Is this possible with the GoG version?

Steam is on to something hot but they are not selling the BG series games.

Thanks for any input.

BG is a Windows game. There never was a Mac version to my knowledge. DOS games can be run a Mac using Dosbox which emulates the entire PC, but that doesn't work for Windows games.

A lot of people use wine to run it. Give it a try

BG2 was available for old Macs, but no longer works on the newer ones with Intel processors.

Warning: I managed to install BG2 on my mac using Wine and I kept getting horrible slowdowns after several hours. Just some friendly advice. I think it's a big waste of time. Don't bother.

edit: Sorry... I was able to play Baldur's Gate using Wine. I had the problems with BG2.

Hi,

I've just made a Cider wrapper for gog's BG2 so that you don't need to install X11 in order to play it (I personally loathe X11 and wine requires it). I can share it with you if you still want it, but can anyone tell me if it is legal do create such wrappers? Not that I'll stop making them if it's not, I'm just curious:D

RGs

Just to clear up a couple misconceptions, BG 1 and 2 were both released for the Mac. I know this for certain as I own both Mac ports myself ;) . Tragically, neither of the expansions were ever ported over to the Mac.

BG 1 was only ever available in the classic OS 9 environment. An OS X executable was included for BG 2, however, and it runs okay under Rosetta (OS X's built-in PPC emulation mode) on an Intel-based Mac.

Like someone said BG1 is for Mac 9 so even if you get a copy of that is hard to emulate (I tried with my copy). I ended up buying the GOG version which adds the expansion and to make it run I use CXG. Only problem is the screen size in full screen which is fixable easy by just un checking 2 settings.

If you get CXG and BG1 GOG version just make a bottle of win xp for it (easy step by step for it on CXG) and once the bottle is done go to manage bottle, control panel, launch the wine config, hit graphic tab and uncheck both "allow the window manager to decorate the windows" and "allow the window manager to control the windows".

After that your game should run perfect in full screen. CXG is like $50 but they have a trial version for 7 days if you want to try it for yourself before buying it. BTW this works with most D&D games in GOG (BG1, BG2, IWD1, IWD2). Planescape I'm still working on it to make it work full screen but it does run window mode and ToEE doesn't need all this to run on CXG. And last NWN has some bad bug for the videos but there is a fix which it did work for me but I can't remember what it was, just search it. I hope this help.

Check out gemrb, it may be what you're looking for. If I understand it correctly you'll still need the datafiles from the windows version.

http://gemrb.sourceforge.net/wiki/doku.php?id=start

Clearing up further misconceptions:

Baldur's Gate 1 and Tales of the Sword Coast were released for OS 9, no native OS X version was released. There are extensive instructions on the net for playing BG1 using the BG2 engine, which:

Baldur's Gate 2 and Throne of Bhaal were released with both native OS 9 and OS X versions. The OS X version is a Carbon app and so needs Rosetta to run on an Intel Mac, meaning it will not run under 10.7, which eliminates Rosetta.

I know this for certain as I own all four. :)