On March 24, 2001, the iMac was less than three years old, the iPod was still more than six months away, and Macs ran at astounding speeds of up to 733MHz. But most importantly, Apple on that day released the first official version of Mac OS X, changing the future of its platform forever.
Though nobody knew it at the time, the release, codenamed Cheetah, was the first step in transforming Apple from a company poised on the verge of disaster into the second most valuable company in the world.
Were you to engage in a flight of fancy, you might call Mac OS X the deliverance for the tenacious few that had held onto Apple in the dark times, through the era when the Mac product line had proliferated into a writhing, seething mass of cryptic models in a seeming attempt to out-PC the PC makers. Mac OS X was a sign that the direction of the company had really and truly changed, after years of failed attempts to modernize the Mac OS.
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The coup of Mac OS X, more than anything else, is that it shipped. The road to a new version of the Mac OS was littered with the unmarked graves of projects that had gone before: Taligent. Copland. Gershwin.
Despite the early release of a public beta with its own radical changes, that first shipping version of Mac OS X was far from perfect: It couldn’t play DVDs or burn CDs; performance was often sluggish; and the interface was distinctly different—and in many ways cruder—than its predecessor. But Apple does as it always does: it rolls. And over the following years, the company issued update after update, both minor and major, improving the system in a multitude of ways while slowly winning over converts from both the PC and the classic Mac OS.
Ten years later, Mac OS X is still by no means perfect. Ask any Mac user, and I guarantee that, without hesitation, they’ll draw up a list of things that annoy them about the operating system they use every day. But were you to plot the satisfaction of most Mac users on an entirely unscientific graph, I’d boldly wager you’d find it trended upward over time.
To me, there’s no greater testament of Mac OS X’s success than my own friends and family. In the ’90s, the majority were PC users and even those few that had stuck by the Mac soon moved to what they saw as the greener pastures of PCs—if for no other reason than they were far more affordable than the Macs of that age. But now, ten years after the release of Mac OS X, they’re far more likely to be packing an aluminum MacBook than a cheap plastic Dell. Though that might not be a feat to lay solely at the feet of the operating system—Apple’s emphasis on hardware design, Microsoft’s numerous missteps, and my own repeated entreaties probably contributed—it’s hard to argue that Mac OS X didn’t play a major role.
Not just because it dragged Macs into the modern era, with long-awaited features like preemptive multitasking and protected memory, previously the domain of its competitors. After all, the vast majority of computer users probably couldn’t tell you what either of those even means. No, they came to the Mac because as Apple improved Mac OS X, it stuck to an underlying philosophy: the operating system isn’t an end unto itself; it’s about making it as easy as possible to use computers to do things.
That’s the same philosophy that Apple has taken with the iPhone and the iPad, and to my mind it’s the reason that those products have met with such overwhelming success. Frankly, it’s hard not to see the impact of Mac OS X on most of the major decisions Apple has made in the past decade, whether it be the importance of iTunes, the transition to Intel processors, or the development of iOS devices—which, after all, are based on the same OS X underpinnings as the Mac.
As we embark upon Mac OS X’s second decade, the Mac’s operating system is about to undergo another major shift, perhaps no less significant than that from the classic Mac OS. In the forthcoming Mac OS X Lion, the student becomes the teacher: Apple is beginning to fold features from its iOS devices back into the Mac OS, taking its desktop computer software down a new and very different path.
While those changes have worried some—especially those who have long been invested in Mac OS X—progress, good or bad, is inevitable. The Mac OS X of ten years hence is going to be as different from today’s Snow Leopard as Snow Leopard is from Mac OS X 10.0, but at its core, that future Mac OS X is going to be rooted in those same fundamentals of getting technology out of our way so we can get on with our lives.
As always, the proof will be in the using. But if I may return to my thoroughly unscientific hypothetical graph from above, I’d pose an estimated guess that a decade down the road, that line of satisfaction will continue to trend upwards, and we’ll all be looking back on the Mac OS of 2011 and shaking our heads at what we were missing.
[Dan Moren is a senior associate editor at Macworld, and a Mac OS X user since the year 2000.]
Type | Division |
---|---|
Industry | Video games |
Founded | 2002 |
Defunct | 2011 |
Fate | Parent and the company dissolved, brand still used as distribution label by THQ Nordic |
Headquarters | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Parent | DreamCatcher Interactive (JoWooD Entertainment) |
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The Adventure Company was a Canadian video game developer and a former publishing division of DreamCatcher Interactive. It was sold to THQ Nordic GmbH in 2011 following DreamCatcher's parent (JoWooD Entertainment) assets being sold after entering administration.
History[edit]
The Adventure Company was first launched in January 2002 as a division and brand of DreamCatcher Interactive to distribute their adventure games titles under. The first title released under the new brand was The Cameron Files: Secret at Loch Ness which was released at the end of January 2002.[1] The Adventure Company has worked with many developers including: Kheops Studio, THQ, Microïds, and Cryo Interactive. In 2006 DreamCatcher Interactive became a wholly owned subsidiary of the Austrian video game publisher JoWooD Entertainment.[2]
On August 16, 2011, Nordic Games announced that it had acquired JoWooD, its products and brands and some of the companies' subsidiaries.[3] Following the acquisition it was announced that JoWood and the Adventure Company will become publishing labels for Nordic Games, a wholly owned subsidiary of Nordic Games Holding.[4]
Published games[edit]
Note: This list is for titles which The Adventure Company published. Re-releases of DreamCatcher Interactive games nor Nordic Games titles under The Adventure Company are not included.
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Year | Title | Platform(s) |
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24 January 2002 | The Cameron Files: Secret at Loch Ness | Microsoft Windows |
9 May 2002 | The Mystery of the Nautilus | |
23 July 2002 | Dark Fall: The Journal | |
23 September 2002 | Law & Order: Dead on the Money | Microsoft Windows, Mac OS |
29 October 2002 | The Cameron Files: Pharaoh's Curse | Microsoft Windows |
19 March 2003 | Riddle of the Sphinx 2: The Omega Stone | |
17 October 2003 | Missing: Since January | Microsoft Windows, Mac OS |
28 February 2003 | Post Mortem | Microsoft Windows |
23 July 2003 | Dark Fall | |
30 September 2003 | Law & Order II: Double or Nothing | |
17 October 2003 | The Black Mirror | |
28 October 2003 | Traitors Gate 2: Cypher | |
17 November 2003 | Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon | Microsoft Windows, Xbox |
25 November 2003 | Mysterious Journey II | Microsoft Windows |
12 March 2004 | Mysterious Journey II: Chameleon | |
29 March 2004 | The Egyptian Prophecy | |
5 April 2004 | Forever Worlds: Enter the Unknown | |
29 June 2004 | Aura: Fate of the Ages | |
29 June 2004 | Missing: Since January | Microsoft Windows, Mac OS |
31 August 2004 | Dark Fall: Lights Out | Microsoft Windows |
23 September 2004 | Crystal Key 2 | |
15 October 2004 | Atlantis Evolution | Microsoft Windows, Mac OS |
3 December 2004 | Return to Mysterious Island | Microsoft Windows, Mac OS |
14 December 2004 | Sentinel: Descendants in Time | Microsoft Windows |
1 March 2005 | The Moment of Silence | |
15 April 2005 | Still Life | Microsoft Windows, Xbox |
24 June 2005 | Crime Stories: From the Files of Martin Mystère | Microsoft Windows |
5 July 2005 | ECHO: Secrets of the Lost Cavern | Microsoft Windows, Mac OS |
18 August 2005 | Voyage: Inspired by Jules Verne | Microsoft Windows |
31 August 2005 | Nibiru: Age of Secrets | |
October 14, 2005 | MISSING: The 13th Victim | |
27 October 2005 | Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None | Microsoft Windows, Wii |
20 December 2005 | The Mystery of the Mummy | Microsoft Windows, Nintendo DS |
17 March 2006 | Keepsake | Microsoft Windows |
21 March 2006 | Crime Stories | |
2 August 2006 | Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure | |
16 October 2006 | Evidence: The Last Ritual | |
17 October 2006 | Sam & Max Season One | |
14 November 2006 | Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express | |
13 March 2007 | Hans Christian Andersen: The Ugly Prince Duckling | |
25 April 2007 | The Sacred Rings | |
29 May 2007 | The Secrets of Atlantis: The Sacred Legacy | |
6 June 2007 | Keepsake | |
3 July 2007 | Dead Reefs | |
7 August 2007 | Sam & Max Save the World: Season One | Microsoft Windows, Wii |
16 October 2007 | Agatha Christie: Evil Under the Sun | |
20 November 2007 | Next Life | Microsoft Windows |
26 May 2008 | Murder in the Abbey | |
2 June 2008 | Dracula: Origin | |
26 August 2008 | Outcry | |
5 February 2008 | The Experiment | |
30 September 2008 | The Hardy Boys: The Hidden Theft | Microsoft Windows, Wii |
2 December 2008 | A Vampyre Story | Microsoft Windows, Mac OS |
28 October 2011 | The Book of Unwritten Tales | Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, Linux |
References[edit]
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- ^Walker, Trey (2002-01-10). 'DreamCatcher launches The Adventure Company'. GameSpot. Archived from the original on 2013-01-23. Retrieved 2011-08-17.
- ^'JoWooD to acquire Video Game Publisher DreamCatcher Inc'. euro adhoc. 2006-11-03. Archived from the original on 2011-08-17. Retrieved 2011-08-17.
- ^'JoWooD & The Adventure Company, wholly owned labels of Nordic Games'. Nordic Games. Archived from the original on 2011-08-17. Retrieved 2011-08-17.
- ^'Nordic Games Holding AB Group Acquires JoWood & The Adventure Company'. Nordic Games. 2011-08-16. Archived from the original on 2012-01-18. Retrieved 2011-08-17.
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