Divine Divinity & Beyond Divinity for mac also?

[nico]

I was wondering if the first two games of the saga are available also for mac...if this is the case, i would even pay 100 $ for the offer.

[Dorok]

On Gog they are on Mac too, but through a Win Wrapper made by Gog.

Divine Divinity works very well on Mac for me, but I had to change one setup in the gog wrapper to not have some flickering on one border. But that sort of problem is very dependent of the OS version and GPU used.

They was in sale recently, right now they are $2.99 each, had already DD and bought BD during this sale but didn't tried yet its wrapper.

What you can do is buy them, try on your mac and if you have trouble with the wrapper you have one month to get refund (not sure it's in money).

[nico]

the fact is that if they aren't already provided for Mac (I mean the version included in the offer), on a Mac I can't even download or install them...that is the issue :)
I own an original disk-version of DD and if I remember correctly it works "fine" with a wrapper.
BTW do you think it is possible to download the Gog wrapper for it without buying the game?

[stauff__]

Nope first games are not Mac compatible (in native mode). You have to start a campaign or something like that in order to make this happen ;)

[nico]

I remember I wrote an e-mail one time to larian asking if they would make it happen and they said no xD but I was still hopeful since DD is my fav RPG game ever together with baldurs gate :)
Stauff if you already bought the game, could you tell me if is party-based (meaning, you can hire members for your party and command them during the turns, pretty much as it was baldur's gate) or you play the role of only one character?

[stauff__]

It's a party based. And I am Mac team lead of D:OS ;)

[nico]

wow :D thanks for your answer then...do you have an e-mail to keep in contact or in case I experience any bug in Mac OS so that I can write you?
Pd: I am currently ending my Master in AI in Switzerland, do you think is there a chance of working for you? I do speak 5 languages, maybe this could help :D

[stauff__]

As you see I don't have developer tag. That's because I only work on Mac aspect of the game and can't answer any other questions. As for contacting me you can use forums here or at Larian site. I am always monitoring them. At Larian forums I am Stauff1138 and you can PM me.

[nico]

Ok, got it. Thank you, have a nice day and good luck in the WC, we will meet in quarter finals :)

[Dorok]

nicolas.zimerman님이 먼저 게시:

...BTW do you think it is possible to download the Gog wrapper for it without buying the game?

It's really Gog stuff, it's a gog application that setup the thing. I made a quick search and didn't found some wrapper ready but I found a news:
http://www.insidemacgames.com/news/story.php?ArticleID=7289

Divine Divinity coming to OSX!!!! Wooo woo:

German house e.p.i.c. interactive announced today they are working with Larian Studios to bring their award-winning role-playing game Divine Divinity to Mac OS X.

Well the "news" is Wednesday, March 19, 2003. Lol.

I found that PlayOnMac provides a Wrapper for Divine Divnity but from Gog, yeah it's a bit a duplicate but you could try it as a base.

Steam isn't that easy to install in a wrapper if you don't want boot on Windows just to download the game and have an installation folder. I recently used this one for Far Cry:
http://portingteam.com/files/file/8029-steam-windows/

And for now I even used it for playing Far Cry in this wrapper and it works fine for now.

You can give a try, and try like I did for Far Cray ie launch the game from Steam in the wrapper.

But quote that even on Steam Divine Divinity is DRM free. Ie you could make a winskin wrapper and for installation just use a copy of the game folder installed for Steam. Or you can try edit the steam wrapper to change its setup so it launch Divine Divinity directly.

That's not pleasant stuff to do yourself but if you really want play it on Mac you could succeed without technical knowledges.