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Title: Star Wars fans rejoice! X-Wing, TIE Fighter games return to Mac Post by: HCK on May 07, 2015, 03:00:22 pm Star Wars fans rejoice! X-Wing, TIE Fighter games return to Mac
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><a href='http://www.imore.com/hey-star-wars-fans-x-wing-tie-fighter-games-return-mac' title="Star Wars fans rejoice! X-Wing, TIE Fighter games return to Mac"><img src='(http://www.imore.com/sites/imore.com/files/styles/large/public/field/image/2015/05/xwing.jpg)?itok=Qk1spVzs' />[/url]</p> <p class="intro">GOG.com has updated its recent releases of the vintage LucasArts X-Wing and TIE Fighter games with Mac support.</p> <p>GOG.com recently made a splash by re-releasing vintage Star Wars games previously published by LucasArts on their digital rights management (DRM)-free gaming service, but Mac users were disappointed to see that X-Wing and TIE Fighter weren't available for their platform (LucasArts did release Mac versions, back in the day). Now that's been fixed, and Linux users get some joy too.</p> <!--break--> <p>True story: Back in 1993 I was working in the tech support department of a Macintosh peripheral maker, spending my free time learning as much as I could about computers and this thing some of my friends were using called the Internet.</p> <p>I spent a lot of time trading messages on a bulletin board service called the Usenet, and in one of the gaming boards there began to develop quite a chatter about LucasArts' first Star Wars-branded game, a DOS space flight simulator and combat title called X-Wing. You got a chance to pilot the famed X-Wing from the Star Wars movies, but you could also pilot A-Wing, B-Wing and Y-Wing vessels too. It was tough. Tons of combat, but lots of strategy too: Adjusting power allocation is a big part of the game, making sure you have the right amount of power going to shields, engines and weapons.</p> <p>A few weeks later I saw the game in action, and fell in love. I had to have it. Only one problem: I was a Mac user, and X-Wing wasn't available for the Mac.</p> <p>I saved up that summer, and ended up building my own DOS-based PC to run the game. I played the hell out of it, every day. It was utterly magnificent. Eventually X-Wing would come out for the Mac too, but it's the only game I can ever remember that actually provoked me to buy a system to play it.</p> <p>So when GOG.com announced earlier this year they were releasing LucasArts titles, I wasn't entirely surprised that the Mac version wasn't available, but I'm happy to see them make amends now.</p> <p>You can download them for $8.99 for a limited time - 10 percent off the regular price of $9.99. GOG.com sells the games with no DRM, so you don't need to be online to activate or play them.</p> <p><strong>Star Wars: X-Wing Special Edition</strong></p> <ul><li>$8.99 - Download now (http://www.gog.com/game/star_wars_xwing_special_edition)</li> </ul><p><strong>Star Wars: TIE Fighter Special Edition</strong></p> <ul><li>$8.99 - Download now (http://www.gog.com/game/star_wars_tie_fighter_special_edition)</li> </ul><p>If you're looking for other Mac-compatible vintage Star Wars game fun, you can also download Rebel Assault I and II, packaged together.</p> <ul><li>$9.99 - Download now (http://www.gog.com/game/star_wars_rebel_assault_1_2)</li> </ul><p>Source: Brianna Wu (https://twitter.com/Spacekatgal/status/595936956992860160)</p> </div></div></div><img width='1' height='1' src='(http://tipb.com.feedsportal.com/c/33998/f/616881/s/46108224/sc/27/mf.gif)' border='0'/><br clear='all'/> <a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/228546501228/u/49/f/616881/c/33998/s/46108224/sc/27/rc/1/rc.htm" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/228546501228/u/49/f/616881/c/33998/s/46108224/sc/27/rc/1/rc.img" border="0"/>[/url] <a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/228546501228/u/49/f/616881/c/33998/s/46108224/sc/27/rc/2/rc.htm" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/228546501228/u/49/f/616881/c/33998/s/46108224/sc/27/rc/2/rc.img" border="0"/>[/url] <a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/228546501228/u/49/f/616881/c/33998/s/46108224/sc/27/rc/3/rc.htm" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/228546501228/u/49/f/616881/c/33998/s/46108224/sc/27/rc/3/rc.img" border="0"/>[/url] <img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/228546501228/u/49/f/616881/c/33998/s/46108224/sc/27/a2.img" border="0"/> (http://da.feedsportal.com/r/228546501228/u/49/f/616881/c/33998/s/46108224/sc/27/a2.htm)<img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/228546501228/u/49/f/616881/c/33998/s/46108224/sc/27/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheIphoneBlog/~4/iIBtLqimnxE" height="1" width="1" alt=""/> Source: Star Wars fans rejoice! X-Wing, TIE Fighter games return to Mac (http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheIphoneBlog/~3/iIBtLqimnxE/story01.htm) |