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Downloading the game for a Mac - djoser1970 - 05-19-2014
Hello I have a question? My friend has a new Mac and he want's to play FL Discovery he seen me playing and wants to join in the action. I have Windows 7 Ultimate and I can navigate any files without problems but I never used a Mac before. I have the game on disk, can I use the disks to install the game and also Discovery. This is all new territory for me I have no clue what I am doing here. Any help and advice would be appreciated. Thanks for the help.
RE: Downloading the game for a Mac - dirmaster0 - 05-19-2014
I don't believe you can get FL to work on the Mac OS platform. You might be able to use Wine to try and play the game but most likely this will not work.
RE: Downloading the game for a Mac - evanz - 05-19-2014
i dont know anything about macs, but he could try this https://www.apple.com/uk/support/bootcamp/
no guarantee itll work tho
RE: Downloading the game for a Mac - djoser1970 - 05-19-2014
(05-19-2014, 09:05 AM)dirmaster0 Wrote: I don't believe you can get FL to work on the Mac OS platform. You might be able to use Wine to try and play the game but most likely this will not work.Yeah that is what I thought since it's on a MS platform and the coding is different. I think there is a conversion code out there that are MS/Mac friendly and it's suppose to work - how stable I don't know, it reads the opposite platform (this is a basic description) now to find a game that has the code and file. Some how I have a feeling it's more work ahead of me just to install the game.
RE: Downloading the game for a Mac - lIceColon - 05-19-2014
bootcamp will work completely.
My school has macs dual booting windows and mac and they work just fine.
Always having a ready copy of windows on you is handy.
RE: Downloading the game for a Mac - dirmaster0 - 05-19-2014
(05-19-2014, 09:34 AM)djoser1970 Wrote:(05-19-2014, 09:05 AM)dirmaster0 Wrote: I don't believe you can get FL to work on the Mac OS platform. You might be able to use Wine to try and play the game but most likely this will not work.Yeah that is what I thought since it's on a MS platform and the coding is different. I think there is a conversion code out there that are MS/Mac friendly and it's suppose to work - how stable I don't know, it reads the opposite platform (this is a basic description) now to find a game that has the code and file. Some how I have a feeling it's more work ahead of me just to install the game.
If you try Wine, thats a way you can run Windows platform programs on unix/linux based OS's like OSX or Ubuntu, but its a pain to get Wine to work properly. I would go with the other suggestion written above (Bootcamp)--Get yourself a copy of Windows, partition the space on your HD and install Windows on the 2nd partition. Theres guides out there to do this as well. I would note you need to account for the minimum specifications to run Windows as well depending on which one you get. This means you need to have a good enough processor, enough RAM & free HD space.
RE: Downloading the game for a Mac - irritinus - 05-19-2014
if you dont want a dual boot I think you can also use a virtual machine with windows
RE: Downloading the game for a Mac - dirmaster0 - 05-19-2014
(05-19-2014, 08:37 PM)irritinus Wrote: if you dont want a dual boot I think you can also use a virtual machine with windows
This is also a good approach ^ VM Ware or Virtual Box are two good virtual machine programs
RE: Downloading the game for a Mac - Treewyrm - 05-20-2014
I had moderate success running FL/Disco in Windows 7 within VMWare Fusion hypervisor and 3D acceleration enabled there. Everything seem worked fine, negligible performance drop compared to running natively.
Did try with wine/crossover but it was rather glitchy and multiplayer didn't work properly.