Hello everyone,
I am wondering if anyone can tell if Mac users need to do something special to play here? I have a friend who wants to play but he uses a Mac notebook. If there is something special he needs to do can you all let me know either here or in a pm. Thank you.
Seren.
um yeah, my friend Danton has a mac too but he can't play except when he goes home and uses his home computer now. I think he did some research on it and found it Mac doesn't support UO cuz Mac's like to be specific and monopolize on its popularity so they can charge its owners with every flippn thing but that also makes gamming on Macs stupid.
lol, sorry i went on my I hate Mac rant...
There are a few ways mac users can play here :
Intel mac users can probably use DarWine, and install UO in it - probably easiest is to use our custom installer (beta) to play, as Gateway and ConnectUO have awkward requirements (IE and .net)
All mac users should be able to install Windows in a piece of software called "Parallels", and whatever windows software they want within that.
Intel mac users can do the same without buying Parallels using VirtualBox
Intel mac users should be able to install XP in dual-boot with OS/X
Parallels costs money, and of course so does XP (which you have to install under Parallels or VirtualBox), so the free option is darwine.
If someone in the UK wants to loan or give me one of those nice shiny intel-based macs I can write a step-by-step for getting the best setup!
P.S. if it's an intel mac, I've "found" something that might be of use, but it isn't legal and I've not finished "looking" at it yet.
Greetings all,
I would be the Mac using friend of Serenity. It is a macbook '09 so it's a full intel machine. I do have it dual booted with Windows 7 (which may or may not like UO) and I also have 2 Virtual Boxed OS's, WinXP and Ubuntu Linux. I know I can make WinXP run it but I was looking for a proprietary solution as Virtual Box can be a little evil at times when networking, not to mention WinXP uses way more resourses than it reasonably needs to do just about anything. As far as the other method your looking into, the Prime Minister would like to know.
Quote from: creampuff on April 28, 2009, 03:52:16 AM
um yeah, my friend Danton has a mac too but he can't play except when he goes home and uses his home computer now. I think he did some research on it and found it Mac doesn't support UO cuz Mac's like to be specific and monopolize on its popularity so they can charge its owners with every flippn thing but that also makes gamming on Macs stupid.
lol, sorry i went on my I hate Mac rant...
Interesting view. Ever hear of Games for Windows? It's Microsoft's method of enticing publishers to not release games on other platforms. If a Publisher gets their product liscensed via Games for Windows they are in an exclusivity agreement. A forced, cash laden monopoly. Now granted, yes, Apple does rely on their popularity to drive purchases (and I cannot stand the iPod... god choke me every time I see the ads) but they do represent an interesting alternative to Windows Only machines. You can't really run OSX, WinXP, Ubuntu, and Win7 concurently on your Dell/Hp/Toshiba now can you?
/Counter Rant Off/
Oh and gaming used to be horrible on macs, but the intel macs seem to have GeForce 9400's as a minimum now so that's kinda a non issue anymore.
Quote from: Noble.K on April 29, 2009, 04:22:55 AMYou can't really run OSX, WinXP, Ubuntu, and Win7 concurently on your Dell/Hp/Toshiba now can you?
Erm.... actually... yep, just not and accept the EULAs. osx86 on the machine directly, then virtualbox to run the rest... But that's just me being picky!