I have windows.. but love Mac games...
How To Play Mac Games On Windows And Vice-versa

Mighty Mike... Formerly known as Power pete.. An awesome game I played waaaay back when and would love to play now. Any help would be awesome... It's Mac only that I've seen and I have a Windows XP

-Dreas

I haven't YET tried installing DOOM or Warcraft on my Mac 10.4 Tiger (I still don't know if it's compatible with my OS version). I'm using XP SP2 and Mac on my computer.
Really, 'heavy' games are just so smooth on Windows OSes... though I haven't tried it on Mac. I'm just in to 2D games (in my Mac), which are compatible of course. But with my XP, I play Crysis, STALKER, and DOOM 3.
Why play it on your Mac? Be contented with Windows if you have it...

hello,

im a Mac user, with a huge collection of Mac's

ok, when it comes to play Mac games on a PC
there are few solutions:

if those games are old - for Mac OS 9 and under - you could try
SheepShaver (for PPC only games) - the PowerPC architecture emulator, although its performance and stability isn't that good...
BasiliskII (for 68k only games) - the 68k architecture emulator, quite fast and stable

although, you will need ROM files to run each of these. to extract a 68k ROM, you will need a 68k Mac, same with PPC one.

if those games are new, or just newer - depends... If theyre designer to work with Mac OS X and PPC CPU only - there is no bigger point emulating such mac... the performance would be drastical. but if you're interested in emulating PPC Mac OS X - you should take a look at PearPC.

but if those games are designed to work with Intel CPU - and if there are no PC versions (^^) - you could try installing an intel version of Mac OS X 'half-natively' using special patches on your PC. of course if you've got a suitable computer (a fast CPU with SSE2/3 support, etc) -- but this solution is illegal! you can run Apple's operation systems only on Apple's hardware without violating the EULA!

anyway - mostly, its pointless to play games using an emulator, just due to performance which really wont be pleasing

when it comes to play PC games on a Mac
and you've got a PPC Mac - dont even dream of running it... as long as its a Windows game, because you could run some old DOS games using eg. DOSBox

but if you've got an Intel Mac, then the best solution is just installing Windows using Boot Camp, because gaming using any emulation / virtualization software is mostly pointless (of course due to horrible performance or incompatibility).

hope that helps,
and sorry if i repeated the previous posters

kaziorvb

This post has been edited by kaziorvb: Mar 16 2008, 03:34 PM

Hello,

I have a Mac game, but no Mac, and I have no money for a Mac ;-(. However, I heard from CNET of a program that runs Mac programs on Windows. I was wondering if there is such a program and where can I get it? I REALLY want to play this game, and there are no versions for it on Windows.

Sn140

-question by supernerd140

Just a thought...
How To Play Mac Games On Windows And Vice-versa

Replying to nhlgoalie2003 I was thinking. If you installed Windows XP through Bootcamp, couldn't you install the corresponding drivers for DirectX on your Windows partition?
Or is the problem with the hardware?

BootCamp
How To Play Mac Games On Windows And Vice-versa

Replying to xboxrulz

Running Windows XP (via BootCamp) on an intel-based 3.0ghz iMac with the nVidia geforce video card, what games could you get away with playing?

I ask because I am trying to decide between a pc and a mac but want to be able to play new games like 3d first person shooters and rpgs without them being slow.

-reply by t-man

Replying to abhiram
Vmware works perfect for me.

-reply by Sir Vilanova

Is the power pc program going to slow down my processor too much if im trying to run a video game? this is my first mac and im more pc oriented. im totally not im my realm here.

iGuest, you can play any games your graphics card could support in Boot Camp since it's just a dual booting utility. It will NOT slow down your machine since your system is running at native speed.

As for War'ru, how old is your Mac/what Mac do you have? You haven't specified.

xboxrulz