Update: Launching and logging in Uplay works now, but now I found some other issues when installing the Uplay games, so I have to dig some more into it as I did tonight for quite a while. But I am close, so hold on a bit. Got already some concerning fans waiting on the update of ANNO 2070 and are asking for the reason of the holdup. Well, here it is :) Working on it, its quite complicated and takes a bit of time so please give me some time to solve it in the little I already have for porting at the moment.

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Great news!! Fixed the issue with some help of some experienced wine developers. I need to implant the fix into the wrappers, so I will bring out the updates starting tomorrow!

I am also busy with other site as well. Need to finalize some stuff together with some artistic help of Stuart and then we can start with the 600+ game pages....which will be a hell of a job. So then you know that I spread the workload for the old and the new site. This means some more news and some less wrapper updates and new game ports in a week, for a little while. But oh boy, it is gonna be a amazing new website!! It’s hard for me to keep it for you guys, but the waiting will be really worthwhile :D

Awesome news! Summer sales hits GamersGate as well, even games with 90% discounts! With as hotshot: Helldorado with 90% off for just $0,99 and loads of game port games and Mac games with 75% discounts! They going wild there!

So if you like those titles and had them on your wish list, then get them way cheap now and take a look!

For all those sales and 3 pages more go up here…

The Summer sale has started on GOG.com with standard 50% discount for all games to start with, and to celebrate they give away Torchlight for free for 48 hours!!! The cool thing is that the game is given for Mac as for PC! So simply click on the Torchlight link or the banner below and create an account using the login/create account option in the top bar or the „add chart” button on the sidebar and purchase the game for $0,00 :) Then you can download the game on your GOG.com account page for PC or for Mac :) Take this chance now when its free for 48 hours!! Enjoy!!!

They have a massive promo as well daily or weekly with up to 80% of, so check that one out!

Wine is getting to a new milestone now while the Mac-driver is as good as finished. So the second release candidate is out!

See below the changes and click on the link below to go to the wine section for all bugs fixes. You can download the latest Wine Engine using Winery by clicking on the „+„ button in the main window. The wine Engine isn’t there yet, I hope Doh123 will create one very soon so it will be in the list to be added. He just added the Wine engines until 1.6RC1X so those you can download now. I built the engines myself so for me it is not a problem.

Whats new in this release:
• Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.

For the whole list of changes go here…

Pffff, it took a while but the video and wrapper are up. I am updated with one Mac to the beta of 10.9 for testing stuff. And one thing does not work anymore, and that is screenflow (the program where i record the videos with) and I recorded the video already yesterday, but the video was just black!! Anyway, I recorded the video just now on my other iMac with 10.8.4 and there it all worked fine.

So it took a while, but it should be all there now! Remember to refresh the game page a couple of times before downloading the wrapper to clean the browser cache (and that way also the old download link)

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A very nice one which will even run on your low end 256mb gfx card Mac! Something which you wouldn’t expect from the same creators of Euro Truck Simulator 2! This because for Euro Truck simulator 2 you need a very powerful Mac. This one will run great in performance. There is one little catch though, even while I wanted to have this game running perfectly, it has one little flaw. Which is that it has a little background glitch, which is luckily easily fixed by changing the shadow from high to medium or the opposite. Then it will be magically fixed :D A weird bug, but luckily easily fixable. Enjoy!

Take on the challenge and transport heavy and unwieldy cargo safely and quickly to its destination. You will drive along interstate roads, motorways and narrow country roads and navigate through small towns and across unpaved access roads. Many tricky and varied missions await you!

Download the wrapper and watch the video up here...

Update!! Ok it is clear now, it is related with the OSX security protocols as well. I heard the games are working again in „10.9 mavericks beta” (gdiplus winetrick is of course still needed). Looks like we need a quick update of the Apple OSX as well!

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It seems problems come and go at the moment…. First the Steam update issue, which caused that steam didm’t start anymore and where I am doing wrapper updates for all the time. Now Uplay joined the party with their latest update. The bug seems to be known already at the WineHQ, on Linux it seems to be working again with gdiplus, but although that installed in the wrapper the Uplay splash screen at least shows up now, but the login screen does not appear. Its updating/checking for ages…. Following Uplay games are effected: Anno 2070 (found out the issue while updating the wrapper for this one), Tintin secret of the Unicorn, Silent Hunter 4, HAWX 2, Assassin Creed Revelations, Assassins Creed 3 and maybe a couple of more Uplay games I forgot. Anyway, then you know the issue is there for those games and that I am having a closely eye on the issue at the moment.

Update: Should be fixed now! If you experience something then re-download it again a bit later.
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A lot of news tonight, unfortunatly there is also some bad news. There are some download issues with some wrappers at the moment. What happens is that the download is corrupted and the disc Image doesn’t get recognized so you can’t mount it. That’s quite annoying, not for you only but for me as well. I posted a support ticket at OpenDrive and I hope they fix it very soon! I am not in the mood to re-upload dozens of wrappers again! So If you have experienced a corrupt wrapper the past 2 days try downloading it tomorrow or later again. I you ran into a corrupted wrapper please post them in reaction of this blog so I can keep an eye out. Thanks!

I keep you guys informed on the blog. Baer with me guys!

I did already Jagged Alliance 2, Jagged Alliance Back in Action, and while doing an update for Back in Action I thought, why not test Jagged Alliance – Crossfire as well? Well, I did now and works fine as well as Jagged Alliance Back in Action. Have fun!

As the strategic genius behind your own personal Private Military Corporation, you’ve offed to help by bringing in your team of skilled mercenaries to retake the tormented nation of Khanpaa! Help the oppressed people by hiring a team of hardened guns-for-hire and prepare for battle in treacherously frozen mountain badlands. Along the way, discover why Khanpaa has been turned into a bloody battlefield and who aims to truly profit.

Download the wrapper and watch the video up here…

Made a wrapper update for this game (had the Icon already for many weeks on my desktop :P) and finally got to it. Updated wrapper has the steam fix inside and an updated engine with the Mac Driver aboard for screen handling. Enjoy!

Changes:
- Fixed Steam update issue
- Updated Engine and Mac driver activated in wrapper.

Get the new wrapper up here…

On request! Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell, is added to the game list on my site! This game works great! The only bug, is that you can play it up to 1024x768 resolution and not higher. But not a mayor issue, works amazing in 1024x768 anyway. Have fun!

Splinter Cell is a stealth-oriented action game set in a Tom Clancy-inspired landscape. All kinds of cool high-tech gadgets are at your disposal to help you neutralise terrorist threats. Night vision, thermal vision, EM sensors, sticky cams, and other whiz-bang tech toys help you spot the bad guys, and your broad array of weapons--lethal and not--include suppressed pistols and assault rifles, sticky shock bombs, Ring-Airfoil Projectiles, and the most lethal weapon of all: Sam Fisher himself. Climb, mantle, and sneak your way through a game that won E3 2002’s “Best Action/Adventure Game” award as well as the Game Developer’s Choice Award for Excellent in Writing.

Download the wrapper and watch the video up here…

A very good question of Danny to update the Company of Heroes wrapper for steam because Multiplayer does not work anymore for the old way. Another cool thing is that you don’t need to install it on a Windows system first anymore! It will be auto installed by steam automatically. So I update the wrapper and also fixed the Map bug (you couldn’t click into the map to a specific point, it would just go to the edge then) which was there in the old wrapper. Game is fully native windows functional now! Joined easily multiplayer games and played (lost) a bit, and works al great!

When you have purchased the game on Gamersgate in the past, you will have automatically a new steam key added which you can use to add the game in steam! It works awesome, played also a mission without any issues and I am playing the second mission as well. This version is much better then the native Mac version which came out a while back. The Mac version does not have skirmish and multiplayer functionality and does not run on nvidia 9400M, this wrapper has and does :D! Enjoy!

Changes:
- Fixed map click bug.
- File migrated to OpenDrive instead of FileFactory.
- Works amazing! Works native Windows in my opinion!

Get the new wrapper up here…

On my site you can find all kind of cool stuff. From wrappers for commercial games to free preinstalled game wrappers. Two of them are Sudden Strike 3 Iwo Jima and Sudden Strike 3 Normandy which is freely available (those games contain only one or 2 levels) and sponsored by GameTop.com. Sam Haigh mailed me that the old file factory Link was broken, so that gave my the opportunity to update the wrapper as well as migrating it to OpenDrive. In the old wrapper the game had graphical bugs on AMD Radeon Graphics cards. That is fixed now in this latest wrapper as well including the 10.7.5/10.8.2 compatibility fix.

Remember to refresh the game page a couple of times before downloading to delete the old link cache out of your browser. The game is hosted now on open drive (thats the check for the latest version)

Changes:
- Latest Wineskin + Wine version
- File migrated to OpenDrive instead of FileFactory.
- AMD Radeon graphical glitches fix
- OSX 10.8.2+/10.7.5 compatible

Download the new wrapper up here… and here…

OSX 10.8.4 has been released. Prior to Tuesday's release, there were a total of eight betas of OS X 10.8.4 released, in which developers were asked to focus their testing on Wi-Fi, Graphics Drivers and Safari. Earlier builds of the software signaled that Apple is also testing high-speed 802.11ac Wi-Fi in OS X, suggesting the hardware capabilities are likely to appear in future Macs.

What are the changes in the graphical drivers? Are things improved? Well to this question I can’t give a straight answer yet because this would require a lot of testing. Thise things will become clear through time. Some games may improve a bit and others will perform a bit slower. Some little glitches may disappear, other little bugs could appear. I only can say for World of Tanks that on My Nvidia Geforce 640M in the garage when I switch tanks the garage it is rendered good again, but the tank will be glitchy instead. So, there is some good and bad.

What are your experiences with 10.8.4? post them below.

A very nice sale with a wide range of games! Take advantage of this 60% off sale now it’s there! This time: 5 Mac games: Larry Suit Larry, Larry Suit Larry: Love for Sail, Cannon Fodder and Cannon Fodder 2 and the last, but not least Mac game: Sensible World of Soccer 96/97.

There are 2 Windows games on sale as well, where I made a Wrapper for: Insane, and IGI 2: Covert Strike! The last one I ported a week ago, and bought that one a week to early when it was not on sale :(, so take you chance now! Then get the wrappers from the game pages and install the game into the wrapper and play!

Go to the promo page to buy the games and see all the sales, up here...

There are again some more awesome deals on GamersGate! Nice Mac games now with 60-80% off are: Sid Meier's Civilization V (Mac), and the expansion: Sid Meier's Civilization® V: Gods & Kings Expansion Pack (Mac), the older version: Sid Meier's Civilization® IV: Expansions Bundle (Mac), and the cool RPG game: Krater, and the popular: Hotline Miami and some nice platform games: Pid, Knytt Underground™ and Bob Came in Pieces!

So if you like those titles and had them on your wish list, then get them way cheap now and take a look!

For all those sales and 6 pages more go up here…

And here the last 2 Wrapper updates of Men of War as promised and nicely within the week :) Men of War: Vietnam and Men of War Condemned Heroes are the follow-ups of Men War. Condemned Heroes is quite cool together with Assault Squad. Vietnam is for me less interesting, because you play there the Vietnam/communist part instead of Americans. I like to play the American side :P.

Remember to refresh the game page a couple of times before downloading to delete the old link cache out of your browser. The game is hosted now on open drive (thats the check for the latest

Changes:
- Much better camera movement.
- Wrapper hosted on Opendrive now.

Download the latest wrapper from the new pages: here… and here…

A very nice golden olden action game! I ported It already a while back, but forgot to put on the game page :P Well, now it is and guess what, I was remembered to this because GOG.com has released this game again on their site for only $5,99! So for the ones interested can download the wrapper from the game page, with the latest GOG.com installer fix inside. You can play this game again even in 1920x1080 resolution! And even on low end Macs! Anyway, I am glad it is now available again, this saves searching game stores and ordering it online somewhere for the CD version. GOG.com version is DRM free! Have fun!

Project Eden is a 3D shooter with an emphasis on puzzle-solving. You'll lead a squad consisting of four UPA agents: Carter Dorlan, Andre Herderman, Minoko Molensky, and Amber Torrelson. Each operative has his or her own special ability that you'll need to master in order to progress. As Carter, use your knack for interrogation and nimble fingers to gain information and unlock doors. When you need something fixed and in a hurry, Andre is your man. Computer terminals are no match for Minoko's hacking talents. Last but not least, Amber can traverse hazardous environments with nary a scratch and she'll be your weapons expert. Brave the lowest strata and prepare to go through hell in Project Eden! If you're looking for some gritty cyberpunk-ish storytelling, challenging puzzles, and original gameplay (with optional drop-in, drop-out co-op), this is your game!

Download the wrapper and watch the video up here…

As promised (right Danny ;), I would do this week a wrapper update for the Men of War Series. Today I will do the much requested Men of War: Assault Squad Also an amazing very popular WW2 Strategy game! For Men of War Assault Squad also counts that the Camera movement is much improved. Tested the game both on my Nvidia as on AMD Radeon iMac, and works fine! Enjoy!

Changes:
- Much better camera movement.
- Wrapper hosted on Opendrive now.

Download the latest wrapper from the new pages: here…

Ridge Racer Unbounded is a very nice popular racing game. The game needs a good video card (512mb graphics card) to run decently and still it won’t have the native performance of Windows. Still good enough to play it nicely though. I think the „Bloom option” is the cause of it, but you can’t turn it off unfortunately. Otherwise this game, i think, would run perfectly. Anyway, it still runs good on good graphics cards an thats why worth porting in my humble opinion. Used the Gamersgate (=steam serial) version to test the game and works out of the box with the wrapper (includes the Windows steam)! Happy racing!

RIDGE RACER Unbounded brings an unexpected dimension to the series, delivering an original blast of ferocious racing adrenaline. Join the Unbounded street racing gang, lead by Kara Shindo, and test your driving skills against rivals in every street and alley of Shatter Bay. Prove your worth, get respect and expand your turf.

Download the wrapper and watch the video up here…

Another strategy game has been released for the Mac! This one was already released last week, but forgot to post it :P Expeditions: Conquistador is a massive game with great gameplay and you are even able to play it online with your friends :) So check the game out and have fun!

You are one the conquistadores: Choose your path wisely! Every action has its consequences – you can choose to battle the savages and civilize the vast green jungles, or you can side with the natives and defend their homeland against the foreign invasion.

Made a game page for the game up here...