Because i am running Tiger on my Mac, and Apple decided not to produce a Boot Camp version for it, the only way for me to run Warhammer online is either through means of Virtual Machine Fusion Ware or purchasing Leopard at a generous price of only $129.99.
Since my budget is tight, i tried using the VM Fusionware, which basically creates a virtual window on which you can install and run Windows XP or Vista. My friend gave me his version of windows and I managed to install it with only one slight problem – you cannot install windows directly from the CD therefore you will have to copy an image of the CD on to the Mac and then convert it to an ISO; all of which can be accomplished through means of the Disk Utility program.
The problem is unless you have more than 2GB of RAM this is a very bad idea. It is laggy and you will spend a minimum of 19 hours – yes that is how long it took me to install both warhammer and windows onto my MacBook Pro – just setting up everything. And once you are done the result is a black screen with golden warhammer cursor.
I have heard rumors that this maybe because of the recent update that Mythic put out. I highly doubt it but i’ll give it another shot if the come out with another update. Till then, i advice people to stay clear of these emulators unless you have a top notch machine, otherwise it eat a lot of space on Mac and slows the whole machine down.
My next attempt to will be to try installing Windows XP on my playstation 3 and then installing warhammer online. If i can install XP on playstation 3 i will have myself a freakin super computer (a dual quad core cell processor can dish out some serious power). I will post more about my experiment later this week. Till then, i’ll be holding my breath.
