Cider Portability Engine Brings PC Games to the Mac!

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Games on the Mac. (We’ll wait while you stop laughing.) Thanks to the Intel chip in the latest Macs, it looks like PC games may get a toehold. A company called TransGaming Technologies has just released “Cider” a portability engine that converts PC games to the Intel-based Mac platform.

“Thanks to Cider, video game developers and publishers can extend their content to the Intel Macs quickly, cost-effectively, and with little to no effort on their part. Stemming from the same technology foundation as TransGaming’s Cedega, Cider empowers game developers and publishers to release Mac editions of their titles. Cider is so effective that publishers will be able to simultaneously deploy the Mac and Windows versions of their titles, even for new games already in development. With Cider, whole catalogues of games can be easily brought to a brand new audience starving for games. Another great benefit is that games migrated to Intel Mac using Cider will also run on Linux under Cedega, forging a path to another game hungry market.

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