[Wine] Wine on Mac: subpar experience

Mon Feb 8 10:16:59 CST 2010

>It took a long time; apparently it actually had to build Wine from source. Once it was done we tried
>to run the Baldur's Gate installer from a disc and found that the Mac port of Wine has no support for
>16-bit Windows apps (such as the SETUP.EXE for Baldur's Gate 1) due to some obscure issue with XCode.
>
I hate to do this, but your best solution at this point is to purchase Crossover Games for the Mac.  It has the capabilities to run these older games in full screen mode.  Otherwise you are 'stuck' with the windowed version and I realize that this is very poor.

James McKenzie