I wonder if it's safe to assume that, since GOG provides a Mac version of SS2 (presumably in a Wineskin?), there will likewise be a Mac version of SS1 coming down the pipeline. Any news on this?

I was surprised to find that there wasn't a mac version as you could play this on the mac using ssp. So why would we not got a mac version I don't know. I hope like you and many others that they do some how give us a mac version.

Because GOG stopped giving a ##### for mac users long time ago.

It has nothing to do with GOG. (unless a they work some SERIOUS magic) This enhanced edition wasn't created from the original source code. It was hacked in after the fact. Without source code, I seriously doubt there is a way to add support for other operating systems.

Edit: They may however, be able to piece together a System Shock Portable style release that runs on DOSBox or the like. It wouldn't be quite the same though. Supposedly this Enhanced Edition is running natively in Windows.

Disagree all you want, but that's not exactly how situations like this work. The game was partially decompiled using OpenWatcom's tools, which was then used as a base to build the Mouselook/Highres patch, and subsequently recompiled. This was no small feat. Tools to do the same either don't exist under OSx (technically it'd be OS 8 or 9 at the time SS1 came out) and the people involved have enough to contend with without attempting to reverse engineer another compiler's output on an entirely different OS processor architecture. What you're asking is frankly ludicrous.

However... The takeaway is you can get 98% of the EE by simply setting up the DOS version on OSx and adding in the Mouselook patch, as I so graciously provided installation instructions for here. Enjoy!

I should note that the hackey wrapper they used for the Enhanced Edition is based on SDL2 and supports OpenGL. Theoretically, it shouldn't take too much work to port to Mac and Linux. Unless there's an obstacle with the MIDI music.

Use this to port the Enhanced Edition to Mac:

http://paulthetall.com/system-shock-enhanced-edition-for-mac/

Works great. :)

So you admit yourself that they were, in fact, not porting anything, just bundling it with a preconfigured emulator. That's not porting, that's emulating.

Get DOSBox or Wine or whatever and configure it to run System Shock. Problem solved. That's how we all did it before GOG did it for us. Good luck! Maybe GOG will preconfigure everything for you later, but until then: Do it yourself and have fun gaming.

Actually, the publishers (Night Dive Studios) said both Mac and Linux versions should be out soon. They replied to a user on Twitter with the following:
"@syke Hopefully have OSX and Linux builds soon!"
My guess is that it will arrive either at the same time, shortly before, or shortly after the release on Steam, which was the case with their release of System Shock 2.

My guess is that porting to Linux would be easier than poring to Mac, so Linux version might actually appear sooner. Mac port would require more efforts as it would involve porting SHLINK from Open Watcom, which is incapable of producing OS X binaries, to some other compiler, such as GCC or Clang. Since neither of these compilers support Watcom's calling convention for passing arguments in CPU registers, some additional work has to be done to ensure compatibility between the game's code and SHLINK's code.

System Shock Mac was actually released in the 90's, but apparently hasn't worked properly since OSX arrived, so a long time ago. It's PowerPC based if I recall. It was also graphically enhanced from the MS-DOS version on PC. I'd love to see GOG get their hands on this one and see if they can use those assets.

Even if NightDive releases Mac and Linux versions of SS, I am sure they will be DOSBox and Wine-based, so why wait for them? Both the Classic and Enhanced versions run well on my MBP (with DOSBox and Wineskin, respectively).

System Shock Enhanced Edition work nice with wineskin (engine: WS9Wine1.6X, wrapper: Wineskin-2.6.1) (tested on Mac OS X 10.6.8 (macbook with intel GMA X3100).

There really needs to be a mac version. There was a mac version when the game came out years ago and many of us don't like running games in Wine or other wrappers. I really prefer a native version. Honestly, GOG needs to support Mac even more than they do, but I appreciate what they've done so far. There are plenty of games that had Mac versions in original release that I will only buy if GOG releases a Mac version. This game is one of them. Release a Mac compatible version and you'll have my $10.