Playing Grim Fandango on Mac

[vict0r]

Well, I've recently got this game into my head and now I'm kinda obsessed. I NEED to play this game! I miss it so much and, well.. It's just a perfect game that I have to play. The only problem is that I'm on a Macbook. I've tried to play with residual, but I'm basically stuck with it and it's not going anywhere.
Will it work with Bootcamp without major problems? I really, really need to play this game!

[enkerro]

Bootcamp is basically a native windows installation, there shouldn't be any problem.

[Erwin_Br]

Too bad Scumm VM doesn't support it. (yet?)

--Erwin

[Stupot]

Click Here for a small Patch

[deadsuperhero]

Click Here for a small Patch

Shame on you, sir. Shame on you.
Oh wait, I have Ubuntu! WTF am I worried about?

[voh]

Worked fine using XP on my macbook (obviously through bootcamp).

[vict0r]

Sounds good! I just have to find some source of XP with SP2 then... Thanks for help all people who didn't actually reccommend Vista!

[Bluesman]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_%28philosophy%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vista%2C_New_York

Explains a lot.

[covox]

I can say that my lovely $5 post-office edition of Grim Fandango works both under XP and the latest Wine (however due to the terrible way graphics worked in 1998, 3D acceleration must be turned OFF).

Too bad Scumm VM doesn't support it. (yet?)

There's an alpha engine for LUA based adventures (i.e. MI4 and GF) called Residual, available from the ScummVM SVN.

I actually met one of the fantastic blokes who head the ScummVM project. He told me that the main reason why Residual is a bit neglected was the unfinished savegame support; apparently there's only so many times Grim Fandango can be unsuccessfully played from the start without the tester going nuts.