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I am verrrry pleased :) Thanks so much for adding Mac versions of the games!

Or are these the DOS/Win versions running on Wine or some emulator? Well, even if so, nice to give Mac users a chance. I guess Core2Duo means I can't play them on my MacBook, yet (I got a CoreDuo, which is 32bit), but still nice, anyway!

Also, thanks for the big Interplay catalog promo. Very nice :)

However, it would have been nice to send out a short about the Divine promo. I came too late to grab the rest of the series. :(
Post edited October 19, 2012 by amix
Some are native versions (indie games, The Witcher 2), one is a WINE port (The Witcher 1), and some are DOSBox/Boxer* versions (classic games). Playing the classic games on the Mac through DOSBox/Boxer is no different than playing them through DOSBox on Windows (or Linux for that matter). DOSBox and WINE are pretty efficient, but as always check your specs and people's experience.

*DOSBox is the general emulator to play DOS games on Windows, Linux, and Mac - Boxer is the particular implementation of it used by GOG (and many Mac forumers before GOG introduced official compatibility).
Post edited October 19, 2012 by crazy_dave
Hmm...I maybe should have posted to the main thread rather then opening a new one ;)
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crazy_dave: Some are native versions (indie games, The Witcher 2), one is a WINE port (The Witcher 1), and some are DOSBox/Boxer* versions (classic games).
Thanks for pointing that out. I think they should make that visible in the user's library. Till now I simply downloaded the Windows installer, unarchived it using Wine and used Boxer to import the game files. On the other side, for those, like me, who know a little bit about what's going on on the market, platform wise, it may not be needed to mark them extra. I can guess which one is OS X native or not. Especially, since the old ones may have been OS7/8/9, which would require an emulator these days, anyway.
Post edited October 19, 2012 by amix
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amix: Especially, since the old ones may have been OS7/8/9, which would require an emulator these days, anyway.
GOG uses the DOS or Windows version of such games though, both those platforms are much easer to emulate or virtualise through DOSBox or Wine (or even replace the original engine with ScummVM, if supported) than Mac OS versions before OS X (all solutions I know of requires launching the virtual environment first, then the application, which is one step too many, and I know of only one that doesn't require Mac OS itself and a ROM image - Executor - and that hasn't been updated in ages).