Transgaming Technologies and Mac Developers 141
ZerocarboN writes "With such current Mac publishers as Aspyr and MacSoft typically spending months to bring games to the Mac, Mr. State said: "We imagine that they are re-evaluating their business models. Our technology does revolutionize how games are brought to the Mac, which we believe will result in a paradigm shift in the Mac game publishing landscape." He added that TransGaming has no plans to license Cider to other companies, but "we are always open to discussion.""
Transgaming is NOT the only solution! (Score:5, Informative)
There's also Crossover Mac [codeweavers.com] coming, from Codeweavers. Not only is this better because the user can buy it instead of waiting on game makers to port stuff, but it's also better because unlike Transgaming, Codeweavers contributes back to WINE.
Of course, there's also vanilla DarWINE [opendarwin.org], but I haven't had any success with it on my Intel iMac yet.
Cider (Score:5, Informative)
Since the summary didn't explain what Cider [transgaming.com] is:
Re:Not Good (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Not Good (Score:4, Informative)
Where do you get yours? Are you reading financial reports from 6 years ago? Apple has been in steady growth cycle for the last several years. They have consistently reported that 50% of thier sales or more were not previous Mac owners.
Apple Financial Results [apple.com]
Here's some more links on the subject
http://www.macnn.com/articles/05/12/02/safari.popu larity.growing/ [macnn.com]
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jun 2006/tc20060615_080175.htm [businessweek.com]
http://www.macobserver.com/article/2006/07/19.18.s html [macobserver.com]
Explaination of the Myth of Market Share (Google Cache) [66.102.7.104]
Re:Not Good (Score:3, Informative)
A software emulator allows computer programs to run on a platform (computer architecture and/or operating system) other than the one for which they were originally written.
Note the part about "operating system" emulation. Just like Gnu's Not Unix, Wine Is Not an Emulator. Both are just names, Wine most certainly is an Emulator, and Gnu's Not Unix when they can't pay for the name, but it sure is Unix otherwise.
Re:Transgaming is NOT the only solution! (Score:2, Informative)
The difference between Cedega from CVS and the commercial package is mainly the copyprotection stuff.
Commercial cedega is able to play games from the original disc using the original binaries with copyprotection.
Transgaming cannot release the code for this because it is the IP from another company, Transganming is licesing the code.
If you use Cedega from CVS, you have to use some hacked binaries from gamecopyworld for most of the games you play.
AFAIK wine does not incorporate CEDEGA's code because they implement their own way of DirectX 9.0
For some games it works even better then the cedega version, YMMV
not the silver bullet (Score:5, Informative)
It looks like transgaming needs to tweak its engine for every video games. When the game receives a patch, some of them stop to work and gamers have to wait another tweak from transgaming. It looks like a lot of users are frustrated.
Transgaming may dramatically reduce the time you need to port a Windows based video game to Linux and MacOSX but it isn't such a clean way yet. They do not provide a 100% compatible DirectX 9.0 framework.
Re:Transgaming is NOT the only solution! (Score:1, Informative)
But, yeah, at this late stage the WINE people have just said fuck it, we're not going to get anything from Cedega, and wrote their own stuff.
Re:Transgaming is NOT the only solution! (Score:3, Informative)
I assume you're talking about this [transgaming.org], which hasn't been updated since June [transgaming.org], and which barely has any discussion except about internationalization [transgaming.org]. Or maybe you're talking about ReWind, the BSD-licenced fork of WINE, which is even more lifeless [transgaming.org].
Contrast that with WINE, which is actively developed [winehq.org], discussed [winehq.org], and used [winehq.org] enough to justify "weekly" news articles [winehq.com].