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Luckily, we had SPEs on PS3 and the GPU on the 360 to do heavy computation. 1. (microprocessor).

I remember a while back (in the G3G4 era), there were a lot of fun and creative games that were either Mac-only or MacWindows.

I grew up on Mac gaming, being a cult-of-Mac evangelist, and most of the greats were cross-ported from PC (Blizzard, Maxis, id Software), or it had many gems of its own (Marathon, Bungie, Ambrosia).

Before that, we didnt have as many games and the scene wasnt as vibrant as it was on the PC, but we had high-quality stuff, often Mac-exclusive.

When the Half-Life port was killed, it felt like we were definitively left behind.

Around this time, classic Mac game development houses like Ambrosia, Bungie, and Graphic Simulations folded, jumped ship, or just went into long decline.

The Mac has seen a lot more games in recent years, and a big part of that is Valves presence on the platform with Steam and, after all these years, Half-Life.

One third of the computers were macs, and two thirds were PCs.

The macs were for Marathon, and the PCs were for people doing homework.

Except for the month when all of the computers were for watching The Spirit of Christmas over and over.

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While Im dating myself, let me add that we could print for free on the dot matrix printer, but the laser charged against our print quotas.

Was commissioned by an advertising executive as a holiday gift to industry pals, distributed on video tape.

Friend of mine transcoded it to QuickTime MOV format -- a technical challenge at the time -- and once digital, it spread like wildfire.

Bungie getting bought out by MS and Halo becoming a PC game was a cruel stab in the back.

Looking back, I think a big part of it was that I didnt want to shell out for yet another box (that only played games) and I sucked at using a gamepad for first person shooters.

Also, slightly more factual: I actually devoted way too much time playing (what was dubbed) Halo PC and spent a lot of time in the community.

If any of you played at a semi-frequent level, Id love to connect.

I know theres one of us ( ) who played at a very competitive high-level who now runs an thriving eCommerce startup.

I highly recommend Infocoms Trinity, Lurking Horror, most SSI titles, etc.

There were X-Box developers with Macbooks, or so Ive heard from someone I knew who worked for Lionhead and Microsoft.

The Xbox 360 was PPC though (some of the early 360 demos were actually running on Powermac G5s - ).

Every 7th generation console had a PPC CPU but only Wii had one similar to Macs 1.

X360 and PS3 had PPE cores from Cell, which had a PPC ISA but not the performance of the real PPC that were used in Macs.

E.g. there was no OOE and the memory coherency was enforced by just locking a cache line after a write so if you tried to read something from an address you just wrote youd stall for 50 clocks, the famous load hit store stall.

Luckily, we had SPEs on PS3 and the GPU on the 360 to do heavy computation.

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