Re: OS X Games

2003-02-24 Thread Michael D. Crawford
There _is_ a project underway to enable one to run OS X binaries under one of the BSD's running on PowerPC. It was mentioned on Slashdot a while back. However this project is just beginning and will probably take at least a couple years before you could run many OS X applications. OS X has a d

Re: OS X Games

2003-02-24 Thread Jason Healy
27;ll need a processor that could run them natively. Thus, to run Mac OS X games, you'll still need a Mac with a PowerPC chip in it. If you have a mac, but are running linux on it, I suggest you surf on over to the Mac-On-Linux site: http://www.maconlinux.org/ Using that software, you can actu

Re: OS X Games

2003-02-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 10:31:34AM -0500, sean finney wrote: > On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 02:32:21PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > They're not sufficiently similar for that to work, no. Apart from > > anything else, unless you're running Linux on PowerPC then it's a > > different processor architectu

Re: OS X Games

2003-02-24 Thread sean finney
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 02:32:21PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > They're not sufficiently similar for that to work, no. Apart from > anything else, unless you're running Linux on PowerPC then it's a > different processor architecture. Also, while MacOS X under the hood is > similar to Linux in that

Re: OS X Games

2003-02-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 01:44:26PM +, Keith O'Connell wrote: > Warcraft III is a CD for Windows and Mac OS X. Does the OS X > part suggest that is is likley that it might run nativly under > linux, or have I misunderstood OS X's similarith to Linux? They're not sufficie

OS X Games

2003-02-24 Thread Keith O'Connell
Hi, Warcraft III is a CD for Windows and Mac OS X. Does the OS X part suggest that is is likley that it might run nativly under linux, or have I misunderstood OS X's similarith to Linux? Keith -- ___ _ Keith O'Connell.