Comments on: Parallels Desktop 3.0 plans 3D graphics support

By: John Gamble

John Gamble — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:07:03 +0000

Yeah I think the comments about Cider are a bogie, as another user stated… it’s for developers, and a cider-based game will just look like an OS X app, check out http://www.transgaming.com for more info.

Maybe he meant Crossover, which is still far from perfect. I think Parallels will have better compatibility as it runs the entire OS.

By: Ralf D. Johnson

Ralf D. Johnson — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 19:21:32 +0000

@ merlijn: How exactly do you use Cider to run Windows games? Got any tutorial?

As I’ve understood it Cider is a framework for porting Windows games to Mac, used by the game developer.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 18:21:33 +0000

Sorry if I’m asking a noob question, but is there some kind of virtual machine program to run Mac in Windows?

By: me

me — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 16:01:09 +0000

hum this 3d support is going to be nice altought i prefer atm virtualbox, i got both installed but VB is just faster

By: nailed

nailed — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 14:31:01 +0000

Quake 4 looks a lot Half-life 2.

By: merlijn

merlijn — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 13:23:10 +0000

If you really want to play games on a mac (or linux for that matter), use Cider. Getting a full-blown windows system on top of OSX is just insane as you can work with a completely stripped 40mb mini build of win98 or win2k on Cider.

For the rest I love parallels especially since now your images are easily movable to linux or windoze since it is supported now as well.