If Cocoa is the "food of the gods" does that make Cocoa for Mac OS X, the framework of the gods ? Cocoa is an object-oriented application environment designed specifically for developing Mac OS X-only native applications.
I've just come back from being all over the city, checked out McGills
and Boarders and found no books on Cocoa besides dummies books. I then
went to Dymocks and found Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X (2nd Edition) by Aaron Hillegass for $75 AU. Whilst I could have got this book cheaper from Amazon, I would have had to wait at least 2 weeks before it would arrive.
Aspyr today began shipping Command N' Conquer Generals Zero Hour, the first expansion pack for Command N' Conquer Generals.
"With new units, structures, and upgrades, as well as the all-new
Generals Challenge Mode, Command & Conquer Generals Zero Hour
delivers all the firepower players need in the quest to become the
ultimate modern warfare General."
The demo for C&C Generals can be downloaded from here.
Now, I must say, I'm a little annoyed at how easy it was to break OS X.
I think there should be better controls in place, especially for the
Finder app as it is the crux of the OS and when it locks up, the OS is
pretty much useless (yes, you can't even open Terminal).
It all started after I'd installed two apps - OS X VNC and Virtue
(Virtual Desktops). I had configured Virtue and had it working nicely
and I then thought I'd better reboot the machine to see if it starts up
that way. The Finder would lock up immediately with the psychadelic
spinning pin wheel and then nothing would respond, the desktop, the
dock, nothing.
After having no troubles at all getting Samba happily working (copying
files from XP to Mac), I then decided it would be interesting to test
out the graphics card (GeForce FX 5200) in this iMac on a few of the
latest games.
So, off I went to MacGameFiles to see what's around.
I've been using the Mac for about an hour now and this mouse
slowiness/sluggishiness is starting to get annoying. This lack of
responsiveness reflects on the whole OS. Moving from OS X to another
machine running XP, makes XP seem like it's as fast as BeOS !!! (okay
okay ... temporary insanity ... no GUI is as responsive as BeOS)
Something is wrong here and with a little searching on the net, I've
found out why.
