MacBook Pro

Aalpeculea - Sanctuary
Aalpeculea - Sanctuary Posts: 28 Arc User
edited November 2010 in General Discussion
Will PWI work for MackBook Pro? Thank you for you answer.
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  • Alphae - Lost City
    Alphae - Lost City Posts: 1,512 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    PWI does not have a version for Mac, and it's not planning one.

    In order to get PWI on your Mac, there are several methods, but the only one I remember is to "ghost" Windows, so that you can boot from either OS. I think. I'm kind of a computer noob, but that's pretty much the jist of it.
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  • Fuzzy_Wuzzy - Raging Tide
    Fuzzy_Wuzzy - Raging Tide Posts: 770 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    Use bootcamp assistant in the utilities folder on your mac. Through here you can create a fat32 partition on your hard drive. If you have a legit version of either XP (service pack 2+), Vista, or 7 you can then install the operating system on the new partition. Once all said and done, voila, a working Windows OS on your MacBook. Download PWI and you are off to the races.

    Fuzzy plays on his MacBook all the time. It works without a hitch.

    b:victory


    edit: you can also create a NTFS partition, but Fuzzy wouldn't recommend it unless you also create another shared fat32 one. OSX can read NTFS but can't write to it. If you want to move files (such as videos created with FRAPS) back and forth between Wins and OSX u need a fat32 intermediary at the least)
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  • Aalpeculea - Sanctuary
    Aalpeculea - Sanctuary Posts: 28 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    Fuzzy_Wuzzy - Raging Tide wrote: »
    Use bootcamp assistant in the utilities folder on your mac. Through here you can create a fat32 partition on your hard drive. If you have a legit version of either XP (service pack 2+), Vista, or 7 you can then install the operating system on the new partition. Once all said and done, voila, a working Windows OS on your MacBook. Download PWI and you are off to the races.

    Fuzzy plays on his MacBook all the time. It works without a hitch.

    b:victory


    edit: you can also create a NTFS partition, but Fuzzy wouldn't recommend it unless you also create another shared fat32 one. OSX can read NTFS but can't write to it. If you want to move files (such as videos created with FRAPS) back and forth between Wins and OSX u need a fat32 intermediary at the least)

    You mean, if I get a vista7 legit version, I can play pwi without use bootcamp assistant?
  • Alphae - Lost City
    Alphae - Lost City Posts: 1,512 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    No, you have to use both. Bootcamp allows you to create a partition on your hard drive, and then you install your legit Windows version on it.
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  • Asterelle - Sanctuary_1381265973
    Asterelle - Sanctuary_1381265973 Posts: 7,881 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    3 ways
    1) Bootcamp - Boot into a real version of windows (fastest method, needs reboot, needs windows)
    2) Crossover Games - Uses a windows emulator (playable but a bit slower with some graphics glitches, no windows required, no reboot required)
    3) Parallels Desktop - Runs windows in virtual machine (same speed as crossover, no graphics glitches, requires windows, no reboot required)
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  • Manakel - Lost City
    Manakel - Lost City Posts: 131 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    Mind you, these are the legal ways- illegal we can't discuss. On these forums at least.
  • Summer_Blush - Heavens Tear
    Summer_Blush - Heavens Tear Posts: 1,187 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    pm me and il link you to a safe but illegal version of XP i can give u b:mischievous
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  • Deora - Lost City
    Deora - Lost City Posts: 1,086 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    Manakel - Lost City wrote: »
    Mind you, these are the legal ways- illegal we can't discuss. On these forums at least.

    No... PWI is a Windows application, there are no other ways to get it to run on Linux/Macintosh
  • Mirko - Raging Tide
    Mirko - Raging Tide Posts: 220 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    Asterelle - Sanctuary wrote: »
    2) Crossover Games - Uses a windows emulator (playable but a bit slower with some graphics glitches, no windows required, no reboot required)

    i use this combination on my office mac.. it is slower, it has glitches, but i use it only for catshop so i dont care..

    but dual boot looks more stable to me..
  • Samaela - Dreamweaver
    Samaela - Dreamweaver Posts: 426 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    -goes off to make a tutorial on how to do it with Wine-

    Wine is even completley free b:victory
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  • NightRage - Raging Tide
    NightRage - Raging Tide Posts: 1,582 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    Solution: Buy a computer.
  • Promivius - Dreamweaver
    Promivius - Dreamweaver Posts: 278 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    I recently bought a MacPro too (1 with an i7 and 8GB RAM as I prefer Windows 7 x64 above Vista x86/x64 or XP for that matter).

    To make sure you don't get any issue's with bootcamp running Windows 7 make sure to update your MacOS X software (Apple Software update + firmware update) else you might run into a BSoD during installation.

    Use Bootcamp drivers 3.1 from your Snow Leopard DVD if you have it. If it comes with 3.0 get the .exe from the web to upgrade it to version 3.1.

    Btw apart from Parallels as hyper visor you might wanna try VMware Fusion too.
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  • WarrenWolfy - Sanctuary
    WarrenWolfy - Sanctuary Posts: 1,686 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    Deora - Lost City wrote: »
    No... PWI is a Windows application, there are no other ways to get it to run on Linux/Macintosh
    WINE

    Completely Free. Completely Legal. No copy of Windows required.

    PWI runs just fine on my Linux box, and WINE is also available for Mac OS X. It's a bit on the tech-savvy side, though.
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  • Deora - Lost City
    Deora - Lost City Posts: 1,086 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    WarrenWolfy - Sanctuary wrote: »
    WINE

    Completely Free. Completely Legal. No copy of Windows required.

    PWI runs just fine on my Linux box, and WINE is also available for Mac OS X. It's a bit on the tech-savvy side, though.

    I was replying to
    Manakel - Lost City wrote: »
    Mind you, these are the legal ways- illegal we can't discuss. On these forums at least.

    Which was in response to
    Asterelle - Sanctuary wrote: »
    3 ways
    1) Bootcamp - Boot into a real version of windows (fastest method, needs reboot, needs windows)
    2) Crossover Games - Uses a windows emulator (playable but a bit slower with some graphics glitches, no windows required, no reboot required)
    3) Parallels Desktop - Runs windows in virtual machine (same speed as crossover, no graphics glitches, requires windows, no reboot required)

    Which contains
    2) Crossover Games - Uses a windows emulator (playable but a bit slower with some graphics glitches, no windows required, no reboot required)

    Which is based on WINE


    I do know about Wine... I run quite a lot of Linux installs and have been using it since it barely supported anything...
  • WarrenWolfy - Sanctuary
    WarrenWolfy - Sanctuary Posts: 1,686 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    Deora - Lost City wrote: »
    Which is based on WINE

    I do know about Wine... I run quite a lot of Linux installs and have been using it since it barely supported anything...
    I've never heard of "Crossover Games", probably because it's a commercial product and I'd rather play a F2P game for free.

    Telling somebody there are no other ways to run PWI other than to use a commercial product, when there's a perfectly good free option as well seemed like a huge omission, hence my response.

    - EDIT -

    Hmm... Just did a Google search for "Crossover Games", and I notice that they showcase their product by showing it running Team Fortress 2 and other Valve games. Um... those games have been out for Mac OS X for 4 months now and anybody who bought the Windows versions was given immediate free copies of the Mac OS X versions as well. So my guess is that "based on the latest version of WINE" is purely marketing hype.
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