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: Figures
by Karitku on Tue 12th Jun 2007 20:25 UTC in reply to "Figures"
Karitku
Member since:
2006-01-12

Yeah, and whats the point anyway. If you like Mac and you like play games, use bootcamp. Most hardcore gamers aren't Mac users anyway. Whole WWDC stuff has been pure publicity stunts, Safari for Windows was more buggy than Windows ME, iPhone 3rd party support way was lame and Leopard was just same as we seen before. I hope next big event will feature better news, maybe widescreen iPod with something new.

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RE[2]: Figures
by poundsmack on Tue 12th Jun 2007 20:41 in reply to "RE: Figures"
poundsmack Member since:
2005-07-13

the point is that i dont want to have to buy xp/vista for my mac. I bought the mac to get away from windows. not to have windows come to me. especialy in pay form as a game "dependency". i mean thats jsut wrong!

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RE[3]: Figures
by Soulbender on Wed 13th Jun 2007 02:37 in reply to "RE[2]: Figures"
Soulbender Member since:
2005-08-18

"I bought the mac to get away from windows. not to have windows come to me. especialy in pay form as a game "dependency". i mean thats jsut wrong!"

In other news, Nintendo WII games depend on you owning a WII console and PS3 games depend on you owning a PS3.

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RE[3]: Figures
by PJBonoVox on Wed 13th Jun 2007 09:10 in reply to "RE[2]: Figures"
PJBonoVox Member since:
2006-08-14

"I bought the mac to get away from windows"

It's not wrong. You should have thought of that before you went out and blew your cash.

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RE[2]: Figures
by the_thunderbird on Sat 16th Jun 2007 11:07 in reply to "RE: Figures"
the_thunderbird Member since:
2005-08-19

safari for windows is a beta... How many times are people going to slate something like Safari on windows when it is an initial beta? BETA = always have bugs, that's why we developers issue public betas, so people find the bugs and we fix them...

Did you not notice the bug icon on the toolbar? It's for reporting bugs... USE IT.

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