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: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.