Macbook, bootcamp, and older games
Hi
I am really new to gaming--so gamers go easy.
I will be installing XP via Bootcamp on my Macbook with the GMA X3100 chipset. I know that newer games, i.e. Fallout 3, won't play. But what I would like to do is play older PC games like Blade Runner, Bad Mojo, Fallout 1 and 2, GTA III, etc. gog.com and Steam have lots of older games I've never played--and I am content catching up on some of the classics.
Any thoughts? Will games from 4-5 years ago (and older) work OK?
Many thanks
As long as your games are compatible with XP they should be OK.
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Mostly because Windows itself (courtesy of Microsoft) does not support this either.
There is one how-to, that claims to let you install Windows on an external harddisk, see here: http://tubeshards.wordpress.com/2006/12/05/install-windows-to-a-macintosh-usb-dr ive/
But as you can see, it is quite a hassle and not for the faint-hearted
If you don't want to go that way, your only choice is to install Leopard on your internal HD and use the external for Tiger.
Since you have a 'Windows' partition on your external HD, that is big enough, you can use it to clone your internal Tiger partition to that using SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner and after verifying that the new Tiger partition is bootable, clone your Leopard from the external to the internal HD.
After both your OSXs are set and checked, you can then run the BootCamp Assistant from Leopard to install Windows on your internal HD.
And at last you can cleaar-up your external HD of everything you don't want/need anymore.
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