Steam for Mac was released here in the last couple of weeks. So, I dusted off my old PC account, logged in, and grabbed a free copy of Portal. I’d never played more than the demo because, well… I was cheap at the time. It also didn’t run well on my rig at the time.
Since then I’ve been exploring the growing number of dual-platform titles. most of which have demos which are not yet dual-platform. One of the very addicting (and insanely easy to grasp) titles has been a little cartoony aerial shooter called Altitude.1 It’s available outside of steam as well.
The system requirements are fairly lightweight:
OS: Windows, Mac OSX, Linux
Processor: 1.0 GHz
Memory: 256 MB
Graphics: 64 MB VRAM
Hard Drive: 300 MB of free space
If you already own it, you can find me under the handle ‘bluevulpine’.
I’ve a PC to repair today (Sunday) and then while windows is reloading I hope to be able to sit down and have an hour or two to actually write.
This game may still exist on Steam but the user profiles are moved or gone, and I haven’t played in years. It’s kind of fun and there’s a free demo on their site. Give it a shot if you’re bored. I managed to lose a couple hours in this thing tonight when I sat down intending to play for half an hour and go to bed. >< If you decide to buy it, hit the link above so I get a little referral credit. Just unlocks some plane skin options in game for me, is all. $10 on the site, but for this weekend it’s $5 on steam. (Click the link first anyway, then go purchase it in steam, the bonus checks via IP address) ↩︎