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Gaming on the macs with intel processors.

haye321 Total Posts: 312 Joined 2005-10-21	Posted: 03 November 2005 09:42 PM Me and my mac obsessed friend were having an argument about the intel chips in the new macs. He said that with the intel chips you would be able to play games for windows on the mac. I don’t think that this is possible. What do you say?

Frozonecold Total Posts: 1574 Joined 2005-09-12	Posted: 03 November 2005 10:40 PM haye321 - Nov 03, 2005 09:42pm Me and my mac obsessed friend were having an argument about the intel chips in the new macs. He said that with the intel chips you would be able to play games for windows on the mac. I don’t think that this is possible. What do you say? You know what I say, but allow me to clarify, I know it is possible, but only with the use of a virtual machine.

haye321 Total Posts: 312 Joined 2005-10-21	Posted: 03 November 2005 10:52 PM Yes I know what you say but I would like to hear someone elses opinion.

Buzz Bumble Total Posts: 401 Joined 2005-09-16	Posted: 04 November 2005 02:15 AM Basically there’s three options, and the one (or more likely a mixture) we end up with remains to be seen. If Microsoft or some hacker can get Windows to run on an Intel Mac (ie. write the extra bits needed to handle Apple hardware), then the Intel Macs will be able to boot Windows just like any other PC and many games should work ... as long as they don’t bang directly on the hardware to improve performance. This could be pretty bad for the Mac games industry. The Intel Macs may well make it easier to port games since the code itself doesn’t have to be redone, again only any hardware problems would need to be fixed. This could mean a faster release of the Mac version instead of the long wait we often have now. Similar to this is the fact that Microsoft should be able to make Virtual PC run faster than it does at the moment. It still won’t be full speed of a Windows PC, but should be much closer than it is now and make newer games more playable ... but only if they also fix Virtual PC to be able to use the Mac’s 3D graphics card / chips (which it currently doesn’t).

Frozonecold Total Posts: 1574 Joined 2005-09-12	Posted: 07 November 2005 01:44 PM Buzz Bumble - Nov 04, 2005 02:15am Similar to this is the fact that Microsoft should be able to make Virtual PC run faster than it does at the moment. It still won’t be full speed of a Windows PC, but should be much closer than it is now and make newer games more playable ... but only if they also fix Virtual PC to be able to use the Mac’s 3D graphics card / chips (which it currently doesn’t). About using Virtual Machines, you don’t have to use microsoft’s Virtual PC, other companies make Virtual Machines for linux, and they will probably make one for mac too.