It's possible gog will release mac versions (PC version in wine or dosbox wrapper) later.
No doubt the main effort right now is getting the PC versions out.

Exactly - too many hoops to jump through to get the Mac versions running. It's easier to find an old Mac in the classifieds than to try to get things going on a modern one.

Use Boxer for the DOS versions included. That works fine on Mac. It's too bad the Collectors' edition CD-ROM version wasn't released, it works fine with Boxer as well.

The Windows 95 special editions were never released for Mac, so that's not going to change. There were Mac versions of the Collectors' CD-ROMs of both X-Wing and TIE-Fighter released by LucasArts, but they only worked on Mac OS 8 and it is far beyond the ability of gog.com to get them to work on modern Macs (or any modern OS for that matter) unfortunately.
Regrettably Rosetta doesn't work at all on the Macintosh releases of X-Wing and TIE-Fighter. Mac OS 9 doesn't even work.

It's System 7 or Mac OS 8 or nothing. Sadly.

It looks I'll have to get a virtual PC application and a Window OS CD to get my imac (3.4 GHz Intel Core is with 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3) running and allow me to play PC version of X-wing and TIE- Fighter.

Which Virtual PC application WOULD you recommend for my imac?

Thanks

I haven't bought either of these yet, but others are saying that the DOS versions are included with your purchase, so you could easily run these in Boxer or DOSBox on a Mac. Boxer is the easy solution as you don't have to worry about typing into the DOS command line.

Someone was trying to do this earlier - see THIS thread to get the DOS versions working on your Mac.

As far as Windows versions go, I would assume that you could get them going in Wineskin - may just take some tweaking.

Not read the thread, but has anyone explained to him that MacOS in the 90s was a completely different operating system, not to mention the computers having completely different architecture? The Mac versions released in the 90s do not work on modern Macs.

So calm the hell down, because melodramatic and whiny threads do not help your cause.


EDIT: Don't bother buying windows, load the DOS versions in Boxer.

Play the DOS versions on your iMac, use Boxer - no need to make things more complex than absolutely necessary ;)

For playing Windows games on Macs I heartily recommend, Wineskin Winery (completely free), PlayonMac (free), and CrossOver (free trial, actual version has a pricetag). Wineskin wrapper building requires the most finagling, however it is also the most customizable, and really, really easy to do once you get the hang of it. Wine opens up an insane amount of games that are traditionally Windows-only. PlayonMac is hit or miss. CrossOver costs money, but has far less fiddling than Wine. There are also tons of Wineskin wrappers already made, that you simply download and install the game to. is a very solid source for a lot of the common games, with walkthrough video tutorials of how to install the games. The Port Database over at the [url=http://portingteam.com/files/]PortingTeam.com is also a wonderful library of ports. For extremely popular games such as these, if there are no wrappers that currently work there will almost certainly be ones that do in a day or so.

The Dos versions will work fine on mac not sure about the win95+ versions. I don't know how well they work with Wine. As much as I'd like to see Mac version if the reason they don't have them is because they are offering both versions(which is the dream I had coming true) I'm fine with making them work on my own.

It's more of a hardware issue. Macs back then used their own proprietary hardware. These days they're just Intel PCs with Mac OS installed on them. So a modern Mac has more in common with a 1990s IBM compatible than it does with a Mac of the same age.

Melhelix

MEGA THANKS to Melhelix because I downloaded CrossOver earlier today. I was and am certainly very impressed with the CrossOver application which allowed me to play Star wars X-wing and TIE fighter games!

However there is a NIGGLING problem as the Star Wars X-wing (1998) and TIE-fighter would not allow me to play unless I have a joystick on in my imac.

I have searched for a solution and came over to an application called Joystick Mapper which will allow me to use X-BOX 360/PSX3 controllers to play games on my imac.

However I do not know if this would allow me to play PC games on the crossover with the joystick application.

Please advise me if you can.

Many thanks

The Windows versions of the X WIng/Tie Fighter games always required a Joystick for play. So it's something inherent in the design, regardless of which OS you are using.

The joystick is the real challenge. I purchased X-Wing and X-Wing Alliance.

Meanwhile I managed to play X-Wing under DOSBox (using the 1994 version officially from here: https://archive.org/details/Star_Wars_-_X-Wing_Collectors_CD-ROM_1994_LucasArts_). I use the $5 app Controllers to map mouse controls from the right stick of my PS3 gamepad in order to have some fine control within the game (otherwise a gamepad isn't a good choice for X-Wing - you would need a real joystick). So under DOSBox I have X-Wing running well on OS X.

The Windows versions of X-Wing and X-Wing Alliance however still don't recognise the joystick within my Wine wrappers and without joystick support the games just don't work. It seems quite a challenge to get joystick support under Wine and especially for X-Wing/X-Wing Alliance. Also, I can't get the DirectX installer to run from the GOG version - it asks for the CD which isn't available.

Great news on this. The development branch of wine now supports winmm for OSX. This means that joysticks will work. ( You have to compile it yourself though until they release the next version and doh123 adds it as a wineskin engine. Version to look for is 1.7.39) The only issue now is the flickering for the main menu. You can either go to winetricks and switch ddr from opengl to gdi, but this breaks hardware render.

The only way to have your cake and eat it is to use a crossover engine, but it will be a while before the patch makes its way into a crossover build. You can, of course, add the patch yourself. The code to crossover engine is freely available on their website. Be sure to take a look at the macports port for their patches to help compile it.

------

Which is what I did and made a wineskin engine out of it.

Other hurdles include:
1. Patching GoG version to enable 3d hardware (there is a thread on vogons forum with patches to all the xwing series).
2. Disable clearfix with xwahacker. GoG added it to XvT BoP (wine doesn't need it and makes the 3d render go wonky).
3. if wine crashes when all that is done when you try to launch a mission (like it did for me in Xwing95), switch wine to win95 mode.

I still have an issue with no music in X-Wing.... Not sure how to fix that yet.

Oh, this is a bug? I read a couple of posts on the web and it seems this is a game limitation (no music during missions).


I recently made the '98 version of X-Wing work in Wine under OS X with very little glitches:
http://portingteam.com/files/file/8234-star-wars-x-wing-1998/

Some more challenges and glitches on XWA:
http://portingteam.com/files/file/8220-star-wars-x-wing-alliance/