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OS X Upcoming 2013 Mac Games to Look Forward to
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Anyone else a fan of the Heroes of Might and Magic series? I like the turn based games. I have 5 on my computer (3 was my faorite)... was bummed that they released 6 on PCs but have no intention of a mac version. I am still debating whether its worth setting up a dual boot option to play that. Seems like buying a crap $300 pc laptop would be as easy and cheap (wih buying windows os and all that) even just for using it for a game or two.
Washac
macrumors 68030
There you go, run it in a wrapper on your Mac.
http://portingteam.com/files/file/1270-might-and-magic-6/
blesscheese
macrumors 6502a
1. If they are DOS games, and you have all the disks/cd's, whatever, try Boxer. Works like a charm on old DOS games.
2. If they are Windows 95/98/2000/XP games (or even Win7), try WINE. The learning curve for installing games is a little steep, but there are plenty of videos & tutorials available, and if first you don't succeed...try again. Also, as noted above, the Porting Team has ports for various games, which are WINE "bottles" pre-formed.
3. If you would like to pay $$ (a small amount), you can try CrossOver from CodeWeavers. It handles stuff like the WINE set-up more automagically, but isn't perfect. There are also other, cheaper WINE set-up apps on the App store that handle WINE set-up in a more user-friendly way, but they aren't necessary.
HTH!
Planetary Annihilation (Kickstarter) is looking sweet! The plan is for PC/Mac/Linux release and cross-platform multi-player. Summer 2013 release... if all goes according to schedule.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhEYvOYceNs&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhEYvOYceNs&feature=player_embedded
This. PA looks really good, I've been following development for while now. I think the last webcast gave a december release date, with alpha and beta leading up too it.
Well... that is actually an older related series.... just called Might and Magic. The one i'm referring to is Heroes of Might and Magic.... its more recent and modern. See here:
http://might-and-magic.ubi.com/heroes-6/en-us/home/index.aspx
So.. anyone think this would work with Wine? It says it requires XP or 7.... I downloaded and ran wine and winebottler... not many games presets.... so it makes me think games are harder to do this with (or less people interested in doing it)..
Dirtyharry50
macrumors 68000
For a task like this (for any Wine porting) I would highly recommend Wineskin. Just Google for it and also for this: "WineHQ AppDB" which is a database that often offers helpful information about results in testing and also getting various games to work with Wine. This info can be invaluable when using Wineskin to port a game successfully.
I took a few minutes to check into Heroes VI but the results were old and the Wine versions tested were significantly out of date. So unfortunately, in this particular case it was hard to find much useful information beyond that it seemed to "mostly" work but with some issues. Those things may or may not be a problem anymore as Wine is constantly updated.
You might want to use Wineskin with the lastest engine (version of Wine) which is explained in the docs for Wineskin. Honestly it is not all that complicated. I had the basics of using it under control in an afternoon of tinkering with it and went on to port a number of games successfully, along with AppDB's help for info about each one.
All that said, I'd caution having lowered expectations for this particular game even as I hope that you make out well. If you already own it, try it and see and hopefully it will wind up being worth the time spent. If nothing else, you'll learn a lot that can be quite handy in the future with other games. Some stuff runs beautifully with Wineskin's help.
I took a few minutes to check into Heroes VI but the results were old and the Wine versions tested were significantly out of date. So unfortunately, in this particular case it was hard to find much useful information beyond that it seemed to "mostly" work but with some issues. Those things may or may not be a problem anymore as Wine is constantly updated.
You might want to use Wineskin with the lastest engine (version of Wine) which is explained in the docs for Wineskin. Honestly it is not all that complicated. I had the basics of using it under control in an afternoon of tinkering with it and went on to port a number of games successfully, along with AppDB's help for info about each one.
All that said, I'd caution having lowered expectations for this particular game even as I hope that you make out well. If you already own it, try it and see and hopefully it will wind up being worth the time spent. If nothing else, you'll learn a lot that can be quite handy in the future with other games. Some stuff runs beautifully with Wineskin's help.
Washac
macrumors 68030
Thanks for the info.. I will look into those and see what I can figure out...
OH. MAH. GAWD.
Someone is actually building a proper sequel to TA? And they're going to try and get Jeremy Soule onboard?
Holy. ****ing. ****.
-SC
