http://tleaves.com/2010/03/08/an-emulation-rumination/ Creativity x Technology Sat, 17 Mar 2012 05:09:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://tleaves.com/2010/03/08/an-emulation-rumination/comment-page-1/#comment-6498 pvg Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:12:16 +0000 http://tleaves.com/?p=2404#comment-6498 One particularly pleasant aspect of 1. is not only will they run but if you own a license for the PC version of a Valve game, it will carry over to your Mac. It's a classy touch similar to (but even better than) the transferable licenses offered for Valve games you already owned when you purchased Orange Box. I wanted to get into a pedantic nerdfight over whether without BSD there'd really be no Linux (even 'without Mach there'd be no OS X' is tenuous at best. Tenuous, I say!) but it's surprisingly hard to muster any enthusiasm for it given 1. and 2. and 3. Well played, Valve. One particularly pleasant aspect of 1. is not only will they run but if you own a license for the PC version of a Valve game, it will carry over to your Mac. It’s a classy touch similar to (but even better than) the transferable licenses offered for Valve games you already owned when you purchased Orange Box.
I wanted to get into a pedantic nerdfight over whether without BSD there’d really be no Linux (even ‘without Mach there’d be no OS X’ is tenuous at best. Tenuous, I say!) but it’s surprisingly hard to muster any enthusiasm for it given 1. and 2. and 3. Well played, Valve.

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