Im sure its been asked before but I havnt been on these forums for over 2 years, so am a bit behind :cool:.
Does anyone know if/when there is going to be a mac version of MTGO? I dont play many tournemants and havnt done for a while, but I think playing online would get me back into it more.
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Edit: Make that more than 2 years, im not quite sure, but a while.
Not gonna happen any time soon. Sorry. Since Macs have Intel processors, they are just expensive PCs anymore so you can just dual boot if you really want to play mtgo.
Not gonna happen any time soon. Sorry. Since Macs have Intel processors, they are just expensive PCs anymore so you can just dual boot if you really want to play mtgo.
Sadly, true. This is pretty close to Wizard's official position on the matter from what I've seen on their boards. Which really annoys me, to be honest, because people don't seem to realize that "just dual boot" typically implies buying a second operating system...which ain't exactly cheap when that operating system is Windows. (And of course if your Mac is a older model, say one with a PowerPC G4 chip, then you're stuck with emulators which are just as pricey and don't work as well.)
If you already have Windows installed on your Intel Mac, then that's another story, but buying Windows just to run MTGO isn't a realistic solution for most people.
MTGO2.5 runs fine in crossover, which is pretty cheap and doesn't require a windows install. I am not sure about the status of 3.0 in crossover tho, the beta didn't work.
Parallels and VMWare are quite inexpensive and it is usually pretty easy to find old Windows 98/XP install disks for cheap on craigslist or elsewhere.
MTGO3 runs fine for me in VMWare. It is a little weird in Parallels due to the gfx requirements.
The more-or-less official word on Macs for MTGO is that it just isn't worth it for a niche market (Magic) to focus on what is still considered a niche market in computers. There was some talk of it before the OSX86 announcement a couple years ago, but once that announcement hit (plus when it was realized that MTGOv3 was written in C#), pretty much most of the mac hope went away with that.
byron: I've never used Crossover before, but I'd assume that it would have problems with the .NET libraries that v3 uses.
Not gonna happen any time soon. Sorry. Since Macs have Intel processors, they are just better PCs that don't have to be replaced every three years because windows ruins hardware anymore so you can just dual boot if you really want to play mtgo.
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Run it on Parallels or that other one that is the same as Parallels. 2.5 worked perfectly, hopefully 3.0 will. If GFX is a problem just turn it off (I really hope you can just turn it off).
When I was fooling around with v3 + macs over the past summer, I could turn on software rendering (a.k.a. turn off anti-aliasing) and it worked just fine.
Yeah Bradley - V3 runs fine in sw rendering on Parallels (looks stunningly ugly though) and I can get it to run in DX9/hardware mode on VMWare, haven't tried to do that in Parallels yet.
I would have to agree. I used the trial for both VMWare and Parallels, and while both performed well, I ended up going with VMWare when it came time to purchase. Modo works fine on it (well, as well as it works at all these days).
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Does anyone know if/when there is going to be a mac version of MTGO? I dont play many tournemants and havnt done for a while, but I think playing online would get me back into it more.
Cheers
Edit: Make that more than 2 years, im not quite sure, but a while.
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Sadly, true. This is pretty close to Wizard's official position on the matter from what I've seen on their boards. Which really annoys me, to be honest, because people don't seem to realize that "just dual boot" typically implies buying a second operating system...which ain't exactly cheap when that operating system is Windows. (And of course if your Mac is a older model, say one with a PowerPC G4 chip, then you're stuck with emulators which are just as pricey and don't work as well.)
If you already have Windows installed on your Intel Mac, then that's another story, but buying Windows just to run MTGO isn't a realistic solution for most people.
Parallels and VMWare are quite inexpensive and it is usually pretty easy to find old Windows 98/XP install disks for cheap on craigslist or elsewhere.
MTGO3 runs fine for me in VMWare. It is a little weird in Parallels due to the gfx requirements.
byron: I've never used Crossover before, but I'd assume that it would have problems with the .NET libraries that v3 uses.
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Run it on Parallels or that other one that is the same as Parallels. 2.5 worked perfectly, hopefully 3.0 will. If GFX is a problem just turn it off (I really hope you can just turn it off).
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