HOW CAN I PLAY MY MICROSOFT GAMES ON MY MAC?

Install CrossOver Games, or a product such as VirtualBox, or set up Boot Camp.

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Actually Parallels is the best virtual machine for running Windows games it accepts up to 1GB or video memory here is the link http://www.parallels.com/products/desktop VM Ware Fusion also works but is not as good at gaming here is the link for that http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/overview.html Hope this helps!

Windows natively first.

Parallels from inside OS X IF you have RAM and processor cores to handle both.

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DEPENDING ON WHAT THE GAME IS AND HOW RESOURCE INTENSIVE IT IS, PARALLELS CAN WORK, BUT I WOULDN'T RECOMMEND IT FOR GAMING, ESPECIALLY IF THESE ARE GAMES WITH ADVANCED GRAPHICS.

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Just responding to the original post.

So I am hearing.....Bootcamp. Virtual Camp. And Crossover Games. I too am looking to play Windows CD-Rom games on my Mac. I recently was able to install Boer for Mac to play DOS games. Works like a charm!

With this being said, more specifically, I'm looking to play Sammy Sosa's HH Baseball 2001 on my Mac. Simply put community dwellers..What do I need to make this happen? Is there software I can purchase through the Apple store? Or do I have to get this Crossover Games thing? If I get Bootcamp, will I also have to buy Windows OS also?

Help please. 🙂

So I am hearing.....Bootcamp. Virtual Camp. And Crossover Games. I too am looking to play Windows CD-Rom games on my Mac. I recently was able to install Boer for Mac to play DOS games. Works like a charm!

With this being said, more specifically, I'm looking to play Sammy Sosa's HH Baseball 2001 on my Mac. Simply put community dwellers..What do I need to make this happen? Is there software I can purchase through the Apple store? Or do I have to get this Crossover Games thing? If I get Bootcamp, will I also have to buy Windows OS also?

Help please. 🙂

You will have to purchase Windows, whether you use BootCamp or VMWare, Microsoft generally don't give it away but they are giving away limited life copies of Windows 8 if free is what you are actually looking for.

Bootcamp will require a copy of Windows, as will virtual machines like Parallels and VMware Fusion.

Crossover Games is a version of WINE for Linux that is highly customized for running games for Windows on Mac OS X. Neither Crossover nor WINE require a copy of Windows—indeed that is their entire reason to be, running Windows software without running Windows. You can get WINE for Mac OS, but Crossover includes lots of Mac-specific upgrades and lots of game-specific hacks to ensure functionality.

However, as unreliable as virtual machines can be for games, Crossover and WINE are even more unreliable. I believe Crossover has a demo so you can make sure your particular program will run well before you decide to buy, but I'm not sure. I know that they have lists of games and their relative compatability on their website. If you don't see your game, then you're taking a risk. It may not even load, let alone run in any playable way. I have never gotten a game to run on Crossover if it wasn't listed on their site, and I have never gotten a listed game to run well. That's just me though. I have used Parallels with Windows 7, and I can get games to run, but it's frustratingly slow most of the time.

Boot camp, however, runs Windows natively on your hardware. There is no software-level virtualization (Parallels/VMware) or incomplete system software (Crossover/WINE). Games will run as well as they would on a PC that shipped with Windows and has similar specs.

So my recommendation is that you try Crossover first. Otherwise, buy a copy of Windows and install it with Bootcamp. Virtualization is best for convenient use of Windows office/business applications, not games.