There were more times that you needed to buy the game again for another platform than owing it once made it okay to play it on others.
If the Mac version didn't come with the PC version this is probably such a case...

Fair enough. What makes it all the more frustrating is that a friend gave me his copy back in the day (we used to Deathmatch in the office at lunch time) and I can't find it! I bet there's a copy in a charity shop somewhere...

Is the Mac version even remotely compatible to the PC and Linux versions?

I remember there was a Mac version of Unreal 1 but it is not compatible with the PC version at all.

DracoNihil wrote:

Is the Mac version even remotely compatible to the PC and Linux versions?

I remember there was a Mac version of Unreal 1 but it is not compatible with the PC version at all.

Apparently the 436 patch breaks network gaming with Windows clients. I'm planning a series of articles and videos on Mac retro gaming and one on cross platform gaming would be pretty awesome. I had problems playing a LAN game of UT2004 between Windows and OSX and never bothered to try and fix it.

Note that this forum is for the emulation of Mac hardware, not running things on real Mac hardware.

Moved to Milliways for the time being.

I think the incompatibility problems arise from big endian vs little endian, but that's stretching it because one could just simply convert via software to maintain binary compatibility...

In the end I imagine Mac users just Darwine the windows version of Unreal and UT99. Linux users can play Unreal and UT99 in Linux, the former via 227 and the latter via Loki Software. The Loki Software UT99 is compatible with PC version UT99.

Ah yes, the endian issue - I forgot about that! On that basis it shouldn't be an issue with a universal app i.e. Intel vs Intel.

Yes it shouldn't ba an issue if there were an Universal ppc/intel release. But just judging by release time, UT was released for classic OS at a time when there was no OS X yet and there weren't intel Macs.