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Quoted from dotfloat™

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You’re willing to be that a unfinished windows emulator is better than a handcrafted native port?

I raged at you calling wine a “windows emulator”

Somebody needs to learn when I’m trolling about relative Mac performance.

Quoted from Cloud

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Wait wait, surely they’re not running the game in direct X on the mac? It’s openGL is it not? Isn’t that the point he was trying to make?

That’s correct (at least, I would assume they will use OpenGL on nix, not actually heard about it), but OpenGL is only half of the story.

Quoted from dotfloat™

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You’re willing to be that a unfinished windows emulator is better than a handcrafted native port? (By valve, I might add)

I like the part where you imply that “valve” doing the port will mean that nothing will go wrong.

anyway i wouldnt worry. the linux nerds are saying it will be out by the end of the summer. a quick glance at my “valve-time-translator” shows that a more accurate estimate would be sometime mid july

2012

TC are you that opposed to spending a few day’s wages on an OEM copy of windows?