Monday, 29 November 1999 19:00
I'll admit it, I'm an Apple fan, through and through. It does everything I need it to for my development work does it well, but if there's one area in software that Macs lag far behind PCs, it's in gaming! The majority of gaming software titles never make it to OSX, and Mac users miss out.
Since Apple changed to Intel chips a number of years ago, there are now programs that let you run Windows on your Mac, including one packaged with OS X 10.5 Leopard. I tried two popular virtualization software titles and Apple's own Boot Camp to get Free Realms running the best that it could on my 2.4 GHz Aluminum Macbook and I'd like to share the details with other Mac users who want to play Free Realms!
I spent two days installing and re-installing Windows XP and Windows Vista using various configurations:
- Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit via VMWare Fusion 2.0
- Windows XP SP3 via VMWare Fusion 2.0
- Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit via Parallels Desktop 4.0
- Windows XP SP3 via Parallels Desktop 4.0
- Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit via Boot Camp
- Windows XP SP3 via Boot Camp
Out of all of the configurations I tried, #6 conveniently offered the best performance and lowest price of all!