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Edit: Bumped post before i could type the content of the post:P. Anyways, i recently (like, yesterday) switched to a Mac for reasons beyond my control, and i was wondering if there was a way to get Steam running well on it for free. I found the program Crossover, but it costs money to use it for anything longer than a month, and if i use boot camp i'd have to partition my hard drive, and i cant really do that, because isn't that really hard if not impossible to reverse? I can't leave anything permanently changed on this computer, so my question is to you: How can I get Steam working on my Mac for free, that won't leave anything permanently altered on the computer. Bonus question: Macbook 2.1 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 1GB Ram 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM Is it worth the effort to try?
I'll pretty much only be playing TF2, Mass Effect, and Deus Ex on it, so even if only one of them will work, that is good enough for me to try. Well I at least know this. You need to be able to emulate a windows or linux OS to run steam.
The best long term solution is to get bootcamp and get yourself vista or Xp because if your computer is as new as you say reformating or at least getting an external hard drive would be best but you want to have it one your main or performance hard drive. I do know there are quite a bit of Mac users on these forums but I just do not have bootcamp on my mac. Do you think that I could put boot camp with Windows Xp on my USB External Harddrive, and it would work ok? Would the USB be too slow for it to work ok? I had Morrowind on it for a while, and that worked fine, but i'd say that TF2, HL2, and Mass Effect are just a bit more complex than Morrowind. I'd prefer it if there were no more 'Just buy a PC' replies.
I said before, i had to change to a Mac for reasons beyond my control, and it just so happens that i prefer PCs. This computer is a long-term borrow, so i can't leave anything irreversible on it (partitioning the hard-drive, etc.) Besides, if i can't afford to buy Crossover, how could i afford to buy a new computer? I don't have the Leopard CD for this computer, the person who owns the computer does, so i can't do Bootcamp unless there is a way to do it without using the Leopard CD to get the drivers.
Edit: Bumped post before i could type the content of the post:P. Anyways, i recently (like, yesterday) switched to a Mac for reasons beyond my control, and i was wondering if there was a way to get Steam running well on it for free. I found the program Crossover, but it costs money to use it for anything longer than a month, and if i use boot camp i'd have to partition my hard drive, and i cant really do that, because isn't that really hard if not impossible to reverse? I can't leave anything permanently changed on this computer, so my question is to you: How can I get Steam working on my Mac for free, that won't leave anything permanently altered on the computer. Bonus question: Macbook 2.1 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 1GB Ram 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM Is it worth the effort to try?
I'll pretty much only be playing TF2, Mass Effect, and Deus Ex on it, so even if only one of them will work, that is good enough for me to try. Partitioning is easier to reverse than set up. You just click to kill the Windows and it does. Might as well try it if possible EDIT: Ah, I don't think it is possible without the drivers. Is it worth the effort to try? Games are always worth it to try =) That'd be the better way to do it. Your graphics card would actually be able to handle it.
Is steam even available for Macs? The video cards in macs are actually surprisingly good (part of the reason they cost so much, I'd presume). And I don't know of any way to get Steam on a mac that will let you play the games. I'm not sure if partitioning is permanent, I certainly haven't heard of it being so until I read your post Kinda. You can't re-partition (resize) a windows partition without having to re-install windows. But if you ever get sick of windows you can EASILY erase the partition and give the space back to your Macintosh partition I would say just buy a hard copy I'll pretty much only be playing TF2, Mass Effect, and Deus Ex on it, so even if only one of them will work, that is good enough for me to try.
Do those even come on Macs? Not that I know of, and even if they did you'd have to buy a mac version of them anyway. Do you think that I could put boot camp with Windows Xp on my USB External Harddrive, and it would work ok?
Would the USB be too slow for it to work ok? I had Morrowind on it for a while, and that worked fine, but i'd say that TF2, HL2, and Mass Effect are just a bit more complex than Morrowind. There are ways, but I wouldn't try it. You need to run wine. Crossover is basically a userfriendly packaged version of wine. You ned to download and install the latest Xcode Tools (about 1GB), then get, follow the instructions on their site to download and install it.
Then install wine via macports. There are plenty of googleable guides for getting wine up and running on intel based macs. Darwine might also be worth giving a look. Never heard of trying that before but I think you know alot more than I do in this sense. So in conclusion HydraZulu, your best bet is to go through boot camp and install Windows on it as well.
You can get free copies of while it's still in Beta. I have it on my Macbook Pro and runs beautifully with all the games I've tried so far. The parition can be erased easily when you're done. As for the boot camp drivers? They're not too hard to get. Message me and I can link you (I'm concerned about the legallity of public forums with certain links).
Good luck and I hope I've helped =). I'd prefer it if there were no more 'Just buy a PC' replies. I said before, i had to change to a Mac for reasons beyond my control, and it just so happens that i prefer PCs. This computer is a long-term borrow, so i can't leave anything irreversible on it (partitioning the hard-drive, etc.) Besides, if i can't afford to buy Crossover, how could i afford to buy a new computer?
I don't have the Leopard CD for this computer, the person who owns the computer does, so i can't do Bootcamp unless there is a way to do it without using the Leopard CD to get the drivers. Is it worth the effort to try? Games are always worth it to try =) That'd be the better way to do it. Your graphics card would actually be able to handle it. Is steam even available for Macs?
The video cards in macs are actually surprisingly good (part of the reason they cost so much, I'd presume). And I don't know of any way to get Steam on a mac that will let you play the games. I'm not sure if partitioning is permanent, I certainly haven't heard of it being so until I read your post Kinda. You can't re-partition (resize) a windows partition without having to re-install windows.
But if you ever get sick of windows you can EASILY erase the partition and give the space back to your Macintosh partition I would say just buy a hard copy I'll pretty much only be playing TF2, Mass Effect, and Deus Ex on it, so even if only one of them will work, that is good enough for me to try. Do those even come on Macs? Not that I know of, and even if they did you'd have to buy a mac version of them anyway.
Do you think that I could put boot camp with Windows Xp on my USB External Harddrive, and it would work ok? Would the USB be too slow for it to work ok?
I had Morrowind on it for a while, and that worked fine, but i'd say that TF2, HL2, and Mass Effect are just a bit more complex than Morrowind. There are ways, but I wouldn't try it. You need to run wine. Crossover is basically a userfriendly packaged version of wine. You ned to download and install the latest Xcode Tools (about 1GB), then get, follow the instructions on their site to download and install it. Then install wine via macports. There are plenty of googleable guides for getting wine up and running on intel based macs.
Darwine might also be worth giving a look. Never heard of trying that before but I think you know alot more than I do in this sense.
So in conclusion HydraZulu, your best bet is to go through boot camp and install Windows on it as well. You can get free copies of while it's still in Beta. I have it on my Macbook Pro and runs beautifully with all the games I've tried so far. The parition can be erased easily when you're done.
As for the boot camp drivers? They're not too hard to get. Message me and I can link you (I'm converned about the legallity of public forums with certain links).
Good luck and I hope I've helped =) You helped a lot. Gave me lots to think about. Are you sure that if you make a new partition you will be able to remove it with no side effects? I know i was researching putting a new partition on my windows computer (R.I.P.), and all the sources i found said that the only way to get rid of it is to reformat, if that will even do it. This is a borrowed computer that i may have for a while, may not, but the endgame will inevitably be me returning it, and i have to return it how i got it, so i cannot make any permanent changes to it.
The most obvious option (if you can afford it) would be to buy the new aluminum Mac (using one right now, very nice) that have graphics chips that can actually handle games and to be frank boot camp is the best option for Inter WIndows-Mac OSX gaming. I'd prefer it if there were no more 'Just buy a PC' replies. To be perfectly honest, if i could afford a new computer, I would buy/build a Windows PC, and use the money i saved from buying a Mac to upgrade the computer. I do prefer Windows.
I also find it ironic that one of the top 5 experts in Windows in my school (me) is one of the only people currently with a Mac in the school. You helped a lot. Gave me lots to think about. Are you sure that if you make a new partition you will be able to remove it with no side effects?
I know i was researching putting a new partition on my windows computer (R.I.P.), and all the sources i found said that the only way to get rid of it is to reformat, if that will even do it. This is a borrowed computer that i may have for a while, may not, but the endgame will inevitably be me returning it, and i have to return it how i got it, so i cannot make any permanent changes to it. I've been playing with various sizes and types of Windows on my Macbook Pro for over a year now, and the mac side has always worked fine without any changes (except the amount of space, of course). Your research is right, but only for Windows computers. With a mac, you can resize the partition of the computer and make a new partition (presumably for Windows) and keep using your mac parition just fine. This is essentially what boot camp does. However that's not the case with windows partitions.
The size of a Windows partition cannot be re-sized without removing (and deleting all information) and re-making the partition. So essentially yes, you can re-parition your macbook and put Windows on it with no permanent effect. It takes less than 30 seconds to remove the Windows partition if you so choose and give the space back to the mac partition (making the hard drive into one big partition, the way it was setup originally).
Feel free to message, e-mail, or IM me and I'd be happy to help you out. EDIT: Make sure you have an intel-based mac first, of course.
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