An independent look at games for Mac
I spoke with Chris Plush and Campbell Barton, two long haired, clever fellows working on the development of the open source game Yo! Frankie. Based on the open source movie (see a theme developing?) Big Buck Bunny, players will follow the evil Frankie “unleashed in a natural world teeming with innocent wildlife, all subject to his whimsical bullying”. Great, eh?
I had a chat with Jon Parshall, Chief Operating Officer of CodeWeavers, about their marvelous product CrossOver for Mac. Based on Wine, CrossOver allows Windows applications (including games) to run under Mac and Linux without Windows. In contrast to solutions like VMWare and Parallels that use an installed, genuine version of Windows, CrossOver is an implementation of the technologies in Windows. CrossOver doesn’t load a second operating system alongside your current operating system, just what is needed to make a program work.
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