Filed under: Hardware, Windows, Macintosh, Adobe, Microsoft
Boot XP on Mac right now
When they said
"shortly" I didn't realize just how shortly. narf2006's $13,000 solution for booting Windows XP on your
Intel Mac is available right now, in the form of a 777kb zip file. In order to
accomplish the feat you'll need a PC on which you'll create a custom slipstreamed XP install disc. In case it's not
obvious, this is not for the faint of heart, but the distribution contains clear instructions in sensible English,
which is promising. As you might expect, the XP-on-Mac site is under significant load just now, so if you have
difficulties, head over to Engadget for a list of mirrors.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
