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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:To bad that macs don't have good hardware for g by Phrogman · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Oh, I'm sorry, I guess I should stop playing PC games on my Imac dual-booted to XP using Bootcamp then.

    Its not the best platform for playing games, but its let me play Starwars Galaxies, City of Heroes, Age of Conan and Pirates of the Burning Sea effectively enough, some of them even run quite well.

    Now I would prefer to have native OS/X versions of these games of course, but the Imac seems to run XP just fine in the meantime. The only downside is that Apple is very slow to update their drivers for XP under bootcamp so some games suffer when the publisher moves to the latest driver and Apple hasn't played catch up yet.

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  2. Re:Yet another "Fuck You" to PPC by mrbluze · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And of course, it's actually just Intel-based Macs. So my two-year-old G5 is completely overlooked yet again. I hear ya. I got a macbook last year and only started to follow the mac forums then. The sting in Apple's tail is noticeable and, though they offer a better product overall than Microsoft, they make an even worse mother-in-law than M$.
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  3. Re:Yet another "Fuck You" to PPC by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    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.

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

  4. Re:Yet another "Fuck You" to PPC by nawcom · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Team Fortress 2 is Gold rated and Half-Life 2 is Platinum rated (higher than gold) So running them on OS X shouldn't be a challenge. I might test them out on cider one of these days. The only issue is that (at least for cedega) transgaming uses an older wine build for cedega; i have no clue what build they use for cider.

  5. Re:Finally! by nawcom · · Score: 1, Interesting

    heh, I found out that WoW seems to run a lot better in Mac OS X than in Windows XP. (7600gt) I don't know if it's the amount of resources being used or what, but I definitely boot up OS X to play that game. (FYI this is on a homemade AMD system + purchased copy of Leopard)

  6. Re:To bad that macs don't have good hardware for g by Jorophose · · Score: 2, Interesting

    iMac: ATI HD2400, 26000, or nV 8800GS
    Except for the 8800GS, these are definately not "gaming" video cards.

    HD3650 would be good if they had them, and even then it'd play like crap on the iMac's resolutions. Especially considering they insist to put them with such big monitors.

    And aren't these mobile cards?

    Mac Pro: ATI HD2600XT
    Definately not a good card, wasn't this squished in between the 8600GT and HD3650 in terms of age with the performance of a X1650 on a smaller die?

    And you're paying a pretty premium for that mac pro, what is it now, 4,000$?

    MacBook: Ok, crap integrated on this one
    And sadly IIRC macbook is the better selling 'book.

    MB Pro: nV 8600GT
    Isn't this the 8600GT-M? There is a small but fair difference between them... And the 8600GT has always been an underwhelmer; it's only worth the 80$ they're starting to sell them that... With the amount of money they charge for a MBP, this feels very underwhelming, but yeah it's better than nothing.

    It's incredibly sad that the latest and greatest Apple can muster will cost you in the thousands and will come with a crippled processor & RAM.