Since we have an insane amount of Content in the Forum now, a few sections will be re-arranged to make things less confusing.

Edit: Forum now down.
It’ll likely take about 2 hours until it’s online.
In the meantime, here’s something for those who are bored

Edit2: Forum is online again.

-dev

STATUS: Green (fully playable)

Personal Notes from Taeki:
The multiplayer is working fine too (thanks to skullstrider for replying).

The startup time can take up to 30 seconds. Just be patient.

Game Description:
In the fourth game of the venerable SWAT series, you play as a Special Weapons and Tactics element commander at a fictional police department. Using realistic SWAT tactics, you must command your four man team to deal with high risk situations while minimizing casualties. But this is not a game for the itchy trigger finger. You must follow strict rules of engagement, and shooting a suspect before he or she points a gun at someone will cost you.

Using a variety of weapons, such as standard assault rifles or less lethal weapons ranging from beanbag shotguns to Tazers to modified paintball guns that shoot pepper spray balls, you can maneuver the two man squads that make up your five man (including you) element independently or together, as well as get useful recon from snipers (who you can control through a picture-in-picture interface).

The game has a single player career mode as well as an Instant Action mode that generates a random mission using an existing map. You can also customize objectives for a single player mission. Multiplayer includes team-based SWAT vs. suspects games as well as cooperative play with up to five players.

tested Game-Version: US Release
Strategy First Person Shooter

1. Port Info
Cider Port

2. Minimum System Requirements:
Mac OS version: OS X 10.5.8
Min. Processor: Intel Core Duo
Min RAM: 512 MB
Video RAM: 128 MB
Harddisk Space: ~ 2000 MB

3. Known Issues:
None yet!

4. Installation:
Detailed Installation Instructions: see Forum Topic
General Installation Instructions: see the Newbie Tutorial

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Check out this Week’s POTW in the Port of the Week Forum Section

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Screenshot / Gameplay

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

Each Week we’ll highlight a Wrapper Port on our Blog that users made in the Forum.
Since a lot of People read our Blog, making it to the Front Page as a Port of the Week will make quite a few ripples on the Internet. (since people link it on Facebook, Twitter etc…)
Wouldn’t you like to read about your Port on Digg, Reddit and Co.?

To qualify as a Port of the Week there are some criteria:

- only Game Wrappers are allowed to be displayed at the Front Page

- there must be instructions included in the Game Topic on how to install the Game in the Wrapper.
like: ‘install game normally with CXInstaller.app’ oder ‘drag contents here: game.app/contents/root/drive_c/program files/game/’
If there are no Installation instructions included, People will not know how to use the Wrapper.

- each Port needs to pass a Quality check.
That means a few team members will dissemble the Game Port and look if the Port has been made correctly.
(has the Port an Icon, are the strings for the exe set correctly, is the preferences Path set correctly and so on.)

- old CX Ports are disqualified from being a Port of the Week, since they don’t work anymore in Snow Leopard.

- the Topics of the Port needs some Information and Structure.
You’ll be fine if you stick to the Post Palette and include Pictures and Gameplay Videos from Youtube and post some known Issues and requirements, but it’s not enough just to write ‘Playable’ and some copied Windows specs.

Users can vote each week between 3 Ports, and the winner Game Port will get posted on the front page.
Also you can make suggestions on what Game Ports should be in next Week’s Port of the Week.

Updates will be on Sunday evening/Monday morning.

-dev

You can find the updated CXZ Wrappers & Engines in the CXZ Section as usual.
(Registration required)

-dev

We’d like to give the following members of the Porting Team Community a big thanks for their splendid achievements and their work on the Ports.

Crowie & tcrown for ‘The Witcher’
Cartri for ‘Assassin’s Creed’
dafootballer and saam for ‘Borderlands’
dafootballer for ‘Fallout 3′
n3wf0ld3r for ‘Left 4 Dead 2′
jimjimjimbob and r4nd0m for their work on ‘Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2′
and rynotheking14 for his outstanding ‘Mass Effect’ Port, which hadn’t been thought possible for now.

Special Thanks to doh123, for her work on Wineskin and the new and upcoming MMORPG Star Trek Online.

All these ports can be found in the Forum, make sure to thank everyone for their great work!

Thanks guys and gals, without you all this couldn’t have been done.

Staff
portingteam.com

The Wrappers are really small now, and you save a lot of Disk space with CXZ Ports (about 100MB per port)

A tutorial for using the Wrappers and making Ports is included

Check them out here

For now, forum’s back online again, i hope it stays that way.

I’ve written up some documentation, as well as having updated the customEXE, Installer, and Winetricks apps…. as for bug fixes, it should be the full release version of CX Games 8 now, and not a beta…. I built it off of a fresh download of the demo for sure this time.

Forum link, where the download is available

CXSkin (Games 8 Beta 2 available!)

There are still some minor bugs, but we’ll remove them shortly.

-devilhunter

Long Post, best explained in the Forum .

Bioshock came out for Consoles and the PC a whopping two years ago, but having another good title in the mac’s game Library shouldn’t hurt.

The mac version gets done by Feral Interactive, and they’ll make this a native port. (like they always do)

Good Stuff
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