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Posted April 23, 2013
Psychonauts, Torchlight, Wing Commander 3, and 19 other great games, classic and new, now for your Mac!

Our Mac gaming offer keeps on growing with the addition of a new or classic title every now and then, and our catalog of OS X compatible games has reached (and passed) 100-games milestone quite a while ago. Steady growth is not enough for us, though. We like to drop a content-bomb from time to time, adding a whole pack of Mac-compatible builds to the site. Well, boom! Today, such a pack arrives, with a collection of 22 exciting titles you can now download and play on your Mac! As usual, if you bought the Windows version in the past, you automatically gain access to the Mac version with no need of additional purchase. Let's take a look at the new arrivals, shall we?

7th Guest, a true milestone in gaming and a fascinating ghost story with fully-orchestrated soundtrack, for only $9.99 (now only $7.99!)

Cannon Fodder, a comedic classic top-down squad-based shooter with the tiniest soldiers fighting the biggest war, for only $5.99

Gemini Rue, a gritty neo-noir point-and-click adventure game masterfully mixing Sci-Fi and crime mystery genres, for only $9.99 (now only $7.99!)

Hocus Pocus, a spell-slinging 36-level serving of delightful classic platforming fun from the magical 1990s, for only $5.99

Populous 2: Trials of the Olympian Gods, a isometric god-game, in which you earn your place on Mount Olympus, for only $5.99

Primordia, a sci-fi point-and-click adventure game with enthralling story, multiple endings, and pixelated graphics, for $9.99 (now only $7.99!)

Psychonauts, an immensely original and funny action-adventure 3D platformer with surreal story and environment, for only $9.99

Sniper Elite: Berlin 1945, a realistic sharpshooter simulation set in the final dramatic days of the World War II, for only $9.99

Space Colony HD, the high-definition version of the futuristic cross between real time strategy and The Sims, for only $9.99

Stronghold Crusader HD, an epic castle sim RTS in which you lead armies up to 10k units to conquer the holy land, for only $9.99

Torchlight, a masterfully crafted fantasy hack-and-slash from the makers of Diablo (MP3 soundtrack included!), for only $14.99 (now only $11.99!)

Wing Commander 3: Heart of the Tiger, a mixture of excellent space-fighter sim and an excellent interactive movie, for only $5.99

All of the above, as well as the following titles: Crusader No Regret, Duke Nukem Manhattan Project, Ground Control 2: Special Edition, Lords of the Realm: Royal Edition 1+2, Pinball Gold Pack, , [url=http://www.gog.com/gamecard/stronghold]Stronghold HD, Total Annihilation Commander Pack, Total Annihilation Kingdoms, Ultima 8: Gold Edition, are available on both Windows and Mac OS X starting today. Once again we'd like to remind you, that if you purchased any of these games in the past, you now have access to the Mac-compatible version on GOG.com with no additional payment required! We'll keep on working to expand our Mac-centric offer (134 games now, and counting), so drop by frequently and check for new titles.
Posted April 23, 2013
To be more precise, the Windows games use Wineskin:
http://wineskin.urgesoftware.com/

Wineskin wraps everything up nicely so it looks like a real Mac app rather than a Windows app. If you didn't know you couldn't tell the difference. In fact, commercial games have been using something similar called Cider before Wineskin even existed.
Posted April 23, 2013
Thank you guys for continuing to add quality OS X ports! Unlike Valve you guys have shown that you actually care about OS X.

My one request: please add the Fez OS X version when it's done!
Posted April 23, 2013
Cool! Thanks GOG. :)
Post edited April 23, 2013 by crazy_dave
Posted April 23, 2013
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Cosmodeer: Thank you guys for continuing to add quality OS X ports! Unlike Valve you guys have shown that you actually care about OS X.

My one request: please add the Fez OS X version when it's done!
Why do you say that? Valve's OS X ports are crappy?
I know that their linux support has been incredible so far and their list of cross-platform games keeps on growing, which is nice.
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vicklemos: So some ports are only the windows version through wine? Is that it?
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cyboff: Most of them are dosbox or wine ports, some of them (usually new indie games) are native...
I get the dosbox emulation, but is it to shallow to ask that porting windows games to ''mac wine'' is ok, but when it comes to "linux wine'' things get messy?
Post edited April 23, 2013 by vicklemos
Posted April 23, 2013
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vicklemos: I get the dosbox emulation, but is it to shallow to ask that porting windows games to ''mac wine'' is ok, but when it comes to "linux wine'' things get messy?
IMHO they choose to start with macs first, just because there are only few hardware combinations, so it is much easier to test everything. After they gather some experience, they will come with linux support as well (I HOPE :D)
Posted April 23, 2013
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vicklemos: Can't you mac people post some videos and/or screenshots of gog-special-lovely games running?
As a non-Mac user, I'm rather curious!

Thanks!
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cyboff: GOG games are usually set to run in fullscreen mode, so they actually look and play the same way as windows versions, there is nothing more to show you :D
Installer is a little different, you just have to move your game from virtual disk to your harddrive... Here are examples how that "installers" (virtual disks) look like:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/klg8v86f9d9z6t2/lMtwsqrAzI
Thanks for the reply!
That's a totally newbie question here, but those apple displays REALLY make that much of a difference when it comes to gaming (when compared to regular displays)?
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vicklemos: I get the dosbox emulation, but is it to shallow to ask that porting windows games to ''mac wine'' is ok, but when it comes to "linux wine'' things get messy?
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cyboff: IMHO they choose to start with macs first, just because there are only few hardware combinations, so it is much easier to test everything. After they gather some experience, they will come with linux support as well (I HOPE :D)
Yep, I agree. I think gog will come up with something like steam did first, like ''ubuntu only'' (for now)
I hope for linux support too, bro. Gog will surely be the ONLY place for me -and for many others, believe me- when they begin to serve us with tasty linux games.
Post edited April 23, 2013 by vicklemos
Posted April 23, 2013
New Mac games are always welcomed here. Who said the Mac isnt right for gaming :P
Posted April 23, 2013
@vicklemos:
Yes indeed.
DOSBox'ed games come packed in a Windows Installer, which needs Wine to run it in a non-Windows X86 platform.
On that note, GOG, please try to keep the installers of your Windows games Wine-friendly.
Which means among other things to stay away from the .net-platform as a requirement to run your installers.
Right now, .net is a nightmare to install on 64-bits Linux systems. Just look at the winehq pages if you like horror stories...

Thankfully that is not the case right now and I see more and more templates on PlayOnLinux (Thanks contributors!) to run GOG games through a tweaked Wine Bottle. Nox, for instance, runs without a hitch :-D
I don't know how Darwine and similar variants on the MacOSX platform will fare here, since my Macbook2007 has an anemic intel GMA950 GPU which is unsuitable for just about any game with a hint of 3D :-S.
After Linux support is established, what will be next? The ARM-based platforms? Hmm, the anticipation...:-)
Posted April 23, 2013
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Magnitus: I don't see update indicators for them. It would be nice to as it would make us less dependent on religiously following the announcements to track updates.
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JMich: Yes. Especially as they announced it right after I was finally done redownloading everything, to remove redundant files. Will get you an updated database on Friday.
Take your time. No rush :).

Looking forward to finishing it on my end. About 35 games to go.

Then, I can do a merge :P.
Posted April 23, 2013
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vicklemos: That's a totally newbie question here, but those apple displays REALLY make that much of a difference when it comes to gaming (when compared to regular displays)?
I have an iMac, so I have a pretty good display. I think the current models have even better displays though. My screen has great colours and everything is evenly visible, so no colour changes at weird angles. My previous Mac, a MacBook, had a worse screen where only the centre of your view was properly coloured and above and below colours got "washed put". You could tilt the screen all day, only the part that was at the right angle looked good.

This screen however looks just great, even if you are looking at it from the side. However, the screen was built for work, not for gaming, so the refresh rate is only 60Hz. For most people that’s fine, but for those who like their fast-paced FPS to run on 120Hz monitors it won't be enough. Another problem is the gloss, when the screen is dark and it's bright outside my screen turns into a mirror. Again, no problem for work, but it makes games like Thief unplayable on sunny days, unless I crank up the gamma, which ruins the atmosphere.

There are also standalone displays from Apple, I guess they are about the same as the iMac or better, but those prices are really high. One cool feature is the integrated Thunderbold hub, you can plug a Thunderbolt cable from your screen into your Mac and then you plug all your USB and firewire devices or even other monitors into the monitor instead of plugging everything into the Mac. I never tried a cinema display myself and if the screen of my iMac wasn't integrated (or rather the iMac integrated to the screen) I'm not sure I would have bought one, simply because of the price. On the other hand, everyone who has seen my Mac is amazed by the display :)

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jorlin: I don't know how Darwine and similar variants on the MacOSX platform will fare here
Darwine is no longer being maintained, Wine is now avalable for OS X officially. In fact, there is now a native Mac driver, so we don't have to rely on the X window system anymore. For 3D games the Mac driver seems to actually have better performance than X11, but for 2D games it still needs to be worked on. It's getting better with each iteration.
Posted April 23, 2013
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Cosmodeer: Thank you guys for continuing to add quality OS X ports! Unlike Valve you guys have shown that you actually care about OS X.

My one request: please add the Fez OS X version when it's done!
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vicklemos: Why do you say that? Valve's OS X ports are crappy?
The ports are good but the Steam client is still terrible on OS X, plus GOG focuses on ports for older games unlike Valve. I gotta appreciate what Valve has done for Mac gaming though, before they ported Steam to OS X it was pretty much a wasteland. So I was a bit unfair in my post.
Post edited April 23, 2013 by Cosmodeer
Posted April 23, 2013
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htown1980: Awesome!! There are a few here that I actually don't already have and do want. Thanks gog, although I was hoping that we would get the mac versions of certain Telltale games...
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drpaulthetall: Check my site, you can use the gog.com games to install it into the wrappers and play it on your mac :)

ported from teltales series:
- Sam & Max Save the World
- Wallace and Grommit grand Adventures

and the rest are already released for the Mac by the publishers themselves
Hello Paulthetall, thank you for your post.

I do use your site, and I have even made a very modest financial contribution to it. I think you do great work!

I have bought most of the Telltale games that I want the most but am yet to play them. My backlog is such that I have planned to wait until mac ports/mac versions are released on gog before actually playing them. I will also wait until gog releases mac versions before buying the other Telltale games I am interested in (I like to think that it sends a message that we actually want mac versions).

I generally only buy games now from gog that have mac ports/mac versions, unless I want it heaps, and then I do tend to use your site. I also recommend anyone else looking for mac ports check it out.

Keep up the great work :)
Posted April 23, 2013
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JMich: Some people will be happy :)
Now where's today's release(s)?
+1 :P
Posted April 24, 2013
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Cosmodeer: The ports are good but the Steam client is still terrible on OS X, plus GOG focuses on ports for older games unlike Valve. I gotta appreciate what Valve has done for Mac gaming though, before they ported Steam to OS X it was pretty much a wasteland. So I was a bit unfair in my post.
To be fair, the Steam client is simply terrible overall, regardless of operating system.
Posted April 24, 2013
oopsie, wrong thread, sorry!
Post edited April 24, 2013 by Neurus_Ex
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