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Hi,

will there be any Mac Games in the near future?
No, because Macs are for editing multimedia and not for playing games.
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Smannesman: No, because Macs are for editing multimedia and not for playing games.
That was 10 years ago man...half the games I own on my Steam Account, work on my mac as well.
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geckoman: Hi,

will there be any Mac Games in the near future?
No one knows. It is certainly easy as pie to port the games over. The difficulty is most likely relicensing the games for OS X.
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geckoman: Hi,

will there be any Mac Games in the near future?
Best bet is still Wine/Crossover I think. To be honest, GOG has enough trouble doing product support on Windows XP-7, doing it on Macs now would probably just obliterate the system. Valve took years to add Mac games, so I think we'd have to wait for GOG to get much bigger, especially in the support department. I'd like to see Mac games too, but reasonably I think it will be awhile.
Just about any game that runs via dosbox (a LOT of gog titles) will run via the native version of dosbox for Mac.

I run Pandora Directive just fine, Realms of Arkania runs fine too. You can get other titles working via Crosssover/Wine, sure but they can require a lot more configuration simply because there are so many wine engines to try before you find the one that handles the game better. Dosbox is more straight forward.

Best bet is to visit the forums for titles you like, find out if it runs via dosbox and if anyone's tried it on their mac.
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Porkdish: Just about any game that runs via dosbox (a LOT of gog titles) will run via the native version of dosbox for Mac.

I run Pandora Directive just fine, Realms of Arkania runs fine too. You can get other titles working via Crosssover/Wine, sure but they can require a lot more configuration simply because there are so many wine engines to try before you find the one that handles the game better. Dosbox is more straight forward.

Best bet is to visit the forums for titles you like, find out if it runs via dosbox and if anyone's tried it on their mac.
Ah, yes DosBox (don't forget ScummVM too which should work on the Mac). The best way to check compatibility with Wine-Mac for my money is the two GOGmixes devoted to games working on Wine for Mac and another two GOGmixes for all games run on DosBox or ScummVM.
i wouldn't count on it really. gog is great OLD games, and old games for the mac will not run on modern macs. Any game made for a Mac Pre-OS-X will not run on an intel-based mac, and OS-X games that were made for g3 and g4 processors often won't run fast enough in rosetta to be playable.
The mac is becoming a great native platform for games, but for your GOG's, the best bet is to get Dosbox for the mac and to grab a copy of Windows XP and use bootcamp.
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deelee74: i wouldn't count on it really. gog is great OLD games, and old games for the mac will not run on modern macs. Any game made for a Mac Pre-OS-X will not run on an intel-based mac, and OS-X games that were made for g3 and g4 processors often won't run fast enough in rosetta to be playable.
The mac is becoming a great native platform for games, but for your GOG's, the best bet is to get Dosbox for the mac and to grab a copy of Windows XP and use bootcamp.
Actually I've found Wine to be compatible with especially a lot of older Windows games these days (minus an annoying problem in OSX with joystick compatibility) - though I have a boot camp partition just in case ... :)

But that is in general a fair point, games of classic OS 9 or earlier are not going to work in OS X without major rewrites and Apple is even moving away from supporting non-intel programs - so Rosetta will go away in OS X Lion, at least support for it will go away, maybe you'll still be able to have it - so again, major program program re-writes.
Post edited March 05, 2011 by crazy_dave
Thx for the Tips with DOS-Box etc. but I will jump on the Bootcamp-Train, so no more Problems with Compatibility, IF the game runs on win7 ;)
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geckoman: Thx for the Tips with DOS-Box etc. but I will jump on the Bootcamp-Train, so no more Problems with Compatibility, IF the game runs on win7 ;)
To be honest with older games sometimes Wine is more compatible than Win7, but with newer games you're better off with bootcamp since you'll have support for the latest DX and other Win-API features.