Hi, Actually, Fusion is not a Windows emulator. They are installing Windows into a virtual machine and run Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 7 side by side with Mac OS as a guest operating system via Fusion. This isn't the same thing as actually running the game directly from Mac OS itself.
I can make the same argument that your games run on Linux because of VM Player or Virtualbox. However, what I'd really be saying is a person still needs to purchase Windows, install it on a virtual drive, and run it as a guest OS of Linux. That's not exactly the same as running it on Linux itself. As you can probably see this is the issue people are getting at when they talk about running game x on Mac OS or Linux. In addition to the OS they already have you expect them to install Fusion, Virtualbox, whatever and spend $125 or more for a copy of Windows to install it side by side with the op on the machine. Not exactly an ideal setup as it cost as much money to maintain a Windows setup using Fusion or whatever as it is to go out and buy a computer with Windows on it for that same purpose. I don't know how much experience you have with VM software but it is not an emulator. VM software is simply software that creates a virtual drive, a swap file in most cases, where the guest operating system gets installed. To run the guest operating system you start the VM software, tell it which virtual OS to load, and it boots into that OS, and runs it on top of the host operating system. Doing this requires quiet a bit of processor power, memory, and drive space as you end up running both operating systems in memory at the same time. HTH On 7/17/11, Jeremy Kaldobsky <jer...@kaldobsky.com> wrote: > Actually I have mac players. They just use VMware Fusion as a windows > emulator. From what I'm told, the games all run without any problems. > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. > --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
