12.06.2007 10:20 Uhr, Quelle: Hardmac.com

TransGaming Cider to Accelerate the Release of EA Games on Macs

During the keynote, Steve Jobs invited a representative from electronic Arts to announce the future availability of the most popular games from EA on Mac in the coming weeks, among them Command & Conquer 3, Battlefield 2142, Need for Speed Carbon, and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Will this mean that game editors are back and aiming to invest for the Mac market? Yes and no. Behind this announcement there is a technology, Wine, and its game oriented application known as Cider, from the company TransGaming. This technology will be used to "repack" PC games in Mac format. There is no need to rewrite the code of games, as Cider will make most of the work by translating on the fly DirectX, OpenGL or normal APIs. So porting a game from Pc to Mac will take couple of weeks instead of months if not years before, when code had to be rewritten (where is Colin McRae 2005?). Games might not be as stable as on PC (at the b

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