Jay Lucky

So I was messing around with the VMWare Fusion 2.0 beta today, hoping to be able to get Age of Conan to run.  Sadly, it didn’t work out that great.  I was able to, after some finagling of the copied directory files, get it to start up, ask for credentials, and then present me with the above character select screen.  It was actually fairly responsive in full screen mode (don’t even bother trying windowed - it works, but only barely and it takes forever to load in the assets), however once I selected a character and tried to load the game, it deteriorated from there.

The loading screen took forever to process, most likely due to poor disk performance.  Having the vmdk file on the same disk as the OS is a pretty bad idea, particularly on a 7200RPM drive.  I don’t typically have I/O problems on my Raptors, but because this is a hackintosh, it’s the best I had laying around.

After the loading screen finished, the art assets would slowly start loading in, almost to the point where it seemed playable.  That quickly faded as soon as I tried to move my character… the entire screen started to distort, textures were missing on a majority of everything, and I lost all of the UI completely.

Oh well.  It’s a huge stride forward for virtualization, I have to say.  Hopefully they can get all of the DirectX bugs worked out and make it fully functional.  If they can, this could be a great way for Mac users to be able to play games without using Bootcamp.

I just installed the 10.5.4 update to my hackintosh… I grabbed the .dmg from Apple and did it that way, rather than risk the Software Update install.  Had to replace the patched kernel and system.kext with my original 9.2.0 T0h one, but it booted just fine and runs perfectly.

Just testing out a gallery for my site… here’s a screenshot of my Hackintosh running 10.5.3 =)

In case you’re retarded or have been raised by wolves and don’t yet speak our Man Language, the iPhone comes out today. Some people are comparing this to the second coming of Jesus, which I seriously don’t get, but hey - it’s your deity to fuck with, go ahead.

If it truely does revolutionalize the cel phone industry, then maybe it deserves the comparision… but until it rises from the dead and walks on water, I’ll keep my comparisions a little more grounded. For one, is it better than this piece of shit Blackberry 8800 I have to carry around. For two, will my company let me “trade up” and get one… because when it comes down to it, who the fuck wants to carry around two phones all the time?

I really want one, but I think I’ll wait for the lines to die down. I really don’t get the whole hype machine about having to get one today. I mean - I do (I am a geek after all, I know all about early adoption), but holy shit do I have better things to do than sit in line for 10 hours and play WoW on my laptop. Seriously - it’s a phone people. Okay, it’s a phone/iPod/browser/etc but still… for $600 I shouldn’t have to wait in line.

If I worked for Apple, I suppose I wouldn’t have to…. God damn lucky SOBs.