Blutzeit Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 I'm running CMx1 (CMBO demo so far) in Paralells on my MacBook Pro and it works pretty much ok. Only problem is that it insist on running it in a 640x480 window. It's not possible to switch this from inside the application because there's no Direct3D available. I tried to modify the preference file by replacing the numbers 640 and 480 (0280 01E0) with 1280 and 1024 (0500 0400), but I can't get it to accept that. Does anyone know if there's a workaround to get it working with a larger screen? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwolf Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 You use software 3D mode, which is limited to 640x480. That always worked in the classic emulation box. In their "wisdom" BFC removed software 3D mode from CMBB and CMAK, so no go there. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blutzeit Posted January 24, 2007 Author Share Posted January 24, 2007 Bah, too bad, I bet my new mac would run faster in full screen software emulation mode than my old pc would. But thanks for the info anyways. A related Q: Now that it's limited to 640x480, can CMBO be made to run in a window instead of "full screen"? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwolf Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 Originally posted by Blutzeit: A related Q: Now that it's limited to 640x480, can CMBO be made to run in a window instead of "full screen"? It did when I ran it on FreeBSD in VMware. But in that case the virtual machine enforces the window mode, the application thinks it is in full screen mode. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MouseBert Posted January 27, 2007 Share Posted January 27, 2007 Has anyone here tried one of the WINE projects to run Windows CM appls on a Intel based Macs under MacOS X? If so, how well does it work, or not work? http://www.codeweavers.com/products/download_trial_macosx/ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wicky Posted January 27, 2007 Share Posted January 27, 2007 Originally posted January 10, 2007 by jeffsmith: I tried Crossover with CMAK Just before I downloaded BootCamp and installed XP on my Intel iMac 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwolf Posted January 28, 2007 Share Posted January 28, 2007 Wine and hence Crossover do not run CMBB and CMAK yet as the video mode probing at program startup fails. Cedega (ex Winex) does work (BFC variant, but with the no-cd patches). I do not know whether they have an Intel-Mac version yet. [ January 27, 2007, 05:39 PM: Message edited by: Redwolf ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blutzeit Posted January 28, 2007 Author Share Posted January 28, 2007 Yup, I can confirm that no version of Wine work (Crossover 6.0, Wine 0.9.30, Darwine 0.9.12). Is there a really a Mac version of Cedega? If you visit Transgaming, they refer you to their Cider product. http://www.transgaming.com/index.php?module=ContentExpress&func=display&ceid=36&meid=#8 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwolf Posted January 28, 2007 Share Posted January 28, 2007 I have no interest in Cedega since the only way to buy it is the insecure Worldpay method, which I won't use unless forced to. Technically, it shouldn't be much of a problem to port a Windows emulator from Unix/Linux to MacOS X. The basic OS is largely compatible and most Unix functionality in OSX comes from FreeBSD, which already runs Wine. You need to either port the 2D graphics stuff from X11 to OSX, or you need to require the user to run X11, which is acceptable. 3D support won't make much trouble since both Unix/Linux and OSX only run OpenGL for 3D hardware. I think that the Wine people with their partners (Codeweavers) will kill Transgaming/Cedega rather sooner than later. Trandgaming/Cedega for now has some critical additional functionality to support more DirectX and more CD copy protection schemes (among other things, they have a real version of Safedisk integrated into their commercial product). But the CD copy protection schemes in particular are less of a problem now since most games, including almost all wargames have an online/download by option. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blutzeit Posted February 1, 2007 Author Share Posted February 1, 2007 Cedega is not an option for Mac, got the following reply from transgaming: Hello, For Intel Mac, we offer Cider. Cider is a product for publishers & developers to aide them in bringing their games over to the Mac in very short times. Cider-powered games should be hitting Mac in the near future. Let us know if you have any other questions or concerns. -- Kevin Ip Quality Assurance and Technical Support www.transgaming.com This means BF is required to port CMx1 themselves using Cider, which seems unlikely. Well, well, we have to stick with BootCamp until Parallels version 3 is released. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GRUMLIN Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 What about installing OS9 on my Macbook pro? Is that a runner - can I do that and only use the OS9 for the CMBB/AK? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwolf Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 OS9 is PowerPC code, even with the BIOS support that the late Powermacs already lacked that won't work. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blutzeit Posted February 3, 2007 Author Share Posted February 3, 2007 Well, I think there are emulators out there that run OS9 (or at least OS8 im sure) on intel macs. But not sure about 3D support in this scenario though. Anyone? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blutzeit Posted February 4, 2007 Author Share Posted February 4, 2007 Found this link on how to run OS9 on intel macs: http://www.uneasysilence.com/archive/2006/08/7352/ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gibsonm Posted February 4, 2007 Share Posted February 4, 2007 GRUMLIN, Why don’t you read the earlier thread where we told you about this already??????? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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