Marathon Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Runner's 13-mile trip is a tribute to Steve Jobs

by Steven Sande (Aug 29th, 2011)

In the days since the resignation of Steve Jobs as CEO of Apple, Inc., we've seen an amazing outpouring of love for the man and his legacy. But none of those tributes has had quite the impact of marathon runner Joseph Tame accomplished with an iPhone (actually two), the Runkeeper app and ...

Bungie's Marathon, Swords and Soldiers now available on the App Store

by Mike Schramm (Jul 7th, 2011)

Two games we've been eager to see on the App Store have arrived. First up, the unofficial version of Marathon (that's officially approved anyway) is out and ready for you to play. It's a free app by programmer Daniel Blezek, who translated Bungie's old FPS from the Mac to Apple's tablet. This ...

Bungie's Marathon definitely coming to iPad

by Mike Schramm (Jun 24th, 2011)

Bungie has open-sourced its classic first-person shooter Marathon (originally released on the Macintosh), which will pave the way for that rumored port to finally make its way into the world. It looks like developer Daniel Blezek is going to be releasing the game for free, which should take ...

Marathon man preps for second live stream, with multiple iPhones, iPad

by Rick Martin (Feb 9th, 2011)

Readers may recall our report last year on runner and TUAW reader Joseph Tame, who streamed the Tokyo marathon from a head-mounted iPhone. This year's marathon will be held on February 27, and Joseph has found additional ways to make the 42km run even more difficult. Check out the get-up that ...

Marathon coming to the iPad (we hope)

by Kelly Guimont (Feb 7th, 2011)

"Will it play DOOM?" This used to be the first question anyone had about a new bit of gear, regardless of what it was. Oddly, the answer kept being yes. Remember DOOM? You might not if you're a longtime Mac user, since the attempts to bring it to the Mac really only met the dictionary definition ...

Track your favorite runners with the ING New York Marathon app

by Michael Rose (Nov 6th, 2010)

There are some people who regard the prospect of a 26 mile-long run across the bridges, avenues and streets of New York City's five boroughs with eager anticipation, who train diligently for months with single-minded focus to be able to say with well-deserved pride, "Yes, on November 7 2010, I ...

Nike+ iPod equals a weight loss success formula

by Sang Tang (Sep 6th, 2009)

(As a follow up to Tim Wasson's 'An Apple a Day' fitness plan, I thought I'd share my experience on how the Nike+ iPod kit helped me lose weight.) It's high noon in Los Angeles on a late May Sunday. But this isn't your typical Sunday. You see, I'm about to finish my first ever marathon. As I make my ...

iPhone to run Boston Marathon

by Steven Sande (Apr 18th, 2009)

TUAW regulars probably remember our post about a reader in Tokyo who strapped an iPhone to his hat and used Qik to livestream the Tokyo Marathon. Well, now we're about to see an iPhone run the Boston Marathon. It's a very large iPhone with a developer inside! RunKeeper developer Jason Jacobs has ...

TUAW reader livestreaming Tokyo Marathon from head-mounted iPhone

by Steven Sande (Mar 16th, 2009)

If you were looking for a challenge, you might consider running a marathon with an iPhone 3G strapped to your head. That's exactly what TUAW reader Joseph Tame of iPhoning Japan will be doing next Sunday, March 22nd (Saturday night for those of us in the US). Joseph was one of the 5,000 lucky people ...

Bungie says Mac games are still a possibility

by Mike Schramm (Oct 5th, 2007)

Macworld has a quick chat with Bungie after this morning's big announcement that the company is "evolving" away from Microsoft a bit, and the good news is that a new Mac release from our favorite game developer (before they were bought out by the Evil Empire, that is) is not out of the question. ...

Bungie ponders a Marathon revival

by Conrad Quilty-Harper (May 30th, 2006)

In the latest weekly update from Bungie, a fan asks: "Marathon and XBLA (referring to Xbox Live Arcade): is it at all possible?" Bungie, via Frankie, responds "Of course it's possible, it's just not on any current agenda. If it's any consolation, many, many people think it's a good idea." It sucks ...

Aleph One -- Marathon for Mac OS X

by Damien Barrett (Dec 29th, 2005)

One of the last things Bungie did before Microsoft bought them (and their flagship game, Halo), was to release the Marathon code into the open source arena. Until not all that long ago, in order to play Marathon 2 or Infinity, you had to run it on a Mac OS 9 machine, or in Classic (or, shudder, on a ...