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Posted October 18, 2012
It's official! GOG.com supports Mac OS X.

We're bringing a part of our massive catalog of all-time classics to Mac, starting with an impressive 50 titles for Mac gamers to play and enjoy. 28 of the 50 titles, the best games in history, including , [url=https://secure.gog.com/en/gamecard/ultima_456]Ultima series, or Wing Commander, will be playable on the Mac OS X for the first time ever--exclusively on GOG.com. The complete line-up reflects the diversity of available games unmatched by other distributors: classics like Simcity 2000, Crusader: No Remorse, Little Big Adventure, Theme Hospital mix with Anomaly Warzone Earth, Tiny & Big: Grandpa’s Leftovers, , and [url=http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/the_witcher_2]The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings. Speaking of monster-hunter Geralt and The Witcher 2, the Enhanced Edition of this award-winning mature fantasy RPG was released on Mac just today and is available on GOG.com with a 25% discount (that's only $22.24) for the next 48 hours.

Weeklong Promo: Mac & PC Essentials
We have also prepared a set of specially selected games from various genres that will be available 50% off for the next week: The Witcher Enhanced Edition, Crusader: No Remorse, Theme Hospital, Little Big Adventure, Postal Classic and Uncut, and Simcity 2000 are all available for 50% off--that's as little as $2.99 for unforgettable classics. This promo ends Thursday, October 25 at 6:15 PM GMT. However, The Witcher Enhanced Edition will be available for 50% off only until Saturday, October 20 at 6:45 PM GMT.

Remember, the 50 is just the beginning--we promise to release more amazing games on Mac in the near future. What titles? To find out and play even more best games in history check our website regularly, become a fan on , follow us on [url=https://twitter.com/GOGcom]Twitter, or give us a nice +1 in Google+.
Posted October 18, 2012
Great news! No more playing with WINE settings or enduring virtual machines for the available games. This certainly makes the GOG catalogue much more appealing.
Posted October 18, 2012
Any chance the old D&D games (Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale, Neverwinter Nights) will be coming for mac anytime soon? I own them all for PC already but primarily play games on my macbook and would happily but them again (especially in some kind of bundle). Thanks!!
Posted October 18, 2012
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mondo84: One you go Mac, you switch to Linux!
Fix'd :P....Sorry couldn't help myself. Tee hee hee...:D
Posted October 18, 2012
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DashiellFarewell: Any chance the old D&D games (Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale, Neverwinter Nights) will be coming for mac anytime soon? I own them all for PC already but primarily play games on my macbook and would happily but them again (especially in some kind of bundle). Thanks!!
If you don't want to wait for official support, Rampancy notes that he's gotten those games working on the Mac. I suspect it will be awhile for official GOG support of those types of games because they are Windows games which would require WINE rather than DOSBox. However, you don't have to wait for GOG to support those games on the Mac officially. Porting a game yourself can sometimes be tricky, but sometimes it is really a breeze to do - as in practically no harder than installing the game. If you are interested check out:

http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/gog_games_on_mac_os_x_a_how_to/page1

Don't be discouraged by amount of text, Rampancy is just giving lots of different options and techniques as well as the various sub-options. For some Windows/DOS games the porting process is fairly straightforward.
Posted October 18, 2012
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xyem: +1271 Add Mac OS X versions of games +7084 Add Linux versions of games
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tarasis: I understand your point, however how much engineering effort is required? Which distro do you support? Which desktop enviroment? The thing with the Mac (and iOS for that matter) is that there is a relatively limited set of machines and hardware to test against. Compared to Linux which generally runs on custom built hardware with a wide array of graphics and sound chips. (or Android which has a shed load of variants in terms of hardware and os versions)
They could support Ubuntu and maybe they can open source the installers (most times are dosbox configurations).

I don't know how that could go bad (or aginst) gog interests. Linux users like to form communities and work with them.
Posted October 18, 2012
That's nice news for Mac owners.

I guess I've never understood gamers that own Macs though? Many of the games released are not available for Mac and, what are are usually a lot more expensive.

Nice to see GOG letting Mac owners at least get access to some older games.
Posted October 18, 2012
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xyem: there are 4.5 times as many people here wanting Linux. I'm also saying that it is a little odd that ~1300 people get a years worth of development time when ~7000 people can't get few commands run (if GOG gave me permission I'd have tar.gz's ready for upload by tomorrow), even though it would have also benefited those ~1300 people. The cost/payoff for what they have done seems to be extremely unfavourable. Spend a year making ~1300 people happier.. or spend a week making ~8,300 people happier.
Yes, with Mac, GOG want the money from the richer GOG costumers (used to pay more for the 'hype'), against the PC ones.
GOG do the reverse of DotEmu, which went selling DRM free pc games too after selling console ones.
Post edited October 18, 2012 by ERISS
Posted October 18, 2012
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mondo84: One you go Mac, you switch to Linux!
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Theta_Sigma: Fix'd :P....Sorry couldn't help myself. Tee hee hee...:D
Oh you!
Posted October 18, 2012
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crazy_dave: If you are interested check out: http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/gog_games_on_mac_os_x_a_how_to/page1 Don't be discouraged by amount of text, Rampancy is just giving lots of different options and techniques as well as the various sub-options. For some Windows/DOS games the porting process is fairly straightforward.
I'll add that if you want a "zero conf" solution, Icewind Dale and Baldur's Gate II install just fine out of the box on WINE; though you are locked at 1024 x 768 maximum. Higher resolutions as well as many other gameplay tweaks and bugfixes can be had through fan patches.
Posted October 18, 2012
Thanks a lot for supporting Mac!

While I play 95%of my games on Windows anyway this is very convenient.

I hope the Linux users will get the love, too. soon!
The more players on GOG the better for everybody!



PS: maybe have a chat with Steam as to which Linux Distro is the best, out of the lot.
Posted October 19, 2012
Thanks!! Now I can finally remove that Boot Camp partition and be rid of Faildows!
Posted October 19, 2012
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xyem: +1271 Add Mac OS X versions of games +7084 Add Linux versions of games
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johndrinkwater: Came here to suggest the same thing, such a shame we Linux users get ignored…
And there's almost 30k people who are voting for System Shock 2.... I understand your disappointment - I was wishing there would be Linux support and Mac OS support, but I'm sure that Linux will be supported by GOG and game developers very soon. For so maaaaaany years there has been monopoly created by Micro$oft, but times are finally slowly changing. I remember that 10-15 years ago none main publisher was even thinking of making games for Windows and Linux, but nowadays in the age of Kickstarter and thanks to Linux community the new good games (i.e. Wasteland 2 and Project Eternity) will run on Linux. So times are slowly changing and hopefully gog will make soon a new conference and will announce support for Linux!!
Posted October 19, 2012
While I don't have a Mac, I think this is great news. GOG needs to keep growing and getting to be an even greater, successful competition to DRM-based services like Steam. If they and we as a customer base can prove the profitability of this concept, bigger publishers may - hopefully - change their course on more and more intrusive DRMs with new releases as well.
Posted October 19, 2012
Well, this was a massive disappointment. With GOG's overhyping it again, I was sincerely expecting some kind of change that would massively affect how we use GOG. Instead, we get something that affects barely 10% of the users here. Don't get me wrong - I'm glad for the Mac users here - but the fact of the matter is that this is GOG making another mountain out of a molehill, especially as Mac users have been using workarounds with Wine and Boxer for ages now.

The last time GOG actually delivered on the hype was when EA came to the platform. Since then, every "major" announcement has been a damp squib.

And the great irony? The new free game - Warsow - was predominantly a Linux stronghold until now, only really played by Linux gamers.
Post edited October 19, 2012 by jamyskis
Posted October 19, 2012
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isisprince: I guess this is good for the health of the business. I was hoping something that would be exciting for everyone. Who owns a Mac nowadays, anyways? People who think style over computing is cool? I guess that sounds flamey. Just disappointed.
Let's see.. people who prefer a smooth and consistent GUI, the power of Unix and usually more-polished apps than their Windows/Linux counterparts, all without having to worry about drivers, distros, restarts, active OS maintenance or malware! All that in hardware that doesn't look ugly or feel cheap.

It's same reason people buy Ferraris and Porches, if you insist on looking at it that way.

I'm guessing you're being pouty just because they didn't make a Linux announcement instead (which has lower market share than Mac OS X.)
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FraterPerdurabo: I'm getting an iPad tonight, can any of these be made to work on iOS?
You COULD try VNC'ing into your Mac desktop and sharing its screen if you were so inclined :P but if you got an iPad you probably wouldn't have time for gaming on the Mac anyway! The other alternative would be jailbreaking and see if there's any emulators, but playing DOS games with the onscreen keyboard won't be worth it IMO.
Post edited October 19, 2012 by 1UP
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