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GayGamer has nice news about MacGaming, it seems.
I have good news for Mac gamers. TransGaming Technologies recently introduced Cider, which will enable publishers to quickly bring PC games to the Mac. The conversion process used to be a messy ordeal, taking months. Now Cider takes care of the code conversion, which will eventually enable publishers to release a PC game and the cider-ized Mac version simultaneously.
I grabbed a MacBook Pro recently, and haven't installed BootCamp yet, so any news on this topic is good news. Unfortunately it seems people are being a little overzealous, as the app looks like it functions largely as an emulator.
"We are delivering a transparent Mac game play experience to the end consumer," Mr. State said. "Cider-enabled titles are just as native as any other Mac game on an Intel-based Mac. There is no virtualization or similar step involved — Cider loads the game directly into memory and executes the code, which means it is running directly in Mac OS X. The game simply relies on Cider's implementation of the Win32 and DirectX APIs (Application Programming Interfaces), instead of those found in Windows."
I'm not a coder by any stretch, but this sounds akin to emulation to me. I'm extremely dubious. Eliza Gauger
Cider [GayGamer]
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