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Hello,
Is it possible to manually extract the game directories from the GOG executables?
Can this be done within Mac OS X?
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Wishbone: I'm quite calm, thank you. This is not about my preference of OS, this is about common sense. Do I like the Mac platform? No, but that's quite beside the point. My gripe is with people who choose a platform that is wholly unsuited for what it is they want to do, and then insist that someone else enables them to do it on that platform anyway.

You're right, sorry if I sounded like a mad cat defending its territory. I just sometimes feel that most of us Mac users choose this platform to do other things besides gaming and are subject to constant harassment/abuse (not by you, I mean direct childish attacks) by people at the sole mention of the word "Mac". We know it's not the best platform for gaming, that's why I always kindly ask (not demand) if there's a workaround or possible solution to play games on Mac OS X as I really don't like to boot up Windows for the sole purpose of playing games.
Can we be friends? :)
PS. Your English is excellent, I admire your language skills.
I was just thinking that. A gent from Denmark and a gent from Spain carrying on in excellent English, while here there are people who can't even form proper sentences, let alone read and write. It makes me tear up a little.
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iGaboru: You're right, sorry if I sounded like a mad cat defending its territory. I just sometimes feel that most of us Mac users choose this platform to do other things besides gaming and are subject to constant harassment/abuse (not by you, I mean direct childish attacks) by people at the sole mention of the word "Mac". We know it's not the best platform for gaming, that's why I always kindly ask (not demand) if there's a workaround or possible solution to play games on Mac OS X as I really don't like to boot up Windows for the sole purpose of playing games.

Sure, I've got other platforms too (Windows Mobile, GP2X, NDS), and I'm constantly fiddling with them, trying to get them to do more cool stuff. It's the way one goes about doing it that's important.
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iGaboru: Can we be friends? :)
PS. Your English is excellent, I admire your language skills.

Certainly, and so is yours, I might add :-)
Scandinavians are generally pretty good at English, I think primarily because we don't dub foreign movies and TV shows, and so we're exposed to it a lot more than most other non-English-speaking Europeans. You don't have that advantage, but your English seems to be just as good as mine, regardless.
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Wishbone: Basically, this is how it works:
- If you want to play games, you get a Windows machine.
- If you want to do l33t geeky stuff, run lots of nifty open source apps, and have complete control over your operating system, you run Linux.
- If you want to pay twice for hardware what it's worth, and have access to only a very limited selection of software, but look very hip at the coffee house, you get a Mac.

The first two were reasonable, why not the last one? Sure you pay a bit extra, but OBVIOUSLY not double. You pay extra for some slick hardware with some nice integration. Windows people do this too, you know. Very limited selection of software? There's an ABSURD amount of software for Mac. Look very hip... well yeah, that's part of the bonus in getting the "slick hardware" in the first part. If you got a Dell Adamo I think you'd look pretty hip too. (Plus pay way more than it's worth).
Oh but were you just trolling?
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Wishbone: I wonder if Nokia get angry letters, complaining that their batteries don't work with Samsung phones?

No, but we're talking software here. If they got angry letters that the Nokia browser wouldn't open the same web sites that the Samsung one would?
You're replying to a guy named DosFreak... he probably wants to install a DOS game from here, to play on DOSBox, which, as you might know, is cross-platform. Since it's NOT a Windows game, why tie it to Windows?
I understand they want to make a seamless experience for Windows users, because that's where the money is, but there should be some kind of alternate way to get at the files. Discussion's still open on that one.
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BoxOfSnoo: I understand they want to make a seamless experience for Windows users, because that's where the money is, but there should be some kind of alternate way to get at the files. Discussion's still open on that one.

And if you'd read my posts properly, you'd know that I agree completely with that sentiment, as far as non-Windows games go.
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BoxOfSnoo: I understand they want to make a seamless experience for Windows users, because that's where the money is, but there should be some kind of alternate way to get at the files. Discussion's still open on that one.
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Wishbone: And if you'd read my posts properly, you'd know that I agree completely with that sentiment, as far as non-Windows games go.

Yeah I know, you said it about DOSBox and SCUMMVM files. We both agree. 99% of your post was super reasonable, but you threw in some nonsense at the end just to insult Mac users? That's the part I don't get WHY you said it. Forget it though. No use harping.
Back on topic, though... consider another couple of games: Freespace 1 & 2 and Descent 1 & 2 - Windows games, right? Nope! In fact the native Mac binaries for these files work amazingly well! As long as you can get at the files... It doesn't need to be as slick and easy as for Windows users, but it should be slightly easier than "find a Windows machine"... that's all...