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Battles in Normandy on a Mac? - 12/9/2004 6:09:01 PM

philsublime

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This is probably one of the most stupid questions ever asked on this forum! Problem is, I will get a new notebook, and I really would love to get me an IBook. The reason I'm hesitating is the fact, that my beloved BiN won't run on it... But that's about it. BiN would be the only thing I miss from my old Windows PC. I'm basically asking, because for example the combat mission series is made for Mac as well, so I thought there might be some possibilites...

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RE: Battles in Normandy on a Mac? - 12/10/2004 12:57:22 PM

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Sorry philsublime, but BIN is available only for PC.

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RE: Battles in Normandy on a Mac? - 12/10/2004 1:59:09 PM

Fred98

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Get a Wintel machine

Or get Virtual Windows.

Don't abandon BIN

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RE: Battles in Normandy on a Mac? - 12/12/2004 3:53:29 PM

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I d try an emulator , don t buy a PC laptop just for BIN :} Or buy a used low end p3 box for wargames.

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RE: Battles in Normandy on a Mac? - 12/13/2004 6:01:44 PM

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I run BiN on a PowerMac G4 1.25GHz and a PowerBook G4 1GHz using Virtual PC 6 with Windows 98 installed as the OS. It runs fine! But you need plenty of memory installed - at least 512Mb.

Additional word of warning though - don't buy a new Mac expecting to play any of the current Combat Mission games. They only work on older Macs which can dual boot fully into OS9. My PowerMac can do this, and runs Combat Mission Afrika Corps fine, my PowerBook can't and Combat Mission DOES NOT run in OSX Classic mode or under Virtual PC. No new G4 or G5 Mac can boot into OS9.

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RE: Battles in Normandy on a Mac? - 12/14/2004 1:50:27 PM

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Thanks! I will get my iBook and try to emulate Windows. I still got my Windows Desktop, in case it doesn't work... So I won't have to abandon BiN, which is the best game of its kind!

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