotta love planned obsolescence... :-/

 

[The Macster]

unfortunately, that is how all new games are going to be done. also you can say its another way for Apple to force you to buy a new intel Mac.

Presumably any new Mac software (as opposed to new versions of existing products) will now be Intel only, as developers won't bother making a new product from scratch for an effectively obsolete platform that only has a few years of support left anyway. Like how the new Adobe software that wasn't available for Mac before CS3 is Intel-only.

 

[Scott Baret]

Us oldtimers can relate this to the 680x0-PPC transition in the mid-1990s. The same rule applied, with the only exception being in the educational software market (they probably did this so that those who had fleets of LC 5xx machines could still use them).

Does anyone know if the new Office coming out is Intel-only? Microsoft has a long history of releasing software that only works on current machines--Office 95 required Windows 95 and when they finally upgraded the wretched Word 6/Office 4.2 they came out with the PPC-only Office 98 even though 680x0-based PowerBook 190s and Performa 630s were on the market two years prior to that.

On the subject of Cosmic Osmo--I saw Spelunx is now on Gametap, so if you have the hardware and the subscription, you can check it out! It looks to be the colour version, which has always been rare. Now there's no more need to check eBay every two hours to see if some random copy of Spelunx makes its way on--it rarely if ever does!

 

[bluekatt]

office 2008 wil be released in mid january 2008

 

[The Macster]

Mac Office 2008 is a Universal app - as for Office 98, Apple killed the 68ks around the same time with OS 8.5 so I guess MS just took the lead from that. Office 95 required Windows 95 as it was 32-bit - it would have been silly for them to bring out another 16-bit version when 32-bit was clearly the future.

 

[Scott Baret]

Well, this breaks Microsoft's streak...

Didn't Works 2.0 require a Plus to run? It came out in 1988 if I recall, meaning people who bought their 512Ke in September 1987 (it was discontinued that month) couldn't use anything new?

There came to be a term for that...IIvxed. I've been IIvxed three times, with a new model coming out less than a month after I bought my machine (LC in 1992, Clamshell iBook in 2000, and the white iBook in 2005). The last case was ONE WEEK after I got it...