mindaugas Posted November 23, 2005 Share Posted November 23, 2005 Just wanted to find out what everyone's thoughts on gaming with OS X in the future. With Intel based systems coming out do you think we'll see more games for Macs and PC's. Mac LAN parties? I haven't done much research, but is anyone playing anything with Tiger x86? I tried WoW but obviously it couldn't find any 3D cards lol. ...Maybe there's a driver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbz Posted November 26, 2005 Share Posted November 26, 2005 I imagine games will not be ported to mac more than they already are, but companies will release apps which will allow PC games on mac os x, and there's always the option of installing windows. Don't forget that even games would have to be universal binaries! In short, I think games and the new macs will share a much closer relationship, but it may not neccesarily be because of seperate mac verions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
depeo Posted November 26, 2005 Share Posted November 26, 2005 I imagine games will not be ported to mac more than they already are, but companies will release apps which will allow PC games on mac os x, and there's always the option of installing windows. Don't forget that even games would have to be universal binaries! In short, I think games and the new macs will share a much closer relationship, but it may not neccesarily be because of seperate mac verions. I sure hope Transgaming will port Cedega to Mac OS X, shouldn't be that hard on the intel macs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darktear Posted November 28, 2005 Share Posted November 28, 2005 jared_kipe over at macrumors.com did send an e-mail to transgaming and asked about this... jared_kipe07-01-2005, 04:41 PM For anyone who doesn't know Transgaming is a group of programers who offer an api for linux that allows linux (on x68) to play directx games. Obviously with the recent switch to x86 processors for the Mac I was interested to see what Transgaming was thinking about that. I wrote them an email.. "With the recent switch of CPU architecture for the Mac platform switching to x86 based hardware. I believe you may find in a years time a new market for your winex based software. Since OSX is already UNIX based, and can run LINUX compiled binaries under X11, I feel that your company could profit heavily if they take the time to write an easy to use mac version of your software. You should also know that developers can pickup a test system from apple for $999 with a P4 in it runing OSX 10.4.1 (though I would imagine if you talked with apple they might let you have one for far less when they realize what you can bring to the mac platform). Thank you, Jared Kipe" To which they responded.. "Hello TransGaming, like the rest of the world, was surprised to hear of Apple's announcement to move from IBM PowerPC to Intel x86 processors. We will continue to stay apprised of the public announcements that Apple makes regarding this matter and will assess the opportunities for TransGaming at a later date when we have a more complete picture of Apple's strategy. -- Lucas Smithen Quality Assurance and Technical Support TransGaming Technologies lucas@transgaming.com -- Let the Games Begin!" Short of Aspyr, or someone, else doing something similar; I believe this will be the best thing for gaming on the mac platform. http://forums.macrumors.com/archive/index.php/t-135591.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slip Posted November 28, 2005 Share Posted November 28, 2005 Platypus Free trial game wrks on 81111. Shows off more than Pocket Tanks. The link to it is in Bookmarks show all/ Mac / Mac osx Hotdownloads . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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