BZ2 on a Mac?

[VSMIT]

I recently purchased a Macbook, and was wondering if there were any hoops I had to jump through to get BZ2 to work.  Short of partitioning the HDD and installing XP.

Thank you in advance,

VSMIT.

[Sonic]

You bought a Mac...and you expect BZ2 or any decent software/game to run on it?

* Sonic runs off to the kitchen for water to help stop the maniac laughing

[CmptrWz]

Step 1: Return the macbook
Step 2: Get a real computer
Step 3: Find a temple and purify yourself

Or, attempt to get it working with Wine from macports or something. Good luck

[Commando]

If bz2 ran properly on Linux, I'd move to that OS.  BZ2 is one of the main reasons I still have a windows system.  As far as I know, ETQW runs on linux just fine and that is really the only other game I play.

[VSMIT]

I needed a macbook for school, since it has more capabilities regarding my intended major than a pc would have.

I still have my PC, but like I said, if necessary, I can partition the HDD of the macbook and put XP on it.

VSMIT.

[CmptrWz]

since it has more capabilities regarding my intended major than a pc would have.

Wait, what?

Last I checked, the only thing that Macs are considered "Good" at are graphics editing, and then with Adobe products, all of which are available for Windows these days.

Well, unless you compare to Vista......hmmm...........damn, tough one......

[Sonic]

Hmmm, a Vista Laptop made to destroy itself if you put anything but Windows Vista on it...or a mac book which very nature means its almost impossible to put anything else on (without the aid of Bootcamp)...

Damned if you do, Damned if you don't...

[VSMIT]

I'm majoring in music, and from what I've heard from a music technician, a mac would be better suited to what I'm doing.  And that's what I've been hearing for a while.

VSMIT.

[CmptrWz]

I disagree for XP. Vista with all the DRM Crap, not so sure.

[GSH]

The Intel CPU-based Macs can run 'Parallels', a program that allows you to install WinXP and run both XP and MacOS simultaneously. Problem solved.

Alternatively, you might be able to install and run Wine, but that's very beta software.

-- GSH

[technoid]

A lot of pro musicians use Macs for live band and recording simply because of their somewhat limited architecture (compared to 'Wintel' PC's) keeping manufacturers of music hardware and software tied down to that limitation, hence fewer bugs and stuff to take care of due to this proprietary.  It is almost similar to game programmers being able to code faster and easier for gaming consoles than for the myriad mix and match hardware of PC's, as we've heard in the past from Nathan, because of the simpler console design.  I don't know what audio/music applicatiions you will be using, but you should be (and are) able to do music stuff with Win XP (as mentioned) as well.  For example, there are a lot of DAW's out there using Windows.  Your music tech is probably just hanging on one side of the fence, because that's where most of his experience and observation is at. And as Nathan said, you can have two OSes simultaneously for the best of both worlds... BZ2 in particular. 

[OvermindDL1]

All 'real' music hardware pretty much only runs on Windows, unless you are talking about those little piddly music mixing programs.
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[Raven]

Install bootcamp. You don't need to reformat the HD, you can put the bootsector on the internal and have all of your files on an external if you want to save space. OS X can resize your partition to fit the main windows components, and you can whack everything else on an external. This comes with Leopard (10.5), or you can download it for Tiger (10.4). If you'v just bought it you are on Leopard I hope.

Parallels, basically its a virtual machine program.
Crossover, lets you run .exe files natively, though I'm not promising DX3d stuff...

The two latter ones are a bit bothersome with this as obviously its emulated and won't be fast enough.
Especially on a macbook, which although the processor and ram is ok, the graphics are weedy even if you natively ran windows through bootcamp. So don't expect great framerates.

Coding in the OS that is used to handle .exe files has been found and hasn't been explained. Looks like a future marketing prospect that Apple are gonna attempt (sounds like the iPhone to me which is useless unless you 'unlock' it)

Sooo in all, yes its possible. Now its not gonna be great. Macbook pros run modern games through bootcamp well, but I'm doubting your luck with the graphics on a macbook.
They just aren't made to run games. Sure you get the odd mac game but they suck. You might get away with bz2 if your lucky.

As for 'piddly programs' they run Sony Vegas, Cubase, Sibelius, any Adobe software and Poser to name a few. They aren't exactly piddly. Piddly harware is irrelevant as when it comes to real music recording you have a mixer. They also, are not piddly.

Funny thing is that people claim it only runs OS X. When mine boots OS X, Windows and 2 Linux distros. Sure, OS X86 exists, but it borks at every turn.

As for Vista? I had ultimate on my desktop HD for 3 days. The computer restarted instead of shutting down, it had a bluescreen every startup, and it idles at using 30% of a 3.0ghz intel dual core and 3gb ram. Safe to say my Windows machine is happily back to XP and Ubuntu. I always knocked it, so I decided to try it. My suspicions were proven right, as expected.

Bz2 on linux? I haven't had much of a problem. Sure it doesn't look as nice but it still works. Ish

[Angstromicus]

Don't forget to leave enough free space on the OS partion(s) for updates. Might not be an issue but better safe than sorry.

[OvermindDL1]

Anything that can run on *nix can run on MacOSX considering they use the same binaries and libraries.
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