GameTap

Blorx · Post by **Blorx** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 12:23 am

Anyone use it? If not, they now have a fully free Mac Lite Player (they also have a Windows version, btw). I'm not sure about deluxe. I'm also not sure what Lite entails since I pay for the Deluxe player.

I wanna get a game of Metal Slug set up sometime, I know for sure that free users can play that.

Also, if you guys can play Die By the Sword, more power to ya, I'd love to face someone in that. The best part about this game is that you can have it set so that your mouse fully controls where the sword swings. I'm not sure you guys can play this with the Lite player, though.

Anyways, head on over to http://www.gametap.com and make an account so you can see what all you get.

Here's the link to the Mac download http://ll.g.gametap.com/static/client/i ... _setup.dmg

Lugaruman100 · Post by **Lugaruman100** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 12:54 am

Too bad gametap uses cider. If it didin't I would download it right now.

Blorx · Post by **Blorx** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 1:04 am

just to ask, what's the difference between using cider and not using it?

Lugaruman100 · Post by **Lugaruman100** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 1:51 am

Using cider basicly emulates a windows application, the catch is it relies on x86 type of hardware.

BunnyWithStick · Post by **BunnyWithStick** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 3:56 am

Like Wine for Darwin? I'm a bit pissed off after remembering how much I like the look of Garry's Mod… Stupid source engine…

Colicedus · Post by **Colicedus** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 7:26 am

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Nayr · Post by **Nayr** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 9:49 am

Cider is essentially wine. Different libraries, same concept.

[edit]Hence the name Cider

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From wikipedia:

Wikipedia wrote:Transgaming has also produced Cider, a Wine library for Apple-Intel architecture Macintoshes. Instead of being an end-user product, Cider (like Winelib) is a wrapper allowing developers to adapt their games to run natively on Intel Mac OS X without any changes in source code.

Now that's absurd; most games need source code changes. But, these changes will be minor and won't require recoding their entire backend and (possibly) frontend.

Renegade_Turner · Post by **Renegade_Turner** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 10:13 am

Lugaruman100 wrote:Using cider basicly emulates a windows application, the catch is it relies on x86 type of hardware.

Yeah and it gets you pretty drunk, so it's hard to use a computer and, like, type and stuff.

All this time and I never knew cider relied on x86 hardware.

Colicedus · Post by **Colicedus** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 6:28 pm

Lat time I was Drunk I threw up on my keyboard, and I had to get a replacement...

Lugaruman100 · Post by **Lugaruman100** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 3:39 pm

Renegade_Turner wrote:All this time and I never knew cider relied on x86 hardware.

And that is why mac users using G4s and 5s can't use it.

BunnyWithStick · Post by **BunnyWithStick** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 8:55 pm

Yes, he knows that… Read between teh linez please? Kthx.

The upside to having a PPC CPU is you can run ExtremelyOld™ things… Very very slowly…

Then again, they never used to run slowly in Classic…