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    windows gaming on a mac

    1) mods if this is in the wrong part of the forums, move it to the right one for me please
    2) no booing or hissing it's only temp (mac people only)
    3) i'm going away for the week end to see a friend i need a way of geting windows on my mac for gaming (friend is a pc gaming) i have tiger (10.4) and can't realy aford Leopard and i'm not/can get to an apple store.
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    Re: windows gaming on a mac

    Download the bootcamp beta from somewhere and I believe there is a way to do it on tiger still with that.

    This site may help InsanelyMac Forum

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    Re: windows gaming on a mac

    Firstly, what Mac do you have?

    The beta checks the date on your mac. It's if it's past the expired date boot camp will not load.

    The other way of course is to get a Leopard machine (if you know anyone with one) and do the boot camp partition on there and run your mac in "Target mode".

    Or might be a long shot, but make the partition in Disk Utility (as MS-DOS format) and then boot directly from the Windows XP cd and then format as NTFS. You should be able to download the drivers from the net. (depending on what mac you have, i might be able to upload the drivers for you)

    Let me know which option works.

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    Re: windows gaming on a mac

    you could also keep an eye on StreamMyGame

    you would also need a windows PC somewhere, and they don't do a mac client yet... but they do do a linux one, and support for various consoles - could be another option in the future. there is a trhread about a mac client on their forums too, i added my support for wanting a mac client

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