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About every 6 months I do some Googling to see if I can get Homeworld to run on my Mac. I still have fond memories of playing it in my freshman dorm room 12 years ago.

This technique reminds of silhouette preservation techniques in computer graphics that I had done for my senior project. Anyone know if it's related?

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I don't what kind of Mac you've got but I have been running Earth & Beyond (an MMO from 10 years ago) at high framerates in Virtualbox on my 2011 iMac. I did have to enable experimental D3D support.

There are many wineskin / cider wrappers that exist for HW2. The only problem is that multiplayer won't work.

Also, sadly, wine does not have "pbuffer" support, that is used by HW2 to render shadows. So it makes the game look a bit bland when comparing it to how it used to look back in the day. I also think running the game in Parallells or VMware has the same problem.

Im not even sure that current gfx cards and drivers support this under Windows 7 anymore.

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25495

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