shipsimulator for mac??

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[captainjo]

Can someone tell me if the shipsimulator program is going to be ported to the Macintosh ?

Captainjo

[bbydino05]

well depending on your mac computer you can run xp on it and from there well im sure u could figure out the rest

[Captain Best]

If you have Mac Program that you running.
the answer is unfortnley No

[nigelj]

Can someone tell me if the shipsimulator program is going to be ported to the Macintosh ?

Captainjo

I just bought SS2008 last night and installed it on my Macbook Pro...I run XP in a boot camp partition, using VMWare Fusion v2.0.

Seems to work OK, although it's the first time I've used SS so I can't compare with anything as I don't know what it should be doing!

There are just 2 issues I have at the moment...(1) the compass rose in the info panel flashes on and off constantly (maybe it's supposed to, in which case it isn't a problem!) and the right click mouse movements for panning are almost uncontrollable (I mean very very fast, and a minute movement of the mouse gives a huge movement in the view)...I'm still playing with the mouse settings to try to sort this out.

Later I'm going to boot my Mac into XP instead of running through vmware, and see if it's better.

HTH,

Nige

[captainjo]

Thank you guys for your replies. however I do not run a microsoft program on my mac. The next question would be, what if I purchase playstation3 could I run the SS program on that.

captainjo

[bbydino05]

Thank you guys for your replies. however I do not run a microsoft program on my mac. The next question would be, what if I purchase playstation3 could I run the SS program on that.

captainjo

noooo.... it says what shipsim could run on on the purchase page people

[bbydino05]

I just bought SS2008 last night and installed it on my Macbook Pro...I run XP in a boot camp partition, using VMWare Fusion v2.0.

Seems to work OK, although it's the first time I've used SS so I can't compare with anything as I don't know what it should be doing!

There are just 2 issues I have at the moment...(1) the compass rose in the info panel flashes on and off constantly (maybe it's supposed to, in which case it isn't a problem!) and the right click mouse movements for panning are almost uncontrollable (I mean very very fast, and a minute movement of the mouse gives a huge movement in the view)...I'm still playing with the mouse settings to try to sort this out.

Later I'm going to boot my Mac into XP instead of running through vmware, and see if it's better.

HTH,

Nige

to make it run perfect you are gonna have to boot xp into your mac book air

[nigelj]

to make it run perfect you are gonna have to boot xp into your mac book air

Yeh...thanks...I found that out!!! SS does run when I'm using XP in vmware, but not so well.

Cheers,

Nige

btw...I have have a proper MacBook...Pro, not a fancy Air that's loads more money and only half as useable for everyday business use 

[Bonanza23d]

Well there is a 100% FREE solution available. It is called Darwine. It uses X11 to run the .exe files (Which Ship Simulator Uses) and open it in a window. This advantage can also increase the speed of the application.

I may be posting on a topic that is over 4 months old, but the thing is is that the Code of Conduct states that I CANNOT create multiple topics on the same thing.

Here is the link if you want it. http://www.kronenberg.org/darwine/ (http://www.kronenberg.org/darwine/)

[Mad_Fred]

Thanks for your input Bonanza23d,

And no worries, as long as people have a valid contribution to make to a topic, it doesn't really matter that it's an older one. 

Regards,
Fred

[Bonanza23d]

well. Parallels is a lot better then VMWare. There has been bad reports about VMWare.