telltale game on Apple computers

[Cardcaptor Stacey]

Originally Posted by r00tb33r

Well... Sam&Max didn't work on a fresh build of wine or cedega, however besides the few great FPS games released for Linux, there are plenty that do work with the emulation

Well, I actually meant native games :P Emulation doesn't count

Originally Posted by Guybrush Threepwood

Linux get the Penny Arcade games! Well, that's one (hopefully) good game...

Oh there's some great free games that come with the O.S., but not really anything good commercial.

Originally Posted by dg10050

Sam and Max does work fine in Linux

Not for everyone I'm having troubles

[r00tb33r]

Oh there's some great free games that come with the O.S., but not really anything good commercial.

thats if you are not into fps... pretty much all ID games have been ported to Linux, Doom 3 and Quake 4 had simultaneous Linux release...
Unreal, UT, UT2003 and UT2004 are all ported to Linux... not sure about Unreal 2...
Serious Sam 2 had a fairly quick Linux release as well... OpenAL never worked well for me... it works for some people thats all that matters i guess...

now if everybody else picked ID as the role model in Linux ports then we all would be a lot happier.

[Emily]

I was raised in a Mac household, and I played all my Sierra adventure games on Apple computers. The only reason I bought a PC after college was because games weren't coming out for the Mac anymore.

But last year I bought a MacBook, and it's what I'm using right now to post this. That must count for something.

[wsippel]

Originally Posted by Cardcaptor Stacey

Well, I actually meant native games :P Emulation doesn't count

Wine isn't emulation. It's a "reimplementation of the Windows APIs on top of Unix." [/nitpick]

And by the way, Sam & Max works pretty well on a Mac or Linux using the latest version of Crossover Office and Crossover Games. Only Season 2 Ep 1 doesn't work according to the Wine application database.

[wisp]

Originally Posted by Emily

I was raised in a Mac household(...)

a mac household...hehe. "no, we can't marry, our parents will never allow it. you were raised pc and i mac"

we just need to wait a few more years..i would really like a mac version, but fortunately you have the option of bootcamp on intel macs and the g3 won't be supported by native mac os games anyway, so it doesn't matter to me.

[fajerkaos]

Originally Posted by dg10050

Now the guys at Telltale need to make that HTML menu that they promised for this site to replace the current flash-based one that doesn't work properly.

... And so they did.

Nice work Tabacco!
The time it takes for me to load the site, has reduced almost in half. I'm a happy fajerkaos now!

[tabacco]

You can thank Mike for that one, actually

[fajerkaos]

Ops, sorry.
Thanks Mike! Much appreciated

[dg10050]

Thanks Mike!

[StewG]

Originally Posted by Cardcaptor Stacey

That's great compared to the crappy selection of games for Linux :P

You have some games for Linux that you can buy on tuxgames.com, pluss you can make most games work on wine

[StewG]

But Sam & Max on Mac would be awesome. I just bought myselfe a Mac, and I would love to play S&M on it

[marsan]

How ironic. I'm getting myself an old iMac, because I want to play Pegasus Prime on it. Also, some of my old games have dual mac/windows dvds/cds, like quite many of the Myst games, and Journeyman Project 3. I also bought a copy of Warcraft 2, which runs both on MacOS 9 and Windows.

It's for shame that so little apps supports pre-MacOS X anymore. Just finding a browser that works better than those age old versions of Netscape and Internet Explorer were a drag. You can still get a lot of apps for Windows 98(which were released before MacOS 9), but getting apps for MacOS 9 is a lot of work.

[Nod]

I'd love to play Sam & Max on my Mac, and it seems like it'd be a good fit since it doesn't have insane hardware reqs. I know the Penny Arcade folks were able to do their game on Mac/Windows/Linux simultaneously. Cider might also be an option:

http://www.transgaming.com/

Of course Boot Camp is an option with an Intel Mac, but completely rebooting to play a game, and then booting back when you're done is a hassle.

[dg10050]

Fyi, Hothead Games, the guys who made the Penny Arcade game, licensed the Torque Game Engine (TGE) for their games. TGE already has ports on Mac and Linux, so it wasn't really much effort for them to release the game on those platforms too. It's a bit more difficult to port a game that depends on a bunch of Windows components over to another platform. And you can't exactly just drag and drop a game into Cider and have it run, unless I'm missing something.
Edit: Well apparently I was missing something. According to the Transgaming site, Cider is basically just a contained version of Wine.

[Orange+]

Macs aren't for games.

[Seg]

Originally Posted by Orange+

Macs aren't for games.

My New Media BFA Thesis was a game developed for Mac & Windows.

Windows & Mac was my aim from the beginning. I wanted my Mac to play the game, and most of my professors were on Mac. I choose Shockwave as my engine as it was the only engine that could do video. Torque was very attractive, but didn't do video, and Flash wasn't quite ready to handle video at that time.

[DarthBo]

I buy games for the game, not the engine... so wouldn't opening the code/specs for your engine allow other devs to jump in and make a (free/unsupported) client for their OS?
Or you could somehow work together with scummvm, they have ports to practically every platform.

I kicked out Windows years ago and I'm not planning on ever using it again, for now wine does the trick, but a native client would be preferred...

[Iron Curtain]

Originally Posted by V_Ben

i have a mac. boot camp is my friend.

Mine Too. That's how I get to play the PC versions of all the Sam & Max games, plus SBCG4AP.

Originally Posted by TrogLlama

I'm not familiar with Macs; that was just my understanding of Bootcamp's function.

Boot Camp is not a Windows Emulator for Macs but a program that allows Intel-based Mac Owners to dual boot Windows with more ease than without. When you start it in OS X, you partition your hard drive, and then insert the Windows Disc to install Windows, and then when Windows Starts up, you eject the disc and put the OS X 10.5 Leopard disc in to install the drivers to make Windows more "mac-friendly" (e.g. activating the volume keys, CD eject key, bluetooth receiver, wi-fi receiver, etc.).

And thanks to Boot Camp, I can play PC games on my Mac!

[Sterrance]

I have a Mac Book Pro and I refuse to install Windoz because that's how rabid of a fanboy I am. One of my favorite things about the Adventure Games of the past were that they were mostly all on the Mac. I gotta tell you, if there's one "genius" who decided to make Grimm Fandango PC only, he better watch his back .

But since Telltale is putting the games on the Wii now, I'm fine.