11/20/2023 0 Comments Parallels access ios![]() ![]() So, the question is, did any games I tried work well within Parallels Access? As I mentioned earlier, I ruled out a lot of games that just wouldn’t be suited to the lag and keyboard issues. In fact, vibration aside, it was nice to scroll through my games list by sliding my finger along the screen and then tapping a specific game. Switching into big picture mode got rid of the vibration, but added a new set of problems, mostly related to the massive delays between tapping something and then receiving any visual feedback, but Steam’s not exactly a shining example of a typical Mac application, so I put up with it without much complaint. Steam itself loaded (you have to switch across to Access’ excellent application launcher and then search for it, or use the Finder, which was my first foray into frustrating navigation) but then vibrated horribly. So the next thing I did was open up Steam, in preparation for my launching of a bunch of games and seeing what worked. The second issue with the keyboard is that it will just randomly pop up, requiring you to repeatedly close it so it doesn’t obscure what you’re looking at. This really won’t do for any games that require more than a little keyboard input, or at least, games that require you to see what’s happening on the screen whilst pressing keys (I suppose the argument can be made to use a bluetooth keyboard with this setup, but that moves us dangerously close to “missing the point” territory). Really, this is two separate issues, the first of which is that the on-screen iPad keyboard is bewilderingly big (ok, it’s more or less the same size as in every other iPad app, but when you see it pop up over a Mac application it just looks weird), and obscures half the screen. There was a fraction of a second of lag between what the Mac displayed and what the iPad displayed, but typically a second or more between tapping something on the iPad and the Mac responding. So right off the bat, that’s going to rule out a large number of games (basically, anything with a real-time aspect to it). But what was most surprising was that (at least based on my observations of what was happening on the Mac’s monitor) the problem seemed to lie almost entirely in sending inputs from the iPad to the Mac. Honestly I was a little disappointed, because after all the fanfare, I had hoped for something close to OnLive in terms of performance, which is reportedly so good you can play first-person shooters to a degree of competence (I should probably point out that I was using an iPad 2 to connect to a Mac Pro, but I didn’t see anything to indicate that it would perform better on a newer iPad). The very first thing you notice though is the lag. Indeed, if you do what I did, you can now hold your iPad in front of your Mac’s monitor and see everything happen on both screens together, like voodoo magic. Then OHMYGODMYPRECIOUSMACSCREENRESOLUTIONSHRUNK. Once that’s over, you can connect to one of your available Macs (Windows computers are also supported, via a beta agent application, but I’ve not tried it). Then the video signs off with one of the worst abuses of the English language ever to come out of a marketing department, with an invitation to “Applify™ Your Universe!” Assuming these two applications are able to talk to each other, you must then sit through a video on the iPad that is exactly 50% dull and 50% informative (and 90% too long), that shows you how various Mac mouse movements translate into iPad gestures (tap to click, tap with two fingers to right-click, drag to scroll and so on), which are similar to the gestures on a MacBook trackpad (but strangely, not entirely the same with regards to dragging). You’ll also need to install the Mac agent application (this can also be done from within Parallels Desktop 9). Join me now, as we take a journey into this weird world of computers within computers, with one purpose in mind: entertainment.Īfter downloading the iOS application, you’ll need to register a Parallels account (or login if you already have one). ![]() Only natural then, that I would see just how well this can be used to run games from your Mac on your iPad. I’ve been spending a good deal of time with version 9 of Parallels Desktop lately, and one of the advertised benefits is that it comes bundled with 6 months of the new Parallels Access service, which lets you access your Mac from your iPad (ok, it’s a little more complicated than that). ![]() ![]() Published Septemby Ninja Foodstuff in Articles ![]()
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