Step Toward Universal Computing, Run linux game on apple,etc

[XMEN Iceman]

"A Silicon Valley startup claims to have cracked one of most elusive goals of the software industry: a near-universal emulator that allows software developed for one platform to run on any other, with almost no performance hit." <br><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0, ... _tophead_2" target="top">Link to Wired New Article</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br>"The company claimed QuickTransit eliminates the need to port software from one platform to another. Software applications written for one platform will run on almost any other, without any modifications to the underlying program. <br><br>For example, Wiederhold said QuickTransit will allow the next-generation Xbox (which will have a Mac-like PowerPC chip) to run first-generation Xbox software (which was written for an Intel chip). <br><br>In demonstrations to press and analysts, the company has shown a graphically demanding game -- a Linux version of Quake III -- running on an Apple PowerBook."<br><br><br>WICKED!!!! <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :) --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/smile.gif ALT=":)"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <br><br><br><br> <p><table border=0><tr><td><embed align=left src=http://www.thzclan.com/avatars/ezice.swf menu=false quality=high bgcolor=#000000 width=217 height=166 type=application/x-shockwave-flash pluginspage=http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/dow ... <td><table border=0 style='Filter: Shadow(Color=#BB1403,Direction=255)'><tr><td><span class='usertitle'>XMEN Iceman [DTM]<br>Founder and Leader of the Base Tribes XMEN Clan<br>Proud member of the Dragon Talon Mercenaries teamplayers Guild<br>Citizen of New Fenecia<br><br>You weren't much of a challenge - T2 bot after killing Iceman<br><br>- click on avatar for links - no, not sausage links!</span></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></p><i></i>

[Ambush Bug]

First off, I must say I smell a bit of BS.. namely because the two applications listed in the articles (GIMP and Q3) have native versions for the OS in question. I have GIMP on my Windows machine, and there's an Apple version of Q3 already out.<br><br>However, if this thing actuallys works, count me in for grabbing a copy. <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Particularly</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> if it will enable Win32 apps on Linux boxen. My gaming habits keep my home machine as a Windows machine... which is a situatin I am never totally happy with. (Granted, I'd be <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>most</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> happy if I could have kept OS/2 on it, but that's another thread) Converting to a Linux box while still being able to game with everyone easily would be ideal. <p></p><i></i>

[XMEN Iceman]

Amen to that brother!!! Wouldn't that be sweet??? <p><table border=0><tr><td><embed align=left src=http://www.thzclan.com/avatars/ezice.swf menu=false quality=high bgcolor=#000000 width=217 height=166 type=application/x-shockwave-flash pluginspage=http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/dow ... <td><table border=0 style='Filter: Shadow(Color=#BB1403,Direction=255)'><tr><td><span class='usertitle'>XMEN Iceman [DTM]<br>Founder and Leader of the Base Tribes XMEN Clan<br>Proud member of the Dragon Talon Mercenaries teamplayers Guild<br>Citizen of New Fenecia<br><br>You weren't much of a challenge - T2 bot after killing Iceman<br><br>- click on avatar for links - no, not sausage links!</span></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></p><i></i>

[XMEN Gambit]

<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr> First off, I must say I smell a bit of BS<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>Oh, yeah. Nose is a-twitchin', big time. Gonna take more than an article in Wired to make a believer of me.<br><br>Remember the Phantom console, and the BS they have and continue to shovel regarding it? And there are still "analysts" who write for supposedly respectable financial sources who recommend betting on SCO as a big winner in their legal schizophenia. <p><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://www.xmenclan.org/xmengambit.gif"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br>XMEN member<br>Card-carrying DTM<br>OKL Fish-napper<br><br>Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to be maintained.<br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em> The Tao of Programming</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--></p><i></i>

[Dark Knife]

*Sheepish grin*<br>Sorry bout the noses guys I had Taco Bell.<br> <p></p><i></i>