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lock [CLOSED] How to play against Mac Users on Windows?

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12 Jun 2014 15:17 - 14 Sep 2014 16:15 #1
I'd like to be able to play MP with the mac users but I'm on windows. Is there any way for me to do this (such a windows version of crossover)
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12 Jun 2014 16:09 #2
As far as I know (correct me if I'm wrong) there are no (legal) ways to do this..

If there are I, too, would like to know.
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12 Jun 2014 16:29 - 12 Jun 2014 16:33 #3
You could dual-boot your OS with Linux, download the Linux MBG binary, cross over and replace the engine files for Windows MBP 1.50, hack together a MBP boot script, and run that version and play. :P

Any practical way? None that I know of. But that's mostly because Mac users are of a minority when it comes to these things. Nobody wants to do a crossover to Mac for a minority group.

You'd have better luck getting the mac users to use software like WinE to run Windows MBG.
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12 Jun 2014 16:39 #4
You could also use VirtualBox or VMware, but it would be hell slow.
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12 Jun 2014 20:42 - 13 Jun 2014 22:48 #5

StewMan46 wrote: You could also use VirtualBox or VMware, but it would be hell slow.


That's to run windows ON OSX. Not the other way around. It is illegal to possess a OSX virtual machine as it violate's Apple's policy. As an apple developer, I'm telling you shouldn't and can't do it.

Sorry frosty :(

What every mac user in this community who is using an INTEL mac SHOULD DO is either:
A: Buy crossover for $60
B: Download WINE for free

That will emulate MB and MB will have better performance than running it on windows natively (no FPS Cap)

PowerPC users:

[strike]upgrade your computer already, its too old. It should be made illegal to even have one of those still, lol.[/strike]
NO PPC RULES INTEL DROOLS.
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12 Jun 2014 22:06 #6
BTW I have NEVER ran ubuntu on the PPC. Not sure where you keep seeming to get that idea. I'm running Ubuntu off a broken dell laptop.

Besides, not sure how ported some of that stuff is to PPC, wine probably isn't available for it either.
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13 Jun 2014 15:37 #7

promarbler14 wrote: BTW I have NEVER ran ubuntu on the PPC. Not sure where you keep seeming to get that idea. I'm running Ubuntu off a broken dell laptop.

Besides, not sure how ported some of that stuff is to PPC, wine probably isn't available for it either.


Edited my post. Sorry, I thought you were dual booting D:
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