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Labienus -> RE: Is there any way to play FoF in OSX? (6/30/2009 11:39:37 PM)
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You are going to very happy with your iMac! About two years ago, I bought a MacBook Pro. My wife and I owned about 7 PCs - all Windows based machines (law firm). Eventually, all but one of these machines met with, what we felt was, an early demise. As time passed, I pulled hard drives from dead machines and installed them into still working machines. Eventually, I had more hard drives than machines. Ultimately, I had more hard drives than I could install in machines.
I have been lurking about on these forums since 2003. Your question has compelled me to register.
YES! You can play these games (kinda) in OSX. What I did is partition my hard drive and install Windows XP on the "dark side" of the disk. I just start the machine holding down the "option" key and I get the option to boot in OSX or jump into the abyss (windows). Your machine can handle windows based software as simple as that.
You can also try a couple of the software programs written for this purpose - "Parallels" or "Crossover." I am not going to recommend either, but your Apple Store Expert will. I tried Crossover and wasn't all that satisfied. Of course two years have passed, and perhaps the software is better. You will enjoy the irony of running Windows in a window on your Mac. I just prefer to re-boot. These machines are so fast, you can re-boot before you finish you bathroom breaks anyway.
One thing you may want to do is buy a couple of USB data sticks. This gives me an easy work around to download from the OSX side and then re-boot to the dark side move the data to the windows desktop and then install. I do this so I never have to go online in Windows. (No anti-virus software needed).
Last, make sure you dedicate a large portion of hard drive space to the dark side. I understand that several new titles are on the verge of release. [;)]
Written on a Mac.
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