Darling_Jimmy: You bet I'm using Boxer. The best part is, since it basically just skins Finder, I can put anything on those shelves (not only DOS games.)
To extract GOG games, I made a simple application with Platypus (http://www.sveinbjorn.org/platypus) that runs the installer and spits the files onto my desktop.

mogamer: This thread brings to light something I've noticed about Mac users/lovers. They can't take a joke! Heavy duty Windows fans can make jokes all day about MS or Windows. But say something that's only a little bit bad or funny about Apple or Macs, then all hell breaks loose.
Another thing I just don't understand is that many Mac users feel that they are anti-establishment. Yet they are fans of a company that uses some of the worst anti-consumer measures for their products.

TheMadSpin: On another note, I'm thrilled because of Telltale games recent announcement to support Macs. They released Tales from Monkey Island today and posted a little note to fans:
http://www.telltalegames.com/macgames
Seems like an appropriate thing to mention.

Miaghstir: Thanks for the heads-up, always nice to see more companies developing for the smaller platform.

cogadh: Yet they still leave out Linux, which is really silly when you consider MacOS is based on BSD and is already (mostly) Linux compatible. It wouldn't take to much to port a game to Mac in a way that would make it also compatible with Linux, but they always choose not to do that.

Darling_Jimmy: http://www.transgaming.com/business/cedega/6.0/
You're welcome.

cogadh: No thank you.
Cedega is a blight on Linux. They represent everything that is wrong with the closed source environment and are responsible for one of the hardest lessons the open source community ever had to learn. They took what was the core of Wine and bastardized it into a closed source product without contributing anything of significance back to the Wine source tree. They continue to take code from the Wine base today whenever it benefits them but still barely contribute back to the project that made them a viable product. They were able to do this because of a flaw in Wine's old MIT license, which is one of the factors that led to Wine getting GPL'd (prevents that from ever happening again). On top of that, they charge a subscription fee for their product. I am personally morally opposed to "subscribing" to software; I don't mind paying for a new version when it is released, but to pay a subscription fee just to have access to minor revs and bug fixes? That's just offensive. If I'm going to pay for a Windows compatibility product on Linux, I'll go with CrossOver from Codeweavers. At least that product completely supports Wine development (financially and with code), as it should since it is completely based on Wine.
BTW - That was a woefully out of date article, Cedega is up to version 7.3 now:
http://www.cedega.com/

Darling_Jimmy: Woosh.
The point was that these Mac ports are Windows games in Cider wrappers. Essentially, Cedega for OS X.

cogadh: That article makes absolutely no mention of Cider or the fact that it is used as workaround for porting games to Mac. Even so, that still doesn't get these games on Linux. If it did, I'd rather they did actual ports of the games and not given any more money to Transgaming, or, if they are going to be lazy about ports, they could just as easily do a WineLib port instead.

Darling_Jimmy: I don't know how you missed it again. Short of drawing a diagram, here is one last attempt to explain. You said this: "It wouldn't take to much to port a game to Mac in a way that would make it also compatible with Linux."
And I am telling you that Cedega is how you would 'port' Windows games to Linux in the same way publishers 'port' Windows games to OS X with Cider.
Once again, you said this: "It wouldn't take to much to port a game to Mac in a way that would make it also compatible with Linux."
And I am telling you that Cedega is the Linux product equatable to Cider.
Once again, you said this: "It wouldn't take to much to port a game to Mac in a way that would make it also compatible with Linux."
And I am telling you "Cider ≈ Cedega."

Darling_Jimmy: To extract GOG games, I made a simple application with Platypus (http://www.sveinbjorn.org/platypus) that runs the installer and spits the files onto my desktop.

cogadh: Yet they still leave out Linux, which is really silly when you consider MacOS is based on BSD and is already (mostly) Linux compatible. It wouldn't take to much to port a game to Mac in a way that would make it also compatible with Linux, but they always choose not to do that.