playing old games

[hawkeyefxr]

Just over a year ago i made the transition from a PC to a Mac. I have an Imac running the latest up grade and all is well.........except, i miss one game Soldier of Fortune .
I have a mac version of this but it runs on an older mac version.
What i want to know is, is there an easy way to make this run on my imac.

 

[jerwin]

You could try WINE. But it's not necessarily going to be easy.

https://appdb.winehq.org/objectMana...lse&sClass=version&sTitle=&sReturnTo=&iId=585

 

[hawkeyefxr]

yea i have looked at that and it is not straight forward but i will look again, cheers

 

[QuickstartBridg]

yea i have looked at that and it is not straight forward but i will look again, cheers

You can easily run software in a different Mac or PC operating system using virtual machine software made by Parallels or vmWare installed within the current operating system on your iMac. You just need a disk image of the PC operating system of your choice or the installer for the older Mac operating system to load into your virtual machine. Then load up your game software into the other operating system using the virtual machine.

Brian

 

[Mattww]

Been a while since I tried either game but PC versions of SOF and SOF2 both worked fine in WINE on my Mac when I ran them with a Wineskin wrapper - checkout winehq.org

It does look like you may need an older wine engine (1.7) in the wrapper for these older titles but that is simple to do.

 

[tyche]

There is a commercial version called CrossOver which I use and like. Very easy to get windows software installed. It shows compatibility of that game as 5/5 stars with a note on patch version needed.

 

[QuickstartBridg]

An advantage of Parallels and probably vmWare Fusion is that you can also run older versions of OSX inside your current version. This is helpful if you have legacy Mac software that doesn't run with the current macOS.

 

[thefriendshipmachine]

if you install macOS 10.5 in a virtual machine line parallels, vmware or virtualbox (free) then it will play the mac version of your game. I'm guessing it requires PowerPC. MacOS 10.5 has a translation layer which will allow it to run.