New Mac Game: SuperTuxKart

I’ve added the free, open-source game SuperTuxKart to the Macs at the League.

Mac Game Updates

I just pushed out a major update for our League Macs. This changes the way some of the games are loaded, removes some games, and adds Unreal Tournament 2004. I've changed the Mac Game List to reflect these changes. I'll try to add back the games that were removed as I can get them to work with our new methodology.

The error causing StarCraft to stop working has been fixed. StarCraft, WarCraft III, and WarCraft III: The Frozen Throne now use shadow disk images. Basically, this means that when you're playing, you can make any change you want—download a patch if a new one comes out, create a new single-player user profile, etc.—and those changes will be saved to your desktop as a .shadow file; for instance, when you launch StarCraft, it creates the file StarCraft.shadow on your desktop.

To save these files, simply copy them into your IFS space before you log out and then copy them back to the desktop when you log in. If the file exists when you launch the game, then it'll use your saved changes. Enjoy!

Wrath of the Lich King on Macs

I’ve just pushed out an update to World of Warcraft on the Macs that will install Wrath of the Lich King.  The Macs will receive this update the next time they log out or overnight, whichever occurs first.  I haven’t been able to test this update, as I don’t have a WotLK account, so leave a comment if it doesn’t work and I’ll roll back the update and try this again.

Mac Update

We’ve updated World of Warcraft on the Macs to client version 3.0.2.

New Mac Game: AssaultCube

I’ve added the free, open-source game AssaultCube 0.9.3 to our Macs in the League.

Mac Game Update

We've updated FreeCiv to version 2.1.6.

Mac Game Updates

We’ve updated Second Life to version 1.20 and World of Warcraft to version 2.4.3 on the Macs.

New Mac Game: UFO: Alien Invasion

I’ve added the free, open-source game UFO: Alien Invasion to the Macs at the League.

New Mac Game: Freeciv

I’ve added the free, open-source Civilization clone Freeciv to the Macs in the League.

Mac Update

I've updated World of Warcraft to the latest version on the Macs. The PC Team is looking into World of Warcraft and the Dungeons & Dragons Online problems.

WoW Issues

We are aware with the WoW issues and are working on a solution. Thanks for all of your comments; I'll update this when we fix it.

WoW Update

World of Warcraft has been updated to version 2.3.3 on the Macs.  As far as the PCs are concerned, we've updated it in the latest image but the update did not appear to be entirely successful.  You should be able to update it yourself.  Since the PC team is so busy these days, we've enabled users to update WoW, so it will always be up-to-date.  I have plans to do this for the Macs as well to avoid the "failed to apply patch" errors.  Starting WoW from the launcher instead of running the executable directly should produce a smoother update process.

We realize that WoW is the most-played game in the lab, so we'd rather allow you to update it yourself rather than it being unplayable until we can do an update.

Mac Update

Second Life is now at version 1.19.0.5.

PC Gaming Update

Apologies for the long period between updates; we've had a changing of the guard of sorts for the PC side of things. The following changes are being made to the lab this week (2/15):

- Updated clients for World of Warcraft, Dungeons & Dragons Online, and Rappelz.
- Updated and tweaked Guild Wars so that all downloadable data is pre-cached on the machine (this fix should mean minimal loading times for all GW versions, including Factions, Nightfall, and Eye of the North.)
- Added new games: Puzzle Pirates & Lord of the Rings Online are now available for play.

The Cyber Lounge will be effectively closed Thursday at 4:00 PM to reload stations with the new loadset; the site should be open and available for use again Friday morning.

Mac Update

World of Warcraft on the Macs is now at version 2.3.2.