dark business / commercial software for mac

Behind a veil of secrecy the evil Empire is creating a doomsday army--one that, if finished, will become the final cog in the Empires arsenal of terror and domination. Your Mission?
Join the Rebel Alliances covert operations division, infiltrate the Empire, then battle every man and machine the Imperial Forces can muster. Search a vast galaxy for clues, attack enemy bases - all in a desperate attempt to stop the activation of this fearsome new weapon.
Its you and your blaster against an entire Empire.
May the Force be with you.
Main features:
- First-person, ground combat
- Call on 10 weapons to fight twenty different enemies
- Explore the virtual Star Wars universe up close and personal
- Fully interactive environments--morphing walls and floors, moving platforms and conveyors, realistic lighting and atmospheric effects

After Dark X + Fish 1.0.1 is an impressive and unique screensaver which will catch your attention immediately.

The moment all you After Dark fans have been waiting for has arrived at last. You can finally have those toasters flying across your OS X screen. Those cute little appliances that were the defining feature of the Mac's early days have returned with a vengeance, spinning and twirling through their natural environment, the vast voids of space!

Warrior Kings is an epic real-time strategy game that uses true 3D to propel you into a living, breathing, bleeding medieval fantasy world. A world for you to master and rule - so what are you waiting for? Cry "Havoc" and let slips the dogs of war! (or at least click on a couple of the links in the menu.)
Imagine another time, another place, another earth. An earth that has shaped itself in d ifferent ways, where history has taken a different path. Our tale begins with the Empire of the One God, a mighty Empire currently at the peak of its power, an empire that controls much of the continent called Orbis.
This Empire is jointly ruled by the secular and religious authorities - the Holy Protector, the commander of the army, and the Supreme Patriarch, spiritual ruler of the Empire.
For centuries, the Holy Protector has kept the barbarians and pagans of Outer Orbis at bay and the Supreme Patriarch has ensured that the True Way of the One God has prevailed throughout the Empire. Tensions and political infighting have dogged the empire from time to time, as different Protectors and Patriarchs have vied for control. Yet, broadly speaking, the Empire has benefited from a long period of peace and stability.
All that has suddenly changed. When the old Patriarch died, the Great Cardinals went into seclusion to elect a new Patriarch. However, the Cardinals made an unexpected choice: Icthyus Granitas was elected as the Supreme Patriarch, in somewhat unusual circumstances. Five of the Cardinals died of a mysterious fever during the election process and several votes had to be retaken due to procedural irregularities. Rumours abound about the past of this new Patriarch - but nothing has ever been proven or charges ever levelled against him.
Under Icthyus Granitas, power and wealth has been strongly centralised at Telamagna, the City of the One God, but the Empire as a whole has begun to crack at the seams. The Holy Protector, Karlem Agnus, once a vigorous and mighty warrior, seems more interested in affairs of the body, rather than affairs of state. He follows the orders of the new Patriarch almost blindly, no matter how nonsensical they seem to the army and the Assembly of the Tribunes. People in the city whisper of dark deeds at the Palace of the Holy Patriarch, of order and civilization sacrificed on the altar of ambition.
Those Great Cardinals who object to the Patriarchs rule disappear, fall ill, or seem to change their minds overnight. Others are replaced with stooges and lickspittles of his choosing. Nobles who oppose him are arrested on trumped up charges of treason or heresy, and summarily executed or exiled. The restless people live in fear. The murder of Tribunes and Captains who oppose the Patriarchs rule is almost a daily occurrence. The army has turned from protecting the Empire from enemies without, to suppressing so-called enemies within.
The Outer Provinces of the Empire have been stripped of their garrisons to police the richer, wealthier and more taxable provinces of the interior, with inevitable consequences. Barbarians and raiders plunder almost at will. Petty princelings and mercenary adventurers from beyond the borders of the Empire grow bolder day by day.
There is much discontent, and the aristocracy have turned to one of the most respected members of the Senate to act as their leader, the Baron Amalric of Cravant.
Unfortunately this has only served to present the Patriarch with a clear target. On the pretext of rampant heresy in the province of Cravant, the Patriarch issued a new edict, stating that the Baron of Cravant has been led astray, and calling on true followers of the faith to stamp out witchcraft and heresy in that province. Shortly after, one of the Patriarchs henchmen, Lothar, the Bishop of Ostrovir, moved against the Duke. Backed by many mercenaries and Imperial troops, he arrested the Duke on false charges, and put him to the sword. But the Dukes son, Artos, escaped with his life, swearing to avenge his fathers death...
You control Artos and the future of House Cravant. Can the young Artos prevail against the might of the Empire, or will he fall victim to the power of the corrupt Patriarch and his evil minions? His destiny, and the future of the Empire are in your hands...
Main features:
- A true 3D game environment with terrain that matters - that is it allows for actual strategic advantage. You can exploit this realistic 3D terrain of rolling hills, deep forests and hidden valleys to out manoeuvre your enemy.
- A highly developed game interface that enables intuitive play by using positive visual cues.
- An evolving game path - that is the game becomes more complex as it develops.
- Rich graphics rendered with historical accuracy.
- A choice of 3 races to join - Imperial, Pagan and Renaissance - each with their own unique features, strengths and weaknesses.
- A massive single-player campaign with three separate and distinct paths.
- Over 35 building types and over 60 different types of unit (pikeman, peasant, etc).
- Internet Play supports up to 8 simultaneous players to participate in on-line tournament matches, playing full-on multi-player games.

Dissolve Factory 1.0.3 is a mighty admirable tool allowing you to create new cross dissolve transitions using various properties of the input video clips. For example, you can use the luminance of the clip to fade darker pixels faster, and lighter pixels slower. Or you can choose a specific color to fade in or out, first or last.

Dock Clock 2.1.4 is an application that places a clock in your clock. It is fully customizable. Just click and hold on the Dock Clock icon in the dock and select "Preferences" from the list that appears.
The Universal dilemma:

Why isn't this a Universal application? Because REALsoftware hasn't fixed a problem with the REALbasic 2000 series that ruins the dock icon. I will make it a Universal application when they fix it.

Major Features:

1. Select your own pictures for the face of the clock
2. Aqua, graphite, and brushed metal (plus many more!) presets included
3. Planet view preset is included so that you can see the progress of the light and dark across the western hemisphere
4. Show/Hide face
5. Customizable colors
6. Thick/Thin border
7. Hourly alarms
8. Quick access to the Date and Time preference pane
9. Analog specific:
   • Show/Hide Numbers
   • Numbers or Roman Numerals
   • Show/Hide the second hand
   • Show/Hide AP/PM
   • Hands/Moving dots
   • Bold hands option
   • Four or twelve tics around the face
   • Circular or square face
10. Digital specific:
    • 12/24 hour time
    • Flashing time separators option
    • Show/Hide AM/PM
    • Show/Hide seconds

Known Issues:

1. Sometimes the icon flickers when magnification is on, especially if the user's custom picture is very large.
2. Note: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) does not support this software. A fix is impossible at this time. Again, Dock Clock will not run on Leopard.

Vinyl Drumkits-Acoustic 1.5 is created as a simple yet useful drum kit library for NI Battery 2-3 or Kontakt 2. 25 drumkits for reproducing the typical sound of the '70s. From dark bass drums and dirty snares to cruchy Hi-Hats and noisy cymbals VINYL DRUMKITS-ACOUSTIC provides a wide-ranging resource for the producer and composer that wants to recreate the groove and feel of the old crackly vinyl.

The new Digigami MegaPEG.X product line approaches video compression from a revolutionary new perspective which includes the compressionist, you, as a key aspect of the compression process.
No longer in the dark about how/why your compressed video looks good or bad, MegaPEG.X and its big brother Pro (G4/G5) include all the tools you need to take your own video compression projects from good, to better, to perfect.
With detailed feedback tools which show you exactly how the bitrate and compression are being applied over the length of the movie file, in conjunction with an encoder configurable in just about any way you can imagine, every person can have the fine-control over compression that the big Hollywood studios enjoy.
Make Web Movies, VideoCD, Super-VideoCD or DVD files quickly and easily, and over time, learn how to exceed what most people consider to be state of the art quality for any particular medium.
Includes descriptive overview of the MPEG compression process, and how to interpret the graphical analysis and use what you learn to alter compression settings fine tuned for your material.
Even more, you can RIP and analyze Hollywood DVD discs (requires separate decryption software - available elsewhere on VT) to find out exactly how Hollywood discs are compressed.
Gorgeous Aqua GUI with wild new buttons that actually indent where you click them. Includes over 40 predefined templates which cover the gamut of video compression tasks.
Enhancements:
- Improved Optical Flow Calculations
- Higher quality _and_ faster encoding.
- Bug fixes.