Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Bejeweled 2 Deluxe costs $19.95 and requires Mac OS X 10.3.9, a G4 processor, and 128 MB of RAM.
Macgamestore: Bejeweled 2 Deluxe Universal Binary Available

read this on: http://www.insidemacgames.com/news/story.php?ArticleID=15697

Download demo or purchase game directly from popcap.com - don't download or buy from macgamesstore if you use Little Snitch as game won't even launch after detecting mere presence of Little Snitch.

Watch out! If you got this as part of a pack of games, and more than two months ago, you won't be able to register it, or go back to the previous version.

I haven't been able to trace the problem yet, but on my system running 10.3.9 I have random system crashes caused by the system freezing, monitor shutting off, and other graphics/video crashes. This is using version 1.0. However, since they indicate the only changes made have been with respect to serial numbers, it's not worth another system crash to test this version.

This game is a lot of fun but its coded very poorly...its not unstable but it consumes from 80-90% of your CPU which is ridiculous considering the simplicity of the game and its graphics. This may not bother you on your desktop with its army of fans but on a laptop its the kiss of death, on a 1.25Ghz Aibook, it will kick the fan on and keep it on for as long as you play...murder on your equipment, your ears and your battery life. until they fix this bug its not worth playing on a laptop and as of v 1.71 of the registered version, they have not fixed the problem.