4Story port request

[xingmaster90@…]

I was wondering if the game 4Story would be able to be ported to the Mac, currently it runs on Windows, though I hate having to use my Partition to play it. Please let me know with any updates, Thank you.

[mf2k (Frank Schima)]

A link would be helpful.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

I assume you are talking about ​http://global.4story.com/

We at MacPorts don't really "port" software (meaning: take software designed for one platform and rewrite it so it works on another platform). Rather, we take software that can already be built and installed on a Mac, and make it easy to install and update. If this is a Windows-only game, then there isn't really anything we can do. Ask the developers to make a Mac version. After they have done so, we can investigate whether making a port in MacPorts would help anything.

If it is a Windows-only game, it is possible you could run it under Mac OS X using Wine (either the wine port, or the wine-devel port, or the wine-crossover-games port). No guarantee this will work though.

Other alternatives include running the game in Windows in a virtual machine under Mac OS X, using a program such as VMware Fusion or Parallels Desktop. These cost money of course and you'll also need a Windows license, and performance usually suffers somewhat, in comparison to running Windows directly on the hardware using Boot Camp.