is there any chance of this? i've recently become addicted to a mac game callediConquer/. I dont actually own a mac and i've heard that since mac runs bsd under the hood now, it uses the same executable formats as linux and bsd, so i thought it might be possible to just run the binary through some kind of conversion and run it in linux. another thing that might be good is a mac emulator, but it would have to be something similar to wine as opposed to pearpc, where i have to run the overhead of 2 operating systems at once. can anybody help me?

i seriously doubt it as this game purports to take 'full advantage' of Mac OS x. i.e the aqua interface. I dont see how this game could run in X windows as OS X uses a proprietory GUI....

oh well. thanks

i've seen this open darwin bsd distro and some kind of apple open source project, is it possible i could run it using that? i havent looked into either of these options much yet, but i expect that they just come with the bsd backend and X, not the osx Finder thingy that i would probably need.

Darwin is the OS X kernel, but none of the other components of the OS.

For starters, at this stage 99% of Macs are running on a PowerPC CPU so unless your system is a PPC and not x86 you're out. If you are on a PPC you can look at MacOnLinux but you need a legit copy of OS X, it's relatively easy to setup I've heard. If you're on x86 and this game is worth it you can try using PearPC to emulate a PPC machine and install OS X (again, need a legit copy) in the virtual machine and then you have a full Mac and can run whatever you like on it.

BSD and linux do not use the same executables, BSD has a linux emulation layer but not the other way around. The CPU architecture and lack of access to Cocoa and Carbon are the real killers though.

looks like you're buying a mac then :-D