Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 12th Jun 2007 19:36 UTC, submitted by atezun
Games 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: wow
by vimh on Tue 12th Jun 2007 20:22 UTC in reply to "wow"
vimh
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2006-02-04

I agree. This is a bit of a disappointing revelation. Though not at all surprising really. The advantage here is that this will allow EA to bring current titles to the Mac market quicker. Hopefully future titles will have native versions.

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RE[2]: wow
by aliquis on Wed 13th Jun 2007 07:25 in reply to "RE: wow"
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2005-07-23

I doubt they will, but Transgaming is very good at DirectX and as long as Apples OpenGL drivers (hopefully Nvidia can help them here) doesn't suck it will probably be very close to a native port in speed anyway.

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