MagicEngine

airzonk81

So I'm now even more convinced my next computer will be a MacBook Pro, now that there is an official way to dual-boot Windows (believe it or not, one oh my main reasons for keeping a PC as my primary desktop is for MagicEngine)...

Has anyone booted into WinXP using Apple's new BootCamp software, and if so, how does ME perform? As well as I'd expect...? =]

DaemonTools working well, etc etc...?

Looking forward to hearing your experiences...

I'm hoping there will be a VMware-style virtualization product for Mac OS X which will allow booting another OS from *within* Mac OS X....without the peformance penalty of having to emulate the x86 architecture, this time. Smile

Happy Gaming,
Gabe

Tomaitheous · Elder Joined: 27 Sep 2005 Posts: 306 Location: Tucson

I haven't been keeping up on the Mac side of things lately, but even if you have an x86 processor, don't you still need to emulate the south/north bride and other hardware that's PC specific?
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airzonk81 · Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 6:10 am Post subject:

Correct me if I'm wrong; but the only significant difference between the intel Macs and a standard-issue PC is the use of EFI instead of a traditional PC BIOS. There are probably a lot of other subtle things but basically it's a PC--all standard issue PC components, including graphics, sound, I/O, etc. chipsets...

BootCamp (as I understand) basically just provides intel Mac owners with a mechanism to burn all the appropriate drivers to a disc which can be used at install time, and preps EFI to emulate a standard PC BIOs for windows, or maybe apple uses a licensed bios(?)

Can't wait to get my hands on one of these myself...

-G

Jabberwok · Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 3:47 am Post subject:

But, if these new Macs can run Windows then why pay the "Apple premium price"? just stick with what works Wink

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Tomaitheous · Elder Joined: 27 Sep 2005 Posts: 306 Location: Tucson

The only reason I still need a Mac OS is for Final Cut pro 4. Are they going to release a PC compatible version of Mac OS along side the Apple intel-box version?
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r0ni · Member Joined: 03 Oct 2005 Posts: 32

Slightly off-topic but ME does run full speed through Virtual PC 7 on a ppc OSX machine.

While, a native release would be nice, I keep VPC7 installed with win98 to use a few windows apps I no longer have access to on OSX and I was very surprised to see how well ME ran on it.

Since the release of Boot Camp and Apple's switch to x86, I wonder if this will speed up or put an end to the OSX version of ME?

rolins · Visitor Joined: 21 May 2005 Posts: 15 Location: California

Well, you could also use Mednafen. It runs natively on OSX and it's darn fast.