I-War 2 (and others?) on MacOSX

Shadowcat on 29/10/2009 at 22:02

Maybe this is already well-known amongst Mac users, but the lead dev for I-War 2 mod "Torn Stars" just posted about a way to run the game under OSX using a wrapper called Cider that comes with the Mac version of X3:

(http://www.torn-stars.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=98&Itemid=42)

A quick search shows that Cider is made by (http://www.transgaming.com/) Transgaming and used in a lot of their game ports. I didn't see any obvious indication that you could purchase it as a stand-alone product, but one suspects that buying any of their game ports would give you the ability to try this out. More recent games may get you a more advanced version of Cider, at a guess (but they might also do online updates for the wrapper).

dvrabel on 29/10/2009 at 22:13

Transgaming's Cider is just a proprietary version of Wine. Try Wine instead.

(http://wiki.winehq.org/MacOSX)

Shadowcat on 29/10/2009 at 22:27

*slaps forehead*

Wine. Apple. Cider. I should have realised.

Thanks :)