Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 12th Jun 2007 19:36 UTC, submitted by atezun
Despite what many (including myself) thought when EA announced they would support the Mac platform, the games EA will release are actually not native ports - instead, they will use Transgaming's Cider engine, a Wine-like wrapper for running Windows games on Intel Macs. This news was found in a Transgaming press release. Apart from the fact that this might negatively affect performance, it also means PowerPC Macs will not be able to play these games.
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RE: this might negatively affect performance
by Thom_Holwerda on Tue 12th Jun 2007 20:15
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RE: this might negatively affect performance
by evangs on Wed 13th Jun 2007 07:29
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From what I gather, when you can get Wine to run Windows apps there is barely any slowdown. In fact, the Transgaming boards are full of people who say that running games under Wine (Cedega) is better than under Windows.
Unless they're all lying or suffering from some sort of RDF, having Cider on the Mac can only be a good thing. More games on the Mac means everybody wins.
RE[2]: this might negatively affect performance
by PJBonoVox on Wed 13th Jun 2007 09:12
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Might...but no one knows. This kind of speculation is very premature.