The Brad Hole

Have you ever wanted to own a piece of Mac gaming history? Well, now you can! ;-)

This is my trusty G4 dual 800 MHz PowerMac. When I had this Mac, I did almost all of my game porting work for Westlake and Aspyr on it. It was my "main axe" for many years, and I have grown quite attached to it. With Beth back in school, our money is a little tight through the holidays, so I figure it's time to let it go to a better home.

I used this Mac for MacMAME development, most (all?) of the Star Wars ports I did for Aspyr, EverQuest and Halo development and probably several other games. It was definitely my main Mac for the longest time, and I'm getting a little nostalgic just thinking about letting it go. But life goes on.

I've upgraded this Mac with an M-Audio Revolution 7.1 surround sound card, a GeForce 4Ti AGP card and a Radeon PCI card. It's also got an ATA/100 PCI card, so you can add more hard drives to it. I had a 3rd drive in it for the longest time, and just now removed it for this auction. That said, one of the 2 remaining drives (the 30GB one) appears to be going bad. Not a huge deal, since it's now erased and contains nothing. I've mainly included it because I can't be bothered to remove it from the case. :-)

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Since I started working for Westlake back in 1999, I've subscribed to the magazine "Computer Gaming World", or CGW for short. It's been a good magazine, lots of useful articles and big pretty pictures of upcoming titles. I've preferred it to the web for my PC game news simply because I don't care and can't be bothered to bumble my way through a half-dozen PC websites that generally contain lots of news about 3rd party add-ons for existing games mixed in with the "real" game news.

Today, I received in the mail the first issue of the awkwardly-named "Games for Windows". Apparently CGW is no more and they've become an "official Microsoft" magazine, albeit with claims of independence from Microsoft.

From a pragmatic standpoint, it's clear that CGW was, essentially, all about Windows games and had been for years. From a gut standpoint though, this rubs me the wrong way. Whenever I see an "official" game magazine for any platform, I just think corporate mouthpiece. It's amplified in this case simply because I detest Microsoft as a company. It's also a clear signal that even though CGW had little to no Mac or Linux coverage before, now they are *definitely* not going to have any.

So, goodbye CGW. Good riddance, "Games for Windows". Hello, PC Gamer. ;-)

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