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ZildjianKX
Sep 28, 2006, 12:16 PM
If anyone remembers, in October of 2005 Feral announced a Mac version of Black & White 2.

http://www.feral.co.uk/?section=news&id=187&language=english

I emailed them about this and also asked about Black & White 1's Intel compatibility, and this is what they had to say (I hope they don't mind me quoting them):

Black and White 2 is still in the very early stages, so we don't have much information to give you. We haven't scrapped the game, but it's probably going to be a fairly long time before it's released.

Black and White 1 will work on an Intel Mac, and will be perfectly playable provided you're using a fast machine. You should look at the system requirements listed and then take into account that B&W1 is not a Universal Application; that is, it wasn't written for Intel Macs and hasn't been patched to be fully compatible yet. B&W1 has low requirements though, and so a decent iMac, MacBook Pro or Mac Pro will run it at a good speed.

It should be noted that we will not provide full support in the event of an issue caused by the fact that you're running the game on an Intel Mac, although we will give full support for any normal problems. We are not currently aware of any Intel-specific problems.

Black and White has a fairly good chance of being patched to a Universal Application in the future, although we don't know when this might be as we have yet to decide which games will or will not receive patches.



Sdashiki
Sep 28, 2006, 02:33 PM
****** YOU Feral and Peter Molyneaux!

sigh, another mac game that will be released when hell freezes over.

ive been waiting since B/W 1 came to the mac (forever AFTER the PC release) for B/W 2, and it was released "a long time ago", and Feral is still "a long time" away? Gimme a break.

/rant

ZildjianKX
Sep 28, 2006, 03:21 PM
****** YOU Feral and Peter Molyneaux!

sigh, another mac game that will be released when hell freezes over.

ive been waiting since B/W 1 came to the mac (forever AFTER the PC release) for B/W 2, and it was released "a long time ago", and Feral is still "a long time" away? Gimme a break.

/rant

I agree with you, I also agree we'll never see a UB version of the first B&W. They aren't going to make any money off a 6 year old game, so they're not going to put the dev time into it.

harveypooka
Sep 29, 2006, 05:48 AM
I agree with you, I also agree we'll never see a UB version of the first B&W. They aren't going to make any money off a 6 year old game, so they're not going to put the dev time into it.

Your pessimism stuns me! :p