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OS: MAC OS X 10.8 to 10.12 // WARNING: 10.13 Not yet compatible Processor: 1.7 GHz Intel Core i5 Memory: 4 MB RAM Graphics: 512 MB AMD Radeon HD 4850, NVidia GeForce 640 or Intel HD 4000 Storage: 6 MB available space Additional Notes: Minimum Resolution: 1280 x 720. RECOMMENDED: OS: MAC OS X 10.8 to 10.12 // WARNING: 10.13 Not yet compatible. Thank you all for your support! Monstrous Lovers is a visual novel under development by Man-Eater Games for PC, Mac OS and Linux. With a cast inspired by classic horror movies, this our take on both the boys' love genre and monster boys.

Installation

The 10.1 installer looks and behaves almost exactly like the 10.0 installer. The differences are mainly in the choices and sizes of the installed components. The component selection for both a clean install and an upgrade to 10.1 are shown below (required components are in bold):

Mac OS X 10.1 Components
NameInstall SizeUpgrade Size
Base System325,238K215,238K
Essential System Software464,808K0K
BSD Subsystem81,243K2,723K
Additional Printer Drivers111,593K36,831K
Japanese Localized Files23,045K23,045K
German Localized Files22,854K22,854K
French Localized Files23,228K23,228K
Spanish Localized Files22,816K22,816K
Italian Localized Files22,658K22,658K
Dutch Localized Files19,362K19,362K
Total:1,219,245K357,192K

(Yes, I know the columns don't add up to the totals listed, but I'm just going by what the installer application displayed. Maybe it knows something I don't.)

I chose the 'upgrade' installation, installing on top of 10.0.4 on both the G3/400 (on the 12GB drive) and dual G4/450. I chose not to install the foreign language kits, leaving the total tonnage of changed bits at 254,792K, according to my calculations—which may or may not agree with the installer's.

That's a lot of new or changed files for a fairly minimal install of a '.1' revision upgrade. I suspect there are three reasons for this. First, some components are completely new (e.g. the DVD player application). Second, many components have had code changes since 10.0.4: bug fixes, new features, optimizations, etc. Third, components that have not had any code changes may have been recompiled with the (presumably) improved version of Apple's compiler. My guess is that components with code changes make up the bulk of the upgrade installation.

The developer tools components (all of which are optional) look like this:

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Mac OS X 10.1 Developer Tools
NameSize
Developer Tools Software86,121K
Mac OS X SDK187,089K
Developer Documentation187,089K
Developer Example Software26,657K
ProjectBuilderWO IDE6,028K
Total:575,562K

(The total size listed above is the simple addition of the component sizes. I forgot to note the size indicated by the installer, and I'm not willing to wipe the disk again and reinstall to obtain the information :-)

I installed the developer tools on both systems, omitting only the ProjectBuilderWO IDE.

Bundled Applications

If you add up the clean-install sizes for the whole OS and developer tools, it comes out to over 1.7GB. That disk real estate buys you a modern OS with a complete development environment and documentation, suitable for basic email, web browsing, and video editing (iMovie 2 is included), plus a complete BSD-derived Unix environment. The only thing missing is a basic office-type application suite for word processing, spreadsheets, and such.

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DVD playback has been promised for OS X since 10.0, and it finally arrives in 10.1—but not for everyone. The DVD player application was not even installed on the G3/400 because its DVD playback hardware is not (yet?) supported. In fact, DVD playback is only supported on AGP-equipped Macs, leaving the 'Yikes' Power Mac G4 in the lurch as well (unsupported hacks notwithstanding).

This is disappointing, given the smooth playback provided by the G3's dedicated hardware when used in Mac OS 9, and the amount of time Apple has had to implement the OS X player. It seems to me that the software-based playback used on the G4 series would be harder to code than the hardware-based playback on the G3. I hope DVD support for the remaining unsupported machines will arrive before they all pass into obsolescence.

On the bright side, DVD playback on supported machines seems much improved over the Mac OS 9 experience. I tested the feature on the dual G4/450 by playing movies in a player window in the corner of my screen during a normal work day. There was no skipping or stuttering, and the audio and video always stayed in sync. The picture looked very good as well, with no obvious decompression artifacts.

The DVD player 'remote' (the floating control window) looks a lot like a larger version of the minimized iTunes window. It has both vertical and horizontal orientations, and sports the usual variety of movie control functions (some hidden in a slide-out panel). You can see the player in action at Apple's web site. The horizontal version of the remote appears below.


The DVD remote (see also: vertical version)

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As in Mac OS 9, it is possible to play DVD movies 'on the desktop' by setting the desktop pattern to be a particular color. The DVD player uses this color as a mask for its video display, allowing the movie to appear on the desktop pattern even when the player window itself is hidden. (Unfortunately, this trick doesn't play well with the transparent drop-shadows on OS X windows, making it a somewhat ugly experience in X.)

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It's nice to see iMovie 2 included, but I couldn't test it since I don't have a DV camera, and the iMovie 'dog wash' tutorial movie does not seem to be installed.

Another notable addition is a Mac OS X native version of Acrobat Reader 5.0—a tacit acknowledgement that the Preview application (which uses on Quartz's built-in PDF support) does not support enough of the most recent PDF spec to read all PDF documents that users might encounter.

Applications that already existed in 10.0.x have also been revised for 10.1. Internet Explorer version 5.1.2 is a considerable improvement over the 5.1 'preview' version in 10.0.x. Some of the rough edges have been polished, and pages seem to render more quickly. But it still feels like a Mac OS 9 application dressed up for OS X, especially when compared to the true blue Aqua interface of OmniWeb.

The bundled Mail application includes many important bug fixes, and has been much less crash-prone when handling my monstrous collection of email across more than 10 different accounts. Other users have had the opposite experience, however. Your mileage may vary.

iTunes looks identical, but the playback experience is a whole new ball game (more on that later). The iTunes Dock icon pop-up menu now includes simple song control functions, as well as the artist and title of the current song (see image top right).

The revised Terminal application adds support for many more text encodings (see image right). This feature was much-requested by non-English speakers. Unfortunately, something seems to have broken during the revision because the 10.1 Terminal does not play nicely with saved terminal sessions. Some saved session files don't work at all, producing only a local shell prompt regardless of the command that was supposed to execute. Others now appear to launch a local shell prompt and merely 'type' the command at that prompt for you, rather than running the requested command directly (i.e. without running a shell first). Compare the result of running the command 'telnet www.apple.com 80' in the version of Terminal from 10.0.4 and the version that comes with 10.1:


'telnet www.apple.com 80' in the 10.0.4 Terminal


'telnet www.apple.com 80' in the 10.1 Terminal

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These may seem like a handful of minor annoyances, but they combine to make the user experience less efficient (and less pleasant) for someone who opens and closes a lot of different terminals during the day. After fighting with the new Terminal application for a few days, I reinstalled the version of Terminal that came with 10.0.4, and have been using that instead. In my opinion, that's bad sign for whomever's responsible for the Terminal application at Apple.

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(It's also worth noting that other users have had different experiences—both worse and better. I'm not sure exactly what's going on, but it doesn't seem good.)