<Jeff Bequette wrote: >Has anyone else been hit by this upgrade to Quicktime 7,6 and it >incompatibility with some Aspyr products. My daughter is going thru >Sims 2 withdrawal and I'm missing Civilization 3. One list I looked >at suggested 'reverting to QT7.5 What would be the best way to do >this till Apple and Aspyr come up with a patch? Dual >1.8/4gRAM/OS10.4.11/QTpro7.6
Apple really screwed up with this. And downgrading QuickTime is NOT easy unless you've kept good backups. MacFixIt has detailed instructions. <http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20090125215418693> - Dan> Jeff, I really and truly hope Dan's suggestion works for you, and OMG offer my sympathies to your daughter on her Sims withdrawal, because Aspyr sucks. Know this: For the past couple of years, I've been a pretty active member of the online Sims community and I've read numerous stories from other Simmers in the Mac Sims areas of the forums, none of which were even remotely encouraging. In addition, The Sims 3 is going to be officially out "any minute" now. Therefore, do not count on Apple or especially Aspyr to do anything meaningful to support The Sims 2 anymore, presuming their support of it was acceptable in the past. Aspyr TOTALLY STOPPED SUPPORTING The Sims 1 (MY game: I didn't like Sims 2) WAY BEFORE THEY STOPPED SELLING IT even, and Apple didn't give a flying f*** in the past when its OS X Tiger update from 10.4.2 to 10.4.3 COMPLETELY FUBAR BROKE the Sims 1 create-a-sim, wardrobe and pet adoption screens (an issue I'm stuck with on my G4 that has made me seriously consider downgrading my Tiger on numerous occasions ever since my G4 started freezing when I booted in OS 9) -- and Aspyr didn't care either, they said it was Apple's issue, according to a Mac Simmer at TSR who had posted about the problem and her experience in contacting both Aspyr and Apple at the time. I know another Mac Simmer who discovered that Aspyr's Sims 1 Complete Collection did not make the objects from the Deluxe sets usable on Mac (Complete Collection for PC had all the Deluxe stuff, and PC Simmers could use it as-is immediately), and she had to hack them all herself to be able to use them. She told me she's never going to buy another Aspyr game again because she's disgusted with what she called their "sloppy programming" and lack of support. Good luck!!!! ~Yersinia. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
