12-03-2011, 04:40 AM
Guess what? I got it to work... on my Mac! I didn't have high expectations, but I got it to work very easily using Wine (Windows Emulator). The hardest part was setting Wine up through MacPorts, but that wasn't really hard just a little time consuming.
I thought I'd give it a shot before trying something heavy duty like Parallels, which I may still do after I'm done mucking around with Wine. Not only does it appear to work, but it looks like it works well. It *might* even perform better than the native version. Anyway... I'm getting ahead of myself. I'm just excited that it worked.
So far, the only thing that's not working for me is the sound effects. I'm getting the music just fine, and it sounds good. Dialogs look good so far. Ok, I'm starting to run into a few things here and there, but so far - nothing that stops me from playing the game. Minor nuisances.
I'm not sure how seriously you should take bug reports from Wine since it doesn't really reflect your true intended environment. I was also considering trying out VMWare Fusion and/or Parallels. I don't have a Windows machine at home anymore, so I'm afraid testing in an emulator or a windows virtual machine is the best I can do. One thing to keep in mind, though... if it works on Wine in OS X, there's a good chance it will also work fine using Wine on Linux.
I thought I'd give it a shot before trying something heavy duty like Parallels, which I may still do after I'm done mucking around with Wine. Not only does it appear to work, but it looks like it works well. It *might* even perform better than the native version. Anyway... I'm getting ahead of myself. I'm just excited that it worked.
So far, the only thing that's not working for me is the sound effects. I'm getting the music just fine, and it sounds good. Dialogs look good so far. Ok, I'm starting to run into a few things here and there, but so far - nothing that stops me from playing the game. Minor nuisances.
I'm not sure how seriously you should take bug reports from Wine since it doesn't really reflect your true intended environment. I was also considering trying out VMWare Fusion and/or Parallels. I don't have a Windows machine at home anymore, so I'm afraid testing in an emulator or a windows virtual machine is the best I can do. One thing to keep in mind, though... if it works on Wine in OS X, there's a good chance it will also work fine using Wine on Linux.