Can I play this game on a MAC?

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You can't get an emulator for Mac--You must simply buy it [UT] for $15.
if you could, I KNOW my friend would play all the great games I play on PC--Poor guy.

Playing UT over an emulated platform wouldn't be very efficient.
Good luck.....

I tried UT under a PC emulator just for fun ... well i couldn't find the fun out of crappy 3 fps with lagging mouse

Technically, the Mac and PC version are NOT the same software (though a good lawyer could argue on that) so you'll have to buy the Mac version or try to get the PC version working.

emulators will not access hardware correctly so playing it with something like Virtual PC will make you play in software rendering with very inefficient processing speed due to the emulation. don't even bother.

I've been playing the mac version of UT since the demo. My fps are lower than most (course my comp is older than most it seems too :/) but it's definitely playable.

Macs simply wernt designed with advanced Gaming in mind. yes, Macs are good office tools, they are more stable (blame windows, not the PC itself) but you can easily run alot of apps that will also run on PC on them. but, on the extreme, most anything that runs on a MAC runs on a PC too, and PC parts are alot more common. i havent yet found out why people like macs, and prolly never will. just realise that the MAC verison of UT lacks UED or UCC, and cant run alot of mods.

I get good frame rates on my 18-month old mac (G3 and Rage 128 do a good job). You can always dl the demo version for Mac and try it, though it is something like 50 Megs.

As for why some people prefer macs: Beginners have an easier time with them because they all work the way they're supposed to with Mac software and peripherals. And for advanced computer scientists like myself, I consider the basic architecture and machine instruction set logically superior to the ass-backwards Intel processors (and imitations), and the OS'es for PCs have huge low-level design flaws (except for Unix ports), notably a lack of black-box modularity. Maybe XP will change that.

Why PCs are so popular is that they have high horse power at a low cost and, as you say, the widest range of software available. This appeals to most consumers and professionals. Why Apple is not more competitive with their products, I don't understand. Well, after all, the Amiga was the best computer ever made in its time and Commodore ran it into the grave.

Sorry for rambling. BTW almost every mod I've added works fine, and I've tried most of them. In fact the only one I KNOW doesn't work is Unloaded because it adds its own Windows .dll extensions.