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[Whaleman]

I will have to clean up here soon... but first, in connection to this topic. Let's do an as complete list as we can produce.

Mac <-> PC Networkable games

4x4 Evolution
4x4 Evolution 2
Aliens vs Predator 2
America's Army
AssaultCube
Battlefield 1942
Battle for Wesnoth
Black Hawk Down
Call of Duty
Call of Duty: United Offensive
Call of Duty 2
Civilization IV - via direct IP or GameSpy
Close Combat: First To Fight
Command & Conquer (The original in OS 8)
Counter Strike: Source
Day of Defeat: Source
Defcon
Deus Ex with multiplayer patch
Diablo
Diablo II (OS 9, OS X)
Dominion 2
Doom 3
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
EVE Online
Freespace 2
DropTeam
Ghost Recon
Globulation 2
Halo
Hearts of Iron 1 & 2
Heretic II
Heroes of Newerth
Hexen II
Jedi Academy (Mods are cross-platform compatible as well)
Jedi Knight II
Killing Floor
Lineage
Lux
Marathon (Aleph One)
Master of Orion 3
Massive Assault
Medal of Honor
Myth II: Soulblighter
Myth III: The Wolf Age
Myth: The Fallen Lords
Neverwinter Nights
Nexuiz
No One Lives Forever
No One Lives Forever 2
OpenArena
Quake
Quake 2
Quake 3
Quake 4
Rainbow Six
Red Faction
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Rogue Spear
Rune
Sauerbraten
Shadowbane
Sin
Shogo
Soldier Of Fortune II
Star Chamber: the Harbinger Saga
Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force
Star Trek: Elite Force II
StarCraft
StarCraft 2
Star Wars: Battlefront (but shaky, needs patch yet to be released)
Team Fortress 2
ThinkTanks
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4
Tremulous - PC and Mac downloads
Tron 2.0
Unreal
Unreal Tournament
Unreal Tournament 2003
Unreal Tournament 2004
WarCraft
WarCraft II
WarCraft III
Warsow
Wakeboarding Unleashed
Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
World of Warcraft
WW2 Online
X-Plane
XIII (requires you to have the IP of a PC server as there is no in game list).

Expansion packs to all listed games usually work as well.

Mac <-> PC networkable demos

DropTeam
UT
UT2k3
UT2k4
Q3
most Q3 engine based MP demos

Just keep 'em coming and I'll add them.. or if something's not correct.. just say so and I'll change it.

[George the Flea]

AvP: Gold Edition is definitively not Mac<->PC network compatible.  This is just misleading to leave it one here.

Apparently it was originally slated to be compatible, but some PC networking code was introduced during its porting that made the porters axe it.

Perhaps someday some enterprising soul will fix this with the freely available source code, but for now it really doesn't deserve to be on this list.

*sigh*

[Edit - Thanks!  Repair made. - tBC]

[Civic]

You forgot Close Combat: First To Fight.

[Edit - Added, thanks! - tBC]

[mrnintendoguy]

The free game Nexuiz is Mac vs PC vs Linux.

[Edit - Added, thanks! - tBC]

[Whaleman]

George the Flea, on September 4th 2005, 09:05 PM, said:

AvP: Gold Edition is definitively not Mac<->PC network compatible.  This is just misleading to leave it one here.

Yeah, I wasn't sure when I did the list originally, hence the questionmark. Thanks for clearing that up.. and tBC to edit it... I wish I still could do it myself.

[Edit - NO!  MINE!!  You just want The Big Red Button back!  Muah hahahahahaha ::runs off to abuse a user while idly sorting through the IMG stack of pr0n:: - tBC]

[macmaxbh]

Is there a list of Mac <-> PC network compatible demos? Are there any Mac <-> PC network compatible demos at all?

[Whaleman]

macmaxbh, on September 11th 2005, 07:34 PM, said:

Is there a list of Mac <-> PC network compatible demos? Are there any Mac <-> PC network compatible demos at all?

UT, UT2k3, UT2k4, Q3, most Q3 engine based MP demos.

Probably a lot more as well, but from the top of my head those pop up.

[the Battle Cat]

Demo question and answers added.

[Stop, Drop, and Roll]

Don't forget Lux - The game of world domination.

[Edit - Added, thanks - tBC]

[Janichsan]

Doom 3 is missing.

[Edit - Added - tBC]

[sabotage]

Should I assume that networkable does not neccessarly mean Internet multiplayer? Since some games use Windows Directplay.

Great list! Exactly what I was looking for, except i'm needing INTERnetwork compatible, not just local network.

Sabo

[George the Flea]

You should probably assume the opposite: that if you can network the game over a local network, you can do it over the internet.  That doesn't mean that all of these games have nice, in-game browsers which connect you to PC opponents, but I don't know of any games on the list that are only LAN friendly and won't allow you to connect remotely.  As far as I know, games with proprietary Windows networking are the ones that aren't on this list because they are only Windows <-> Windows and then, after being ported, Mac <-> Mac.

[Ari]

X-Plane is missing.

[Edit - Added, thank you. - tBC]

[bismilah]

Hearts of Iron 1 & 2 are missing

[Edit - Nuh unh! - tBC]

[Sparky9292]

The only thing that's missing that would be helpful is what OS the mac game is at.

For example, Diablo II works with OSX and OS9

[Edit - Fixed - tBC]

[totallywhacked]

Missing a really great game: Battle for Wesnoth

[Edit - Added! - tBC]

[MaD Ed]

Hi, does anyone know if warrior kings is Mac-PC network compatible?

[mrimac00]

Since when were Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon Mac-PC networkable?

[Sparky9292]

mrimac00, on January 13th 2006, 07:26 PM, said:

Since when were Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon Mac-PC networkable?

Since it says on apple's site:

http://www.apple.com.../10/ghostrecon/  

Quote

Use the Mac-only service GameRanger, or take on Mac and PC players through the game’s multiplayer menu, which uses GameSpy. You can also play Ghost Recon on a local area network (LAN).

I just wish more games were like this.

[calle]

Does anybody know if the new Civilizatin 4 that comes out in a few months will be compatible against PC-users if you want to play online or on a network.

Thankfull for info.

/Calle