today I’d like to point out to you that a new Cider wrapper has been discovered by Taeki, one of our many contributing Team members.

The Build version is 4003 and some people have already started with testing out its capabilities only to find themselves more than pleasantly surprised by the results.

It seems that this particular wrapper is by far the most compatible that has been available to the community as of yet.
Therefore I encourage you to check it out, test it with your own games and report your experiences in the appropriate forum topic:

http://forum.portingteam.com/viewtopic.php?f=109&t=4893

I would also like to take this opportunity to express my sincere congratulations to all of you.

The past year has been full of exciting events and innovations and I’m proud to say that this is one of the most amazing communites I have come across on the world wide web so far.

Mac gaming has started to experience a slow paradigm-shift away from native and towards “translative” porting during the past few years – an evolution that I think is currently still in its infancy.
Thanks to this development, we have not only been able to free ourselves from the role of small clueless and industry-dependant consumers, furthermore as time progresses, many of us have turned into resourceful game porting experts who have proven time and time again that they are able to successfully take matters into thier own hands.

We have organzied ourselves as an independant community, we are passing on our knowledge to those who are interested and offering useful content to those who are in need.
We have also developed our own porting tools and we are constantly improving ways of bringing great games to the Mac OS.
It is because of these achievements that we are experiencing a steady infulx of creative and dedicated people who are eager to contribute their time and skill to our cause, enabling us to extend our reputation even more.

It’s the spirit and dedication of each and every one of you that makes the Porting Team so special in my eyes.
I would like to congratulate all fellow admins, porters, coders and Team members for what they have accomplished so far.
Together we have managed to create something truly unique – and that is an achievement we have every right to be proud of.

Keep the dream alive!

peace out
-thedoctor45

Welcome to steam!

Now that steam has been officially released for Mac and games are slowly starting to pour into our section, I thought it’d be a nice idea to make a steam group for us. This way we can actually play some of the games we ported in the past, together through Steam as they were meant to be played.

Name: The Porting Team
Abbreviation: TPT

Link for easy access

The Steamgroup will be used to; of course compare stats, find friends and play either against or together with each other.

The owner and moderators will from time to time post several “let’s play together for once and have a contest” matches once more games come out that can be played together.

If you decide to join, drop by the forum post and leave your name and Steam username so we know who’s who and who to give credit (or flame!!) when you deserve it!

Join The Porting Team Steam Group now and see you on Steam!

-Darkuser

Thanks to the efforts of our contributing member paulthetall, we’re now able to enjoy standalone game ports of old Amiga classics on our favourite gaming platform. ^^

A new subsection has been added in our Forum where you can find links to his latest ports as well as instructions on how to port and post your own games.

Be sure to drop by and share some Amiga love

Please feel free to post any Amiga related questions, suggestions or requests you might have in this section.

LINK:
http://forum.portingteam.com/viewforum.php?f=197

http://www.youtube.com/user/TheMacPortingTeam <- on this account you will find porting tutorials and other instructional stuff that will help you to get started with porting your own games.

http://www.youtube.com/user/portingteamdotcom <- this account is for enterainment purposes only - here you will find gameplay recordings of Cider and CrossOver ported games as well as other awesome Mac gaming related stuff.

Follow these links and pay us a visit and please feel free to rate, comment and subscribe!

enjoy
thedoctor45

Also, just in case you were wondering where it is, we decided to completely remove the obsolete Games Blog, becasue no one was using it for posing stuff during the last few weeks before we went offline.

If you want to share your ports/wrappers, please use the forum, which is now again operational and available at http://forum.portingteam.com (or just click the link in the menubar!)

welcome back to the light people!

cheers
thedoctor45

• The first one is based on CX Games 7.1.1:
I noticed that Birth of the Federation had some serious performance issues in CrossOver 7.2.
I figured out that CX Games 7.1.1 works better with this particular game – improving performance drastically. I don’t know if there are more games affected by this issue, but just to be on the safe side I decided to create a wrapper from this CX version.
You can use it if you encounter performance issues with older games that use 2D based graphics like BOTF does.

Link:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?zwtvw3m2gjh

• the second wrapper is based on the new CrossOver Pro 8.0 version.
some people claimed that a few games would work better with this build.
I was able to successfully test ports of Red Faction 2, Star Wars Racer and Rayman 3 Hoodlum Havoc with this wrapper.
I encourage you to test your own games with it and post your results in the corresponding forum thread that I’m about to make.

Link:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?vjjtuk1zzgv

I also want to give you the updated links for the two older Wrappers that I made:

• CX Games 7.2 Wrapper: (I still recommend using this one first because it provides the best compatibility for most games, if it doesn’t work then try the others)
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?2zdmnc0ndzz

• Original CX Chromium Wrapper: (Modified version based on CrossOver Office 7.1.1)
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?nwud2qmyimg

HOWEVER, there seems to be another issue that still spoils the gaming fun.

Many games that work with CrossOver don’t work with the wrapper because the launched windows executables are unable to find their corresponding game resources.
This seems to be a side effect of the fact that we are launching the exe not directly from the Finder (like we would in regular CrossOver), but instead give wine the command to launch it through the wrapper.

It seems that game laucher applications and other windows apps that are able to lauch another windows executable file can circumvent this problem, however this is not a very comfortable solution as this would involve fiddling around with another Windows app before being able to actually play the game…

if anyone has any suggestions on how we could best solve this problem please post a comment.

thanks for reading and take care

cheers
thedoctor45

Surprisingly this game contains the latest known Cider build (v2376) – even Red Alert 3 has a lower build number.

The full Demo can be downloaded from gametreeonline’s site: 
http://www.gametreeonline.com/mac-downloads/

Check the games section for a link to the wrapper in case you don’t want to download the whole 500 megs.
Let’s hope this one will be a bit more “comfortable” to work with…

cheers
thedoctor45

Link:

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?nfnxotdk4qz

enjoy

thedoctor45

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