Before anyone asks about a Macintosh version

Amadeus · Post by **Amadeus** » Mon Jun 23, 2003 8:10 pm

Before you ask, understand that I shoot Macintosh users on sight.

dont_know_at_all · Post by **dont_know_at_all** » Mon Jun 23, 2003 8:30 pm

In theory, you could run WINE on OS X and get everything running inside the emulation.

Amadeus · Post by **Amadeus** » Mon Jun 23, 2003 9:03 pm

But..would EQ then have to be running in Wine too?

dont_know_at_all · Post by **dont_know_at_all** » Mon Jun 23, 2003 11:03 pm

Of course. I didn't say it was a elegant solution.

Amadeus · Post by **Amadeus** » Tue Jun 24, 2003 12:44 am

Last time I checked, Wine wouldn't support any 3d acceleration ...but, that could have changed :)

BlueSkies · Post by **BlueSkies** » Tue Jun 24, 2003 2:15 am

There's a version of WINE for directx games -- but you have to buy it. Don't remember the link off the top of my head.

Wishbringer · Post by **Wishbringer** » Tue Jun 24, 2003 3:11 am

http://www.transgaming.com

Current version of WinX is 3.1 and it runs smooth with Everquest (but a little bit slower than not emulated).

It costs $5 monthly, 3 month minimum subscription.
Nice for games like NeverwinterNights (runs faster than in original Windows).

IMHO not worth the effort unless you only want linux as your operating system and you still want to use Windows apps and games.

Amadeus · Post by **Amadeus** » Tue Jun 24, 2003 3:19 am

Someone hack WinX for us then dammit

..hehehe

Doodman · Post by **Doodman** » Tue Jun 24, 2003 12:35 pm

The free WineX (i.e from CVS) works just great for EQ, fully accelerated and all. I get close to the same performance out of it as I do on my windows box, maybe even better.

Getting out of it to do other work doesn't work the best. You need to run EQ in fullscreen, but I have wine use a window. Alt-tabing out works (if you window manager supports alt-tab) but it's kinda goofy and sometimes wine/EQ crashes.

AFAIK, you cannot run two apps in one wine session and separate wine sessions are just that. Separate.

merkzu · Post by **merkzu** » Tue Jun 24, 2003 5:13 pm

You only have to buy WineX if you need the ability to read protected cd's (ie safedisc)

Gengis · Post by **Gengis** » Wed Jun 25, 2003 4:04 am

Why do you have a prob iwth Apple? They can accomplish the same stuff Intel based computers can at half the processor speed.

ap50 · Post by **ap50** » Wed Jun 25, 2003 5:22 am

Oh god please, not a Macintosh vs PC thread HERE... God no.. please..

Mckorr · Post by **Mckorr** » Wed Jun 25, 2003 8:53 am

Gengis wrote:Why do you have a prob iwth Apple? They can accomplish the same stuff Intel based computers can at half the processor speed.

Yeah, but at half the cost of that Mac I can get twice the power with a PC.

My gripe with Apple has always been the cost. They are overpriced, and if you want to upgrade you have to buy proprietary hardware which is also overpriced.

Granted PC's using Windows (any version) are memory hogs, but RAM is relatively cheap these days... remember when it was pretty consistent at $1 a Meg?

BlueSkies · Post by **BlueSkies** » Wed Jun 25, 2003 10:55 am

Mckorr -- that's the EXACT same problem I have with Macs -- the proprietary hardware.

But I have to agree with ap50 -- this is Not the place for a Mac / PC debate. Perhaps one of the admins should move this thread to the General Discussion forum?

wassup · Post by **wassup** » Wed Jun 25, 2003 11:39 am

Wasn't a debate with me.

Use what you like and need is all I was saying. I just don't like those moronic commercials that Apple has.