Does anybody know if Wolf ET will play on the MacBook Pro? If not, will there be a way to play it on the MacBook Pro? I am a college student and have not decided which laptop to buy. Acer Travel Mate 8200 or the Macbook Pro. I would like to be able to play Wolf Et though.
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http://www.splashdamage.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Downloads&file=index&req=viewsdownload&sid=13 has a mac download for W:ET, not sure if that’s what you’re looking for though :].
Anyway, RR2DO2 said: “It should work through rosetta” - whatever that is :moo: 
Thanks for the comment… I tried to play Wolf ET on a G5 iMac and it did not play very well. Only on a few servers let me play. Anybody else having problems with Wolf ET 2.60 for Mac?
Thanks
Rosetta = emulation = slow (most likely)
Also see this thread:
http://www.splashdamage.com/index.php?name=pnPHPbb2&file=viewtopic&t=13736
Well holefully Rosetta will run faster now that the Macs have the Intel Chip in them… Does anybody else have Macs running Wolf ET? How are you finding it running?
Thanks everybody!
Ok ill explain:
ET 2.60 mac version is build for the old apple’s (with IBM proc, G#)(dunno all teh things about it)
The new macbookpro uses the intel core duo proc. Intel uses x86 processors, the G5 isn’t. ET 2.60 is made for the G5 proc. Now mac osx uses rosetta to emulate the G5 proc file stuff into x86 so the Intel can run it. This means that the intel proc loses speed as it needs to emulate it.
Either choise:
-Get the Macbookpro and emulate it, it will be slow.
-Get The acer, wait til tehy crack a dualboot with mac osx on it (yes they are busy with it). Then you can just play ET on windows and use Mac OSX if u want a macbook for that
-Get the Macbook and get (or wait till there is) a dualboot with windows vista beta (windows xp is not possible due EFi bios, Vista beta might be instable and slower as well)
From your post i cant make clear what you want. Maybe you want to choose the macbook as it is better for your studie (multimedia design or something). It could be that it makes no difference and u like teh macbook as it looks nice and cuz of the ipod hype. If it is the 2nd of this, go for teh acer as you never worked with mac osx i think and you cant use windows applications, a mac isnt also meant to be a game computer as well, most is released for windows. So if you like gaming, get the Acer and be happy, then get dualboot if you need macosx later, would be nice :).
Thanks for the explaination. I have heard about the dual boot with Vista Beta, but cannot find out how to get it. I have own PC’s all my life and would like to give Mac a try, esp sinct they have aquired the Intel Chip. Maybe i should wait on purchasing any laptop and see where they go from here. Say maybe fall before classes begin… But the Acer does look cool with the carbon fibre lid!
Thanks again!
No problem, i am also interested myself in a mac OSX - Windows xp/vista boot in the future (ill be buying a laptop upcoming summer for my study). Ive done some searching about it and found a interesting site:
http://www.osx86project.org/
It seems that Mac OSX on a normal windows laptop is no problem, also dualboot windows/mac OSX is no problem. Booting windows XP on a macbook pro is impossible. The mac uses a new sort of bios called EFI. Windows xp has no support for EFI and wont boot. Maybe they will make a workaround for it (maybe a linux trick?). Windows Vista (and its beta’s) have EFI bios support so can boot on a macbook pro. Still they havent tried/get this working as far as i know. It could even brick your mac i have heared.
I’d say that the acer would be the best choise. You have the guarrantee that you will boot both Windows+Mac OSX. By this you can play all games without problem (the laptop is fast enough as well, not sure bout specs but tought it was teh same as teh mac (core duo, 1 GB, radeon x1600)). You can try out mac OSX for the first time as well (remember, no windows apps run on it as it is still mac…). If you like mac osx so good you could always buy a mac on your next pc. When buying the acer you will be sure you wont have wasted your money when it seems mac OSX is not your OS.
Of course it is your money and your choise :). I hope you have enough information now to make the right choise. Im also not anti mac :), just never got the chance to get it as i want to play games and a mac is not made for it, windows is better for that.
Ya, i have heard that Macs are not for games. I have also heard that since they have the Intel Chip in that more companies are going to be making their games compatable. For instance, Lucas Arts. Another thing i like about the Macbook Pro is the way it looks. There is something about a Mac that other PC’s cannot copy. The sheer lines, i think they are beautiful. But that is just me, like i said before i have never owned an Apple product before… not even an iPod. If i do end up getting the Macbook, i hope i will not regret it. I too have been searching and i think there is something called Darwin. I am not 100% sure what that program does, or if it even is in production, but i think it is another emulator built for the Intel Mac.
Thanks again for the comments!
Darwin is the “core set of components upon which Mac OS X was developed”.
Rosetta is the only emulator included in OSX.
FWIW, it is reasonable to expect that at some point in the future, you will be able to do some or all of the following:
Whether this makes the investment in overpriced Mac hardware worthwhile is up to you :moo:
I sometimes play it on my G4 (1.4 with 2GB RAM and a crappy ATI 64MB) and it’s OK. It’s very playable, and I haven’t had any problems with servers.
However, my windows box has a nicer video card, so I usually play it on that. (I’m not very good on either box, I just play to have fun.)
Considering that doom 3 has been ported to PowerPC and Intel Macs, and quake 4 is about to, I’d be soooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooo happy if QW would get intel Mac treatement (Hey, WOW did!). Then I’d be able to ditch my windows box and be down to just a couple of Macs and a Nintendo.
I should also add that this topic brings warmth to my heart.
Why? Because as most of you probably don’t know, but the very first Wolfenstein game was developed for Apple computers. (Back in those days, MS graphics consisted of C:> )
Here’s the link for you kids:
And don’t even start me on Marathon, the precursor to Halo.
But, things have changed since those days. For worse when it comes to gaming, for better when it comes to everything else.
But, here’s a good Mac Gamer Switch commercial:
from same page:
Also for: Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64, DOS
Macs are ok, use a G4 for ProTools, but can’t think of any other uses for it
My seccond post had more info about dualboot and it is already possible yes. Today i also read that Vista wont have EFI support (the thing used instead of the BIOS in intel macs) so it wont be able to boot on a mactel, altough they are busy to try it, it will still take time if it is possible at all.
You probably mean darWine. Wine is an emulator for linux, darWine is the emulator for Mac OSX. It lets you run windows apps trough an emulator. So you can use any windows app i think. Still just liek rosetta for G5->Intelmac this also costs performance to Windows->Mac OSX.
Still you could look for other notebooks tehn the acer. Acer doesn’t have the nicest notebooks at all, maybe dell(suxx in my eyes, but ok…)/HP/Asus have some nice ones.