03.08.2007 09:05 Uhr, Quelle: Hardmac.com

Cider: Rosetta for PC games

During the last WWDC, EA Games proudly announced the future porting of its flagship titles on Mac thanks to the proprietary version of Wine available from Transgaming and entitled Cider. If we are still waiting for the announced games to be released as the expected date was on July, other games taking advantage of Cider are already on the market, such as Heroes of Might and Magic V, Myst Online: URU Live, X3: Reunion or the game engine offered by GameTap. As Transgaming did not lock its application package, many users have been performing their own porting of PC games! They successfully launched Far Cry, GTR 2, or even Colin Mac Rae 2005 natively on Mac OS X, simply by using X3: Réunion or GameTap-distributed application as starting basis To give you an idea, a reader posted a video of official and unofficial Cider-powered games:

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