Xconq and Games
I've never been a big gamer. I wrote a few games that my friends liked, but as for myself, I can't remember a game that held my attention to the point that I was really good at it, or six months passed - with the possible exception of my teens when I'd go to the arcade with my friends. But I have to admit that ever since I played Empire or Xconq or FreeCiv I've been hooked. Not really sure why that is, but it probably has to do with my favorite board game - Risk. So I've been playing Xconq for a long while and I have to admit that the versions I've played in the last year are by far the best I've seen - even in the commercial offerings.
So the latest version available on the Xconq web site runs on both X11 and Mac OS Classic - which, on my iBook, runs very nicely. Sure, it's a toss-up which would run better - X11 or Classic as each has to run in a new environment, but I like the look of the Classic version better so I play it.
I will admit that it'd be nicer to have the multiple screens on my iBook that I have on my Linux boxes, but maybe I'll fix that with a new 17-inch PowerBook. I've been lucky enough to have a windfall that's exactly what the new PowerBook will cost - when it ships. It's about the most perfect computer for what I do and need, and with that 17-inch screen I'd be able to play a very nice, large, Xconq game :).
One of the things that I'm really looking forward to is the Carbon-ization of Xconq so that it wouldn't need the Classic run-time environment on Mac OS X and I know that they're working on it - I just have no idea how close they are to getting it done. I'm guessing that there's a ton of work to do, but again, I don't know how close they are. I do know that one of the main maintainers of Xconq is an employee of Apple, so it's likely he knows what to do as well as anyone, and he is working on it. So I'll wait... if a bit impatiently.