[ebolla]

Is there anyway that you can force a full screen game to play in a window? i have a 17" monitor on my powermac and perfer to play games as distractions from my work
so i find the distraction a bit too successful when the game forces the screen resolution and closes me off from all my other applications by demanding full screen.
i generally play sim city and halo
halo has an option to play in a window but still takes control of the mouse

thanks for the help

[Truepop]

I can't speak for sim city but halo does have a windowed mode option (as you said) and technically doesn't have a full screen view it's a max'd window so command-tab will switch you.

play the game, pause it, and hit cammand-tab and you should have your mouse back.

I am not clear on what you mean that halo takes control of the mouse. even simpler games like marble blast take control of the mouse in game.