Half-Life 2 on Intel Macs
If you've sated your Tetris lust through Quinn and you're looking for something a little meatier to play, you might want to check out this kludge a CodeWeavers forumite has used to get Half-Life 2 running on an Intel Mac.Armed with the beta of CrossOver Mac, user JustinD downloaded Gordon Freeman's alien-blasting adventure through Valve's Steam service and proceeded to shoehorn it onto his MacBook. It isn't pretty since you can't use anti-aliasing or anisotropic filtering, and there's pop-in, missing video, and other surprises, but, hey, it's Half-Life 2 on your MacBook.
I don't have an Intel Mac lying around to try this out, so hit the comments if you get it working.
[via Joystiq]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
salvo said 5:36PM on 10-04-2006
Cool, although I am tempted to try it out, why don't more game design companies start making games that Mac users will play, we need a bigger selection that whats already out there - its an untaped market :)
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Andi said 5:50PM on 10-04-2006
O it looks like the gaming industry might be looking more hopeful on coming over the the mac. It is about time the PC has had the majority of the gaming industry market shar, why can the mac not have a good chunk of this. Come on games developers and get on the macs!
I dont actually own a mac yet as i do alot of gaming on the old PC but i would love a mac.
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dwanky said 5:42PM on 10-04-2006
You can also intals Windows with Bootcamp on your Mac Intel and plys the PC version...
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Keith said 5:49PM on 10-04-2006
I just want them to fix all the bugs with Counter-Strike 1.6 and Day of Defeat in Steam :/
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Thayne Miller said 6:29PM on 10-04-2006
with my recent 120GB harddrive upgrade, I am looking forward to dumping a few spare gigs to something like this. I can't wait to try it out and give my 2GB of dual-channel ram a run for its money on my macbook.
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Daniel said 7:15PM on 10-04-2006
I haven't actually tried this solution, but most others along these lines end up being more time-consuming than simply rebooting into Windows. You would, after all, have to close out all of your applications for optimal performance anyway. And booting into OS X from XP is much quicker than booting from OS X to XP. On my new Intel Mac it takes under 15 seconds to start OS X.
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Scott F said 7:38PM on 10-04-2006
STOP RUNNING THE GM AD WITH THE JUMPING GIRL!
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jason said 9:21PM on 10-04-2006
This was actually the final test in my complete obsession with getting rid of my PC's. I installed Bootcamp just to put half-life 2 on it. It runs better than it does on my "gaming" pc. It's amazing. World of Warcraft runs great on the OSX side, haven't tried it on the Windows side. But the MacBook Pro can totally be a gaming computer.
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Dry County said 9:55PM on 10-04-2006
I just found this amazing site full of old Apple II-era games:
http://www.virtualapple.org
...only problem is that it runs on IE6 on WINDOWS!?!! (How screwy is that??)
However, if you download the crossover beta it works with IE6 just fine. Anyone remember Oregon Trail? How about Wizardry??
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Mark D. said 10:17PM on 10-04-2006
Jason:
WoW does run better in XP on the MBP, but even in OS X it beats my desktop's preformance. Also Virtue makes it easy to game and do other stuff at the same time.
Of course I have an obsession with collecting PCs and other computers so when I tried it it was more to see if I could finally play games somewhere other than my desk. The answer: yes, yes I can. It squarely beats the pants off the old laptop's radeon 7000, heck, even with the limitations and tricks needed to run in crossover it probably still beats it.
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AdQuick said 8:50AM on 10-05-2006
This sounds great, i'm very tempted to try this out.
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