Mac

[Nachtmeister]

This is one end of the Spectrum. But that's still not a reason to sell the PC, unless we're talking about a, 'True Believer.'

Simple: She doesn't want her offspring to become intellectually dulled out by spending too much time with video-games. I've seen it happen to me when I was still a local offspring; quite a shocking process to close observers: First, the facial musculature loses definition; features become blunt and the whole skin acquires what I commonly call "monitor tan".
Then, the eyes become rather sluggish and the victim tends to ignore anything outside the central 25° field of view. Shoulders sagg and the neck gradually moves from atop and between the shoulders to a position close to the top of the vertical chest bone.
At this point, interruption of any kind, even for the purpose of offering tasty, *warm* lunch/dinner prompt severe rage, which is at first kept in check by the conscious desire to maintain status-quo appearances. This desire gradually becomes less conscious until the victim wonders why they are bothering with such pretenses; at this point parents begin to suspect that something might be out of the ordinary and consequently ask questions. This is perceived as a very invasive, hostile act by the victim, leading to (more or less, depending on the level of regular discipline exacted by the parents during initial education) open conflict and irrational or warped-out-of-perspective argumentation by the victim.
The parents find their suspicion profoundly confirmed and, depending on inventiveness, budget and the severity of the hostile reaction of the victim during above mentioned inquiry, take according action to prevent further deterioration of their offspring from what they consider a sane state of mind.
For instance by getting rid of the mindblowing evil machine.

Mac has paedagogically more valuable games like marble blast gold...
Or maybe she didn't like the Hellenes' theme...?
It could also have been the eastern charge sound.



On a more serious note, to adress the OP,
depending on the hardware of said MAC, you might try

- installing Linux on it and running WINE (windows emulation) which will however severely impede performance but might enable you to run EB - maybe assume roughly half the system's actual hardware stats to allow for the amount of capacity drained by the cumbersome process of translating every single action going on into windows-terms. It's like running an application within and application within an application within...
Only here it's BIOS, binary level, operating system, second operating system, application. Or something like that. The second operating system on top of the first is the only way to get the hardware to behave like different hardware.

- in case it is a Power Mac or even more modern - just install Windows on it... I hear the processors are no longer really different.

- abandoning video games, they make you lose reality and tend to worsen school marks. Severely. EB is the *only* exception - and even with EB it will get tricky after you have consumed the historical facts data and begin re-fashioning history to your own preferences. Claiming you led the Getai out of Roman oppression will get you some laughs from your mates and a reprimand of your teacher, reminding you that that happened in another part of the world during a much earlier period with a different people.

But if the less serious part of this post has some truth to it, the mom might object to any but the last option... And disguising a multi-OS setup seems like a tough task...

Either way, I wish you good fortune in your endeavours.

[desert]

Simple: She doesn't want her offspring to become intellectually dulled out by spending too much time with video-games. I've seen it happen to me when I was still a local offspring; quite a shocking process to close observers: First, the facial musculature loses definition; features become blunt and the whole skin acquires what I commonly call "monitor tan".
Then, the eyes become rather sluggish and the victim tends to ignore anything outside the central 25° field of view. Shoulders sagg and the neck gradually moves from atop and between the shoulders to a position close to the top of the vertical chest bone.
At this point, interruption of any kind, even for the purpose of offering tasty, *warm* lunch/dinner prompt severe rage, which is at first kept in check by the conscious desire to maintain status-quo appearances. This desire gradually becomes less conscious until the victim wonders why they are bothering with such pretenses; at this point parents begin to suspect that something might be out of the ordinary and consequently ask questions. This is perceived as a very invasive, hostile act by the victim, leading to (more or less, depending on the level of regular discipline exacted by the parents during initial education) open conflict and irrational or warped-out-of-perspective argumentation by the victim.
The parents find their suspicion profoundly confirmed and, depending on inventiveness, budget and the severity of the hostile reaction of the victim during above mentioned inquiry, take according action to prevent further deterioration of their offspring from what they consider a sane state of mind.
For instance by getting rid of the mindblowing evil machine.

Haha, good one Kafka.

[jnabb22]

Simple: She doesn't want her offspring to become intellectually dulled out by spending too much time with video-games. I've seen it happen to me when I was still a local offspring; quite a shocking process to close observers: First, the facial musculature loses definition; features become blunt and the whole skin acquires what I commonly call "monitor tan".
Then, the eyes become rather sluggish and the victim tends to ignore anything outside the central 25° field of view. Shoulders sagg and the neck gradually moves from atop and between the shoulders to a position close to the top of the vertical chest bone.
At this point, interruption of any kind, even for the purpose of offering tasty, *warm* lunch/dinner prompt severe rage, which is at first kept in check by the conscious desire to maintain status-quo appearances. This desire gradually becomes less conscious until the victim wonders why they are bothering with such pretenses; at this point parents begin to suspect that something might be out of the ordinary and consequently ask questions. This is perceived as a very invasive, hostile act by the victim, leading to (more or less, depending on the level of regular discipline exacted by the parents during initial education) open conflict and irrational or warped-out-of-perspective argumentation by the victim.
The parents find their suspicion profoundly confirmed and, depending on inventiveness, budget and the severity of the hostile reaction of the victim during above mentioned inquiry, take according action to prevent further deterioration of their offspring from what they consider a sane state of mind.
For instance by getting rid of the mindblowing evil machine.

Mac has paedagogically more valuable games like marble blast gold...
Or maybe she didn't like the Hellenes' theme...?
It could also have been the eastern charge sound.

very nice but so true =)

On a more serious note, to adress the OP,
depending on the hardware of said MAC, you might try

- installing Linux on it and running WINE (windows emulation) which will however severely impede performance but might enable you to run EB - maybe assume roughly half the system's actual hardware stats to allow for the amount of capacity drained by the cumbersome process of translating every single action going on into windows-terms. It's like running an application within and application within an application within...
Only here it's BIOS, binary level, operating system, second operating system, application. Or something like that. The second operating system on top of the first is the only way to get the hardware to behave like different hardware.

- in case it is a Power Mac or even more modern - just install Windows on it... I hear the processors are no longer really different.

- abandoning video games, they make you lose reality and tend to worsen school marks. Severely. EB is the *only* exception - and even with EB it will get tricky after you have consumed the historical facts data and begin re-fashioning history to your own preferences. Claiming you led the Getai out of Roman oppression will get you some laughs from your mates and a reprimand of your teacher, reminding you that that happened in another part of the world during a much earlier period with a different people.

But if the less serious part of this post has some truth to it, the mom might object to any but the last option... And disguising a multi-OS setup seems like a tough task...

Either way, I wish you good fortune in your endeavours.

Thanx i might just try that but not the abandoning games part =)

[cmacq]

Well, there is the spectrum, and then there are the pathologies?


CmacQ

[antisocialmunky]

PC = Games
Mac = Development
Linux = Networking

You could just triple boot or VMWare the Linux. I mean, Macs run on X86 now, there's no good reason why you can't dualboot Windows.

[oudysseos]

I play EB, M2TW all with max video settings etc on a 2 year old 24" iMac using a bootcamp partition with windows xp. For everything else I use MacOS. I have had windows pcs and will never buy another if I can help it.

Anyway, to the OP, you can indeed play games on a Mac (and they look great) but you need to bootcamp windows. For this, you need a windows install disk: the bootcamp part is free with the MAc OS. The process is fairly easy to follow.

[Tellos Athenaios]

I play EB, M2TW all with max video settings etc on a 2 year old 24" iMac using a bootcamp partition with windows xp. For everything else I use MacOS. I have had windows pcs and will never buy another if I can help it.

Anyway, to the OP, you can indeed play games on a Mac (and they look great) but you need to bootcamp windows. For this, you need a windows install disk: the bootcamp part is free with the MAc OS. The process is fairly easy to follow.

The idea is to buy the PC (far better value for money in terms of the hardware) and dump the Windows in favour of a different OS. If you want Mac OS ... the money you save by not buying a MAC can easily more than compensate for having to buy the OS separately. (I mean it: Apple sells some of its consumer hardware with a price tag of enterprise server kits.) Although I got myself Kubuntu 8.10 and upgraded to 9.04 instead (all for free).