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TransGaming Launches Mac Game Portal

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the cynics-of-the-world-unite dept.

Gamasutra is reporting that TransGaming, maker of Cedega, has announced the launch of the new Mac video game distribution portal, "GameTree." "GameTree Online hopes to replicate digital distribution offerings for Windows-based PC, enabling consumers to purchase and download Mac games, read gaming news, participate in promotional opportunities, and write game reviews. TransGaming plans to continually add new titles from a mix of genres to its online portal."

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  1. Re:Yet another "Fuck You" to PPC by anti-human+1 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Don't get me wrong, I can out-old-Mac you (450 mhz G3![overclocked]), but you can't expect anyone to support a dead desktop processor architecture. With a PPC Mac, you're just as stuck not being able to play windows games as you ever were. Luckily, there have been great games for the Mac, (Escape Velocity and Marathon, to name a few). I'm going to guess you already know this.

  2. Link to the actual portal by amaupin · · Score: 2, Informative

    Here's the link to the actual portal. (Annoyingly not included in the summary OR the Gamasutra hosted press release.)

    Looks like yet another portal attempting to bank in with the same games already hosted on existing portals like Big Fish Games and Game Socks...

    The more the merrier, I guess.

  3. Re:Yet another "Fuck You" to PPC by vux984 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually, if a game is recompiled against winelib, it can run on any CPU architecture winelib will run on. That includes PPC. It'd become a Mac-native game that has an internal implementation of Win32 and DirectX.

    That's a pretty BIG if.

    However, unlike Wine itself, TransGaming's fork doesn't support PPC.

    PPC hasn't been used in a mainstream desktop, not even an Apple one, for a couple years now. What would be the point of supporting a platform that is too slow to run the games coming down the pipe, even if they were running natively? Transgaming is a business, not a labour of love.

  4. Re:To bad that macs don't have good hardware for g by snuf23 · · Score: 2, Informative

    The bigger down side is no upgradeable video card in an iMac. Also you have buy the top of the line iMac in order to get a decent video card. The Radeon 2600 Pro gets beaten all over the map by a mid range card like an 8800GTS (about $200).
    It's an OK chip but Conan will look a lot better on a nicer card.

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