I just bought a old I mac.. one of the bubble ones that is blue I was cuious if twx or swath or any other helper out there would play on one of these things? Never tried it before! Any reccomnedations would be greatly appreciate

Try: http://twscripter.com/

You can use Wine to run both Swath and TWX Proxy. Swath has problems if you choose to go and use Java. i assume until you install the jre in its wine environment. i never did that though.

i don't play, but i've been trying to see what works and what doesn't on my mac

and TWX Proxy does work with Wine. then just get the mac version of ZOC. and your set.

Does wine work on a mac? I've tried to run TWXproxy under wine in ubuntu, and
the results are less than fantastic. Are the old iMacs even x86?

Really? I been using TWX in Ubuntu 10.04 for a while now. The only problem I have playing TW under linux is in Swath it does not like the screen flooding, tends to go gray but then come back no problem. But TWX has been flawless for me.

I have one of those too... but i don't know where it is... i have a new mac...i partitioned the hard drive and installed windows... then did the obvious and downloaded all other programs i needed... I did all this just to play TW... I use windows for nothing else...

With swath, I've had a problem where a lot of text flooding causes the process to pause for a bit. I've turned off the compiz graying thing, or it would do that too. Swath actually works pretty well in wine, but in the new versions of wine the secondary windows (map, macro editor, etc) don't seem to work... or if they do, they're just covered by the main window.

I've had better luck with swath under the oracle versions of vbox. They've made some substantial improvements to the graphics handling, and outside of massive flooding (which causes problems in wine too), swath is fairly stable and not too slow. I mean it's a little slow, but not completely unusable like the way it was.

For TWXproxy, the problem I've had is that wine isn't entirely stable. Sometimes, for reasons unknown, or for reasons that occur in another wine process, the core wine server will segfault. When that happens, it takes down all wine processes (there might be a way to change that, dunno). Since I'm a 24/7 player, and I use twxproxy or swath to send gridding alarms, I need them to be stable and constantly connected. Random crashes are not good.

Since there's a handful of other programs that I use that don't run very well in wine, and since I come from XP, I've still got my old XP keys and stuff. So when I installed 10.04, I just stuck XP under virtualbox and have been using it. TWXproxy and swath both run perfectly under vbox, and I can run putty under linux and connect it into twxproxy. It takes a little more work, but it means that if swath floods I've got putty as a backup. Outside of competitive games, tho, I don't even bother to load swath anymore. I've had XP run under vbox for weeks on end, so it's proven to be highly stable.

I've really come to like my ubuntu+vbox setup. I can run ubuntu, XP, 7, or win 98 in dos mode, to pretty much run any program out there minus a few of the top-end games (which I don't play much of anyway). This setup makes good use of my quad core.

I roll with vmware fusion, a copy of windows, and twx+swath in that. Works very, very well if your processor supports the optimizations.

You can use virtualbox (http://www.virtualbox.org) if you don't need fusion for any other reason.