Monthly Archives: May 2010

Welcome to the future

Posted on May 12, 2010 by James Clayton

In the very first PC magazine I bought in 1993 there was a review of Syndicate. It featured a screenshot very much like the one above, with the caption “In the future it’s always 2am and raining.” Welcome to the … Continue reading →

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Steam Mac Beta Framerate Comparison

Posted on May 8, 2010 by James Clayton

As promised, I re-downloaded the Windows versions of Team Fortress 2 and Portal and ran some framerate comparisons. In Portal running on Vista under Boot Camp, I get a fairly steady mid 20s to low 30s FPS at 1680×1050, using … Continue reading →

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Lets Play: Steam client for Mac OS X

Posted on May 5, 2010 by James Clayton

Update 4:24am: The ‘not much to say’ thing is no longer true. See the last couple of paragraphs for details of the first third-party titles coming to Steam for the Mac My invitation to the Steam for Mac beta came … Continue reading →

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It’s a little untidy round here

Posted on May 2, 2010 by James Clayton

Forced into exile by the closure of Blogger’s FTP service, I’ve switched this site over to running on WordPress. It’s something I’d meant to do for years, but the shove from Google has finally given me a reason. It also … Continue reading →

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