Battlefield 1942 Makes It To The Mac

Tzarius writes "GameSpy has a short article that says Aspyr Media has shipped Battlefield 1942 and the Road to Rome expansion for the Mac [There's more information on system requirements and screenshots on the official Aspyr page for the game.] Surely a little prodding would get them to do that little bit more for Linux?"

Comments

Re:A trend?

[kannibal_klown]

There's a Mac version of UT2004, it came out almost immediately after the Windows version; maybe a day of 2 after.

But it's a seperate DVD that can be found for about $30. My brand-new Powerbook can't play it as well as my year-old Windows laptop, but it's playable. I haven't tried it on a Powermac (or iMac) though, so I can't comment on how it runs there. But it supposedly flies on the G5's (and dual G4's).

I own a Powerbook, but I use my PC for gaming. I only recently converted, so my PC is still modern enough to play any game very well. I make enough that I can support both platforms so long as I don't go for top-of-the-line components. I try to shop smart, and find good deals.

But I'd sort-of like to see Mac's get more gaming attention. Those G5's are sweet rigs, and are just screaming for more games to play.

Hopefully, the tides will turn for Macs and gaming.

Re:Linux is hard to sell games on.

[Mean_Nishka]

I can really see Linux gaming going from something you boot from an existing Linux installation to something more along the lines of liveCD games like we've been seeing trickling out lately.

It'll be kinda neat to return to the days of the Apple II when you'd pop in a disc, boot, and get the game :).

Re:Don't forget

[hambonewilkins]

Oh, yes, because multi-button mouses aren't available for the mac. And you can't use a standard multi-button USB mouse with your mac. Believe me, back in 1999 when I got my B&W g3 and used a Microsoft USB MULTI-BUTTON mouse with it, I almost crapped myself. I somehow beat the odds.

BTW, this means that your joke might have been relevant in 1998. Maybe.

My only question:

[extrarice]

Can the Mac client play against Windows players, or is it Mac-on-Mac only?

Re:Info On Battlefield 1942

[adam.skinner]

I've also been playing this game since the demo. About half of the community has moved to Battlefield Vietnam (as you can see at Gamespy's stat site), but many of these players also play BF1942. The gameplay is very fun, and I remember laughing so much in the beginning when I saw those bodies flying up in the air when hit with a shell from a Chi-ha on Wake Island. The conquest gameplay type is engaging, and there are many community mods, chief among them being a modern desert warfare mod "Desert Combat".

Re:Linux is hard to sell games on.

[Blakey Rat]

No it won't, that's a pain in the ass! How do I get notified of incoming IMs while playing if I have to reboot my computer? How can I use a voice communication software package in the background if I have to reboot my computer? What if I have a SCSI card and it takes like 3 minutes to reboot the damn thing and I have to sit there and wait for it? How do I save my settings, like when I remap the keys? Does it automatically detect the HD, parse the filesystem, and save the settings there? If so, how would it cope with a filesystem it doesn't understand completely (i.e. NTFS.) What if I want to play online, but my network card (say an ethernet->usb adaptor) doesn't have any drivers in your boot CD? Can I add the drivers? Will it detect the drivers on my HD and auto-load them? And if so, how long would that take?

The reason you could put the game on the boot disk in the past is because the OS did not do multitasking. (Also, computers were mostly instant-on, or close to instant-on.) Now that the OS does multitasking, and computers take a little while to boot, using a boot disk for a game is a dumb idea.