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I sent GoG an email last week asking their support guys if this website supports MAC computers, but nobody ever responded!! Does any one out there know for sure if this website DOES or DOES NOT support MAC? If not, they are driving business away because I refuse to buy anything with windows anymore (they blow donkey balls). Please someone who knows help me out! Thanks

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DarrkPhoenix

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All games here are only officially supported for WinXP, Vista, and in some cases Win7. Some games work on Linux with Wine, but that's not officially supported. As far as I know the games will not work with OSX, so Mac users are out of luck (unless you're dual-booting Windows).

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Wow, so polite. Also, to my knowledge, "Mac" is not an abbreviation (in this context), so you don't need to all-caps it.
As for Mac support: There is a nice thread on this board that provides more detail that I would have searched for if you hadn't tried to start a flamewar. But, in a nutshell:
If you have a way to extract the files from the installer:
DOS games and SCUMM games work, just grab the appropriate emulator.
Everything else, you probably are going to have trouble getting to run.

Post edited September 02, 2010 by Gundato

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Well, for starters your question was poorly worded. Of course the "website" supports Mac computers, you just open the URL on Safari or whatever browser you use on your Mac. If you mean if the games run on Mac I guess the "Compatible with Windows XP & Windows Vista (32 & 64 bit)" (and sometimes 7) in every game page wasn't enough indication that the games only run on those OS.
You could use Wine or BootCamp but neither are officially supported by GOG.

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Ahem, let me be the first to say "Filthy Macs are no welcome here at all get lost and get a PC! Macs suck, RAGH!!"
Sorry, couldn't resist. ;) DarkPhoenix and Gundato pretty much cover it, sorry dude.

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Posted September 02, 2010

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thuddles42: I sent GoG an email last week asking their support guys if this website supports MAC computers, but nobody ever responded!! Does any one out there know for sure if this website DOES or DOES NOT support MAC? If not, they are driving business away because I refuse to buy anything with windows anymore (they blow donkey balls). Please someone who knows help me out! Thanks

In terms of community, why do we need to welcome computers? Doesn't make sense. Computers can't really make or take a joke. They just kind of stare at you funny.
Anyway, as said before:
DOS games (Rise of the Triad etc) will run in DOSBox. Boxer is some kind of Mac'd up frontend for it.
Most adventure games on the site (Beneath a Steel Sky, Broken Sword 2) will run in ScummVM.
Win32 games will not. Unless you have some kind of Windows emulator, boot camp or other such program.

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thuddles42: windows anymore (they blow donkey balls).

Apart from the fact that they run faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar more games than mac does. And have you noticed the whole "hey everybody, great news, our games are now mac supported" like it's an announcement worthy of a parade. I guess the fact that you need special treatment is more of a blow donkey balls-ish that just getting the F-ing windows.

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Someone needs to learn the difference between driving business away and not going after a niche of a niche market.
There are very few gamers that run OSX that refuse to Boot Camp, and even less that are interested in classic games. It doesn't make business sense to spend the resources on it.
The most you could hope for is a zip or tarball of the files so you didn't have to extract with the windows installer.

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thuddles42: windows anymore (they blow donkey balls).

Titanium: Apart from the fact that they run faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar more games than mac does. And have you noticed the whole "hey everybody, great news, our games are now mac supported" like it's an announcement worthy of a parade. I guess the fact that you need special treatment is more of a blow donkey balls-ish that just getting the F-ing windows.

Don't forget the announcement that a service pack would ONLY cost 30 bucks was cheered by apple fans...

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No. Not at all.

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wodmarach: Don't forget the announcement that a service pack would ONLY cost 30 bucks was cheered by apple fans...

Uh. I paid lots more for the "service pack" from XP to Windows 7.

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wodmarach: Don't forget the announcement that a service pack would ONLY cost 30 bucks was cheered by apple fans...

BoxOfSnoo: Uh. I paid lots more for the "service pack" from XP to Windows 7.

with OSX you get less per "upgrade" than you do in your average windows SP lifetime if windows was OSX you'd be on your 9th (i think) upgrade not 3rd as it is now and each level of windows has had massive changes (ok in windows 7 they were almost completely hidden but they were massive)

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Sielle: Someone needs to learn the difference between driving business away and not going after a niche of a niche market.
There are very few gamers that run OSX that refuse to Boot Camp, and even less that are interested in classic games. It doesn't make business sense to spend the resources on it.
The most you could hope for is a zip or tarball of the files so you didn't have to extract with the windows installer.

yep what's apple have like 5% of the US personal computer market share?

Post edited September 02, 2010 by akwater

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BoxOfSnoo: with OSX you get less per "upgrade" than you do in your average windows SP lifetime if windows was OSX you'd be on your 9th (i think) upgrade not 3rd as it is now and each level of windows has had massive changes (ok in windows 7 they were almost completely hidden but they were massive)

wodmarach: Yeah you clearly aren't an OSX user. The comparison between Windows versions and Mac OS versions is pretty much equivalent. (oh and "OS 10.6" might give you a hint as to how many versions there have been... at $100 per version, probably slightly cheaper than Windows over that same timeframe: 2001-present )
There are also pretty massive changes in OSX releases (Snow Leopard alone introduced some massive CPU scheduling and OpenCL updates, loads of 64-bit rewrites),
The point is, calling Leopard to Snow Leopard a service pack is as retarded as calling XP to Windows 7 a service pack. (I skipped Vista, cause, well, so did everybody else :) ) Win7 was definitely worth the cost to upgrade, and so was Snow Leopard.

Post edited September 02, 2010 by BoxOfSnoo

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To be honest, I don't understand why there's no Mac versions of the working DOS / ScummVM games, since the engines used to run them (DOSBox, ScummVM) have working Apple OS ports.
I suppose it's a matter of licensing.