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Quote: Original post by Srekel
The page is up!!

http://www.gamedev.net/community/contest/4e6/default.asp


No elements yet though. :(

At least now we have a new place to obsessively refresh waiting for the "?" to go away. Maybe they'll reveal one per day? *grin*

It says this on the first page:

Elements Announced: September 27, 2007, at 1100 hours EST

Quote: Original post by Srekel

Quote: Original post by dmoonfire

Quote: Original post by Srekel
The page is up!!

http://www.gamedev.net/community/contest/4e6/default.asp


No elements yet though. :(

At least now we have a new place to obsessively refresh waiting for the "?" to go away. Maybe they'll reveal one per day? *grin*

It says this on the first page:

Elements Announced: September 27, 2007, at 1100 hours EST

Bah, completely missed that. Such teeny tiny font. Besides, I clicked the big link instead. :P Sadly, that means I won't finish my CuteGod project in time, but excited to see this about to be announced.

Yay finally, only a couple more days to wait!

It also says so right underneath the ? boxes on the Elements page...

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It also says so right underneath the ? boxes on the Elements page...

So, evidence points to my inability to read. :P Well, that should make the contest easy for me, I'll work on... Europe, Economics... wait, that isn't it.

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Quote: Original post by Srekel
The page is up!!

http://www.gamedev.net/community/contest/4e6/default.asp


No elements yet though. :(

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please, stop the insanity! I think my ears are permanently rick-rolled.. =/

In case anyone has missed it, here's a link to that darned Rick Rolled thingie.

I had hoped we might have a higher spec category this time around... what is the judging Mac anyway - a 3 year old iBook G4 has a Radeon 9500, so this is older? And I think the 9200 is without pixel shaders, no?

Must be some judges out there with slightly better Macs...

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I had hoped we might have a higher spec category this time around... what is the judging Mac anyway - a 3 year old iBook G4 has a Radeon 9500, so this is older? And I think the 9200 is without pixel shaders, no?

Must be some judges out there with slightly better Macs...

It's an original Mac Mini, and it does support GL_ARB_vertex_shader and GL_ARB_fragment_shader. If I can find some judges out there with better Macs then we'll look at it, but I'm hearing that 10.3.9 is a reasonable min spec OS to require, and so I'm guessing that the hardware runs not too far from it.

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Quote: Original post by swiftcoder
I had hoped we might have a higher spec category this time around... what is the judging Mac anyway - a 3 year old iBook G4 has a Radeon 9500, so this is older? And I think the 9200 is without pixel shaders, no?

Must be some judges out there with slightly better Macs...

It's an original Mac Mini, and it does support GL_ARB_vertex_shader and GL_ARB_fragment_shader. If I can find some judges out there with better Macs then we'll look at it, but I'm hearing that 10.3.9 is a reasonable min spec OS to require, and so I'm guessing that the hardware runs not too far from it.

10.3.9 tends to be on all pre-intel Macs, but it makes a really lousy minimum - considering that it cannot be installed on an Intel Mac, and 10.4 is nearly as common on PowerPC Macs.

As for the Mac mini, it was 2 generations behind the current Macs when it was released, and has never caught up - the latest ones use an Intel 950, so they basically don't run games. I don't feel it is really sensible to force games to run on a Mac that Apple explicitly stated was "not for gaming".

Edit: My G4 iBook from my last post, both pre-dates and is considerably better performing than any of the Mac minis - even the brand new Intel varieties.