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Battlefield 1942 Makes It To The Mac 54

Posted by CowboyNeal from the mac-users-still-game-too dept.
Tzarius writes "GameSpy has a short article that says Aspyr Media has shipped Battlefield 1942 and the Road to Rome expansion for the Mac [There's more information on system requirements and screenshots on the official Aspyr page for the game.] Surely a little prodding would get them to do that little bit more for Linux?"
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Battlefield 1942 Makes It To The Mac

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  • Well (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Otter ( 3800 ) on Wednesday June 30, 2004 @03:40PM (#9574105) Journal
    Surely a little prodding would get them to do that little bit more for Linux?

    No, a little money would get them to do things for Linux. No one doubts the ability of Linux users to prod.

  • Native ports are the way to go! (Score:5, Informative)

    by PeteyG ( 203921 ) on Wednesday June 30, 2004 @03:47PM (#9574180) Homepage Journal
    I have torn my hair out trying to get games to run in Wine or WineX, but with very little real success. It is just a nightmare!

    However, I've recently acquired the Linux version of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri by Loki... and it is perfect. It installed like a dream, and there hasn't been a single problem. It could not have been easier. What Linux needs is more quality native ports like that, and if we can get BF1942, then Linux may start expanding as a native gaming platform.

  • Mac gamer! (Score:5, Funny)

    by MoOsEb0y ( 2177 ) on Wednesday June 30, 2004 @03:49PM (#9574197)
    Sweet! Now we have something to play besides warcraft 3, breakout, super breakout, and photoshop!

    linky [redvsblue.com] for the humor impaired

  • A trend? (Score:1, Redundant)

    by th1ckasabr1ck ( 752151 )
    Hopefully this will become more and more of a trend. I know UT2k4 shipped with linux binaries (not sure about Mac), and I know that DOOM3 plans on shipping with Mac and Linux binaries in the box.

    With any luck this process will become more and more common, but I'm not holdin gmy breath.

    • Re:A trend? (Score:3, Interesting)

      by kannibal_klown ( 531544 )
      There's a Mac version of UT2004, it came out almost immediately after the Windows version; maybe a day of 2 after.

      But it's a seperate DVD that can be found for about $30. My brand-new Powerbook can't play it as well as my year-old Windows laptop, but it's playable. I haven't tried it on a Powermac (or iMac) though, so I can't comment on how it runs there. But it supposedly flies on the G5's (and dual G4's).

      I own a Powerbook, but I use my PC for gaming. I only recently converted, so my PC is still mode

  • Linux is hard to sell games on. (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Sheetrock ( 152993 ) on Wednesday June 30, 2004 @03:51PM (#9574230) Homepage Journal
    Compared to the Macintosh, which is completely standardized in software and hardware, Linux is a mess. Loading the proper GL handler for X-Windows, ensuring the proper permissions are available to audio and video, and solving the myriad problems that occur with different setups in different distributions makes it extremely difficult to support games even if you get them to run.

    It's clearly possible, as Loki Software demonstrated, but the price disparity between Linux and Windows makes it a hard sell.

    • Re:Linux is hard to sell games on. (Score:4, Interesting)

      by Mean_Nishka ( 543399 ) on Wednesday June 30, 2004 @04:48PM (#9575081) Homepage Journal
      I can really see Linux gaming going from something you boot from an existing Linux installation to something more along the lines of liveCD games like we've been seeing trickling out lately.

      It'll be kinda neat to return to the days of the Apple II when you'd pop in a disc, boot, and get the game :).

      • It'll be kinda neat to return to the days of the Apple II when you'd pop in a disc, boot, and get the game :)

        You mean as you can do now with PlayStation, XBox, GameCube...?

      • Re:Linux is hard to sell games on. (Score:5, Interesting)

        by Blakey Rat ( 99501 ) on Wednesday June 30, 2004 @07:21PM (#9576724)
        No it won't, that's a pain in the ass! How do I get notified of incoming IMs while playing if I have to reboot my computer? How can I use a voice communication software package in the background if I have to reboot my computer? What if I have a SCSI card and it takes like 3 minutes to reboot the damn thing and I have to sit there and wait for it? How do I save my settings, like when I remap the keys? Does it automatically detect the HD, parse the filesystem, and save the settings there? If so, how would it cope with a filesystem it doesn't understand completely (i.e. NTFS.) What if I want to play online, but my network card (say an ethernet->usb adaptor) doesn't have any drivers in your boot CD? Can I add the drivers? Will it detect the drivers on my HD and auto-load them? And if so, how long would that take?

        The reason you could put the game on the boot disk in the past is because the OS did not do multitasking. (Also, computers were mostly instant-on, or close to instant-on.) Now that the OS does multitasking, and computers take a little while to boot, using a boot disk for a game is a dumb idea.
    • Cards either use DRI or the prorpietary nVidia system. OpenGL is a STANDARD because it doesn't require any special work to get it to function on all OpenGL compatible hardware.

      Maybe you could do a better job explaining what you mean by "Loading the proper GL handler". Permissions aren't a problem either. nVidia drivers automatically configure take care of the permissions issues, and DRI drivers simply need a line in the XF86Config/xorg.conf that tells it to allow all users to access the DRI device.

      Sure
      • If you have a nvidia geforce card, then OpenGL isn't too bad to get working on a Linux box. Radeon cards are a little more difficult, since you may have to grab the CVS branch from the DRI project to get that working. The latest Radeon cards have drivers from ATI which support several features of the higher-end hardware you won't find in free drivers, but do have a few problems.

        Writing software for OpenGL basic spec isn't too bad. It's whenever you want to use the full capabilities of the hardware that

  • wineX aka cedega (Score:4, Informative)

    by zal ( 553 ) on Wednesday June 30, 2004 @03:59PM (#9574300)
    Transgamings wineX has pretty good support for battlefield1942, so i doubt there is gonna be a port.
  • I thought I would drop a line and let those curious about the game know something about it. I have played Battlefield 1942 since the demo and bought the game the day it came out, so almost two years now. I have put in tons of pubbing and match game time with the game and I recommend this to any multiplayer fps gamer.

    If you do not plan to play this game online, do not waste your money. The game was built to play online and the single player is very boring. As for multiplayer, well, it gets an A+. Batt
    • I've also been playing this game [bftracks.us] since the demo. About half of the community has moved to Battlefield Vietnam (as you can see at Gamespy's stat site [gamespy.com]), but many of these players also play BF1942. The gameplay is very fun, and I remember laughing so much in the beginning when I saw those bodies flying up in the air when hit with a shell from a Chi-ha on Wake Island. The conquest gameplay type is engaging, and there are many community mods, chief among them being a modern desert warfare mod "Desert Combat [desertcombat.com]".
    • i play the game for a long time, too. but since patch 1.6 my desktop computer (duron 1300, geforce 2 mx) isnt able to run it smooth anymore. there has been a big performance drop with the patch. even on my brand new dell inspiron (pentium m 1.5, gforce fx 5200 go 64mb) it lags like hell with reduced graphics settings.

  • Don't forget (Score:5, Funny)

    by GrendelT ( 252901 ) on Wednesday June 30, 2004 @04:44PM (#9575013) Homepage
    Dear Mac gamers,
    Don't forget to Right-click when you want to zoom, call artillery, switch to the TNT plunger, etc.

    Sincerely,
    PC BF1942 players of the world.

    • Re:Don't forget (Score:4, Interesting)

      by hambonewilkins ( 739531 ) on Wednesday June 30, 2004 @05:17PM (#9575521)
      Oh, yes, because multi-button mouses aren't available for the mac. And you can't use a standard multi-button USB mouse with your mac. Believe me, back in 1999 when I got my B&W g3 and used a Microsoft USB MULTI-BUTTON mouse with it, I almost crapped myself. I somehow beat the odds.

      BTW, this means that your joke might have been relevant in 1998. Maybe.

    • Good old right clicking, It's become a luxury since I switched over from easy bake ovens *Err* sorry Macs to Win and Linux.
    • I got your "right-click on a Mac" right here buddy!

      /Whips out the trusted Razor Boomslang.

      Get ready to be oWnEd!

  • My only question: (Score:3, Interesting)

    by extrarice ( 212683 ) on Wednesday June 30, 2004 @05:21PM (#9575578) Homepage Journal
    Can the Mac client play against Windows players, or is it Mac-on-Mac only?

    • Re:My only question: (Score:1, Funny)

      by Anonymous Coward
      No, not really, since we're all playing Battlefield Vietnam now. I'm sure that Aspyr will do a Mac port of BV next year, around the time that most of us switch to Battlefield 2: Electric Boogaloo.
    • Yes. I,ve just received an answer to that same question that I placed on the Aspyr support site. Cross-platform play is supported.

      woo-hoo !

  • Another Halo? (Score:3, Insightful)

    by nacturation ( 646836 ) <nacturation AT gmail DOT com> on Wednesday June 30, 2004 @06:17PM (#9576194) Journal
    I sure hope this doesn't turn into a repeat of Halo on the Mac. From the reports, it was buggy, slow, and there was no demo available. Then Macsoft starts complaining about piracy [insidemacgames.com]. Gee, with no demo and reports of a crappy port, I wonder why people took to pirating it.

    As for BF1942, the jury's still out. All I want to know is where I can download the demo and try it out myself.
  • So they've been working on getting battlefeild to the Mac since 1942? Jeez, even my programming teams work faster then that.
  • With so many Linux users moaning about how they have to use closed source graphics card drivers that they get for free, what kind of company that wants to stay in business would ever think about producing software that they expect these same folk to pay for? If you believe there's any market for games on Linux then you're delusional. Mac users have a history and reputation for putting their money where their mouth is. Linux users put their code there instead. WineX is the only real way you'll see a broad se
  • Half of the success of the PC version of BF1942 has been the popularity of MODS such as Desert Combat.

    Any word on whether this version is compatible with the PC mods or whether mods will have to be recoded? What has the track record been with other titles ported to the Mac?

  • Who in the hell plays Online Games on Macs these days? Mac gaming is circa 1996(Remembers those days nostagicly.. playing LucasArts Adventure games)
  • Is it just me or do the system requirements seem high?

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