Acorn on 20/8/2007 at 02:44
Quote Posted by David
Thief runs fine on a Mac running Bootcamp anyway. It would be a massive exercise in pointlessness for Eidos to port Thief to OSX, and I'm a Mac user!
Bootcamp? I'll have to check it out, I haven't tried any pc compatibility software yet.
I'd still like the game brand new in Mac format though.
Can't have too much Thief. :cheeky:
Question: When you say bootcamp runs Thief, do you mean all versions, or just I and II?
jay pettitt on 20/8/2007 at 21:26
Bootcamp doesn't run Thief, Windows runs Thief. Bootcamp lets you install and run Windows on an Intel powered Mac alongside Apple's OSX operating system. You'll need any old version of Bootcamp and a copy of Windows.
Abysmal on 20/8/2007 at 21:58
MacPlay is pretty much dead these days; AFAIK Aspyr is the only real active porting house anymore (not that there's a chance in hell they would bother with this in the first place).
Also, I regularly play all three Thief games on my Mac using Windows just fine. Nothing special needed.
imperialreign on 20/8/2007 at 22:23
honestly, not to go pissing on any parade - but the only version of Thief that I see that they might be willing to port would be TDS. The other 2 are just too old for a developer to think it would bring enough interest on a different platform.
Sure, we may be keeping the shadows alive here and all, but we're only a small, very small fraction of the entire gaming population; even if you just look at the percentage of MAC users . . .
But, IMO, I'm all for throwing down a petition for it, or a petition for the source code to be unleashed, or a petition for Thief this, or Thief that; so . . . you'd have my support!
('cause I'm an American, I'll petition anything!! :cheeky: )
Acorn on 20/8/2007 at 23:25
Bah!
I tried to get back in last night but the system seemed to be down.
I looked up Bootcamp to buy it and it said that Apple will release its next OS with bootcamp included, so I'll just wait for the upgrade because I'm on dialup and can't download 300 megs without losing the connection before its complete (I live out in the country and don't want to pay for satelite). Didn't know I could load windows to Mac before, I haven't had a mac since 1996. :P just got the new one last week. But got that sorted out. Still, I'm suggesting they pick up the game... because I'm relentless.
Can't wait to play Thief I and II again though! :D
Volca on 22/8/2007 at 06:10
I'd say your best chance is the boot camp.
Those people owning non-intel mac will have to wait for either some virtualisation technology (that could be very slow) or for openDarkEngine (I couldn't resist to make a small advertisement - if all goes well, there will be a working version for non-intel Mac's as well - we have a guy working on it)
