RCTycoon 2 For Mac?

Does anyone know if there is a version of RCT 2 available for Macs yet? Or if there is one, where can I find it...I checked at Best Buy...

I just recently got a G5 for a graduation present and was pissed that I couldn't play RCT on my new 20inch screen...AHHH!! Yes, it sucks... Any help would be appreciated!

-Jeff-

I'll trade you my PC with RCT2 for your G5 and we'll call it even.

Ha!! My PC with RCT 2 is upstairs in another room! So unfortunately, I'm gonna have to say no to that one.
Nice try though...lol
Whoa...and you're Jeff too!!
-Jeff-

RCT for the mac isn't going to happen. It relys on windows too much. BUT get an emulator and run windows on the G5 and you can play RCT2 on there just fine

Provided you can right click.:)

Here's an idea, get this coo program called Virtual PC, you can run Windows OS and Mac OS on the ame computer at the same time.

Actually, it's not that it relies on Windows that much (Sawyer mentioned somewhere that the only Windows-specific code is to interface DirectX), it's that it relies on the Intel x86 processor architecture. The game is largely written in machine language, which is specific to the processor.

I heard Virtual PC for the G5 will not be available for quite some time.

I suggest you do what I do. I use my Windows machine for RCT2 and my tv tuner, and use my iBook for just about everything else. If I need performance though, I use my dad's powermac, which is only a dual G4.

I wish RCT2 was available to Mac, but I guess, from what I have read from responces to when I asked the same question, it would be too hard to port.

Enjoy your G5. I probably won't be able to get one for a long time, but I am almost sure you will love it.

-Sam (full time Mac user since 2003 and loving it!)

EDIT: Safari is a great browser to use for Coasterbuzz. It blocks the popups automatically, and it is fast. I just wish I could afford the CB club so I could make up for blocking the pop-ups. *** Edited 12/3/2003 6:44:36 AM UTC by Avalanche Sam***

RCTycoon 2 will not be made for mac anytime soon, because the software program was written in Assembly language for Intel ibm compatible motherboards.. Assembly languages are written specifically for the particular hardware of computer, meaning that if they wanted to make RCTycoon2 for mac they would have to write in an assembly language that was for macintosh only.

Which I am sure Chris sawyer is not going to do, because there is not a strong market for gaming on the Mac platform, no offense to any mac users. They are great computers but not enough alot of games are written for pc, and some are programmed in assembly, C, C++ or Java. It all depends on what language the game was programmed in. If the rct was programmed in Java, Theoreticaly it could work on all operating systems, because java is not operating system specific, it uses a virtual machine to run the programs. where as Assembly is written for the hardware and some versions of C and C++ are specific to mac and some are specific to IBm compatible.

Sorry to be to technical for everyone.

I hope this makes sense,

Thanks for reading.

Wood Fan

Thank you for repeating exactly what I said!