OK, I now own a Macbook Late 09 edition, mainly for music tech and other things, but anyway, I'd like to play Worms Armageddon on it.

I've looked at various options, these are the one's I've seen

- Boot Camp
- Parallels / Fusion Virtual Machine
- Wine
- Crossovers Gaming Edition (£25)

Boot Camp, I have Windows 7 as a boot camp image, but frankly the touchpad drivers are abysmal at the moment (Apple failed to release official Win7 drivers, surprise surprise), which is why I'm not using it much yet.

Parallels Desktop or VMWare Fusion running a Windows XP image is another alternative. Yes, but I've found running Snow Leopard not as RAM friendly, and when I boot up Fusion, it's not that responsive. I'd probably get a RAM upgrade anyway at one point, but not just yet.

Wine is something to look at. I know there were two variants of Wine for OS X pre-compiled, but if I recall from my hackintosh days, one worked, and one buggered up wine for eternity. Today, I can only find WineBottler, which doesn't seem to do much app wise, can install junk, but that's as far as it ever got, I can't run any of my apps.

I've had a brief look at Crossover Gaming Edition, which is Wine, but tweaked and pre-packaged, and cost £26. On the face of it, it looks like a good long term option, and it appears to support the Steam platform (yay I can now play Team Fortress 2)

I'm just looking for suggestions, and to see what other people say. If I had the money (don't have it right here right now) then I'd may have got Crossover, but I'll see. I think once before I got worms running on wine on os x, but that was a long while back.

Anyway, suggestions and guided tours welcomed.

I've not used Win7, but I also have issues with the trackpad in XP when using Bootcamp on my Late 08 MacBook Pro. The only real way to overcome it is to hook up a wired/wireless mouse. I haven't really tried Windows gaming on my MBP though - I only use Windows if I really have to!

I've not used Win7, but I also have issues with the trackpad in XP when using Bootcamp on my Late 08 MacBook Pro. The only real way to overcome it is to hook up a wired/wireless mouse. I haven't really tried Windows gaming on my MBP though - I only use Windows if I really have to!

Same here. I'd probably have to use it to do Delphi work for sixth form computing lessons (Lazarus + Mac = Disaster to work). I've attempted to hook up my mighty mouse via bluetooth, but it's not having it. I'll have to kick it later on.

Also, downloading Crossover Gaming trial, just to try it out.

My bluetooth mighty mouse works fine in XP. Might be you need to install additional drivers in Windows from your OSX installer disk, or download them from the Apple site.

Bluetooth is fine (I connected to various phones a while back).

Anyway, I've downloaded the trial of Crossover, seems to run very smoothly so far.

Well, got Crossover Games to work, with a CD image, ish.

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Game play is fairly responsive, my only issue that I might experience is using the F-Keys, because at the moment they're set to do stuff (i.e. light and media keys), and have to hold Fn key to use the F keys. I can turn it off, but there's also the default mac keys from F8 to F12 doing stuff.

Least I have 6 days to enjoy this before the trial expires on me. I'm still exploring, that's one firm option.

Playing Worms on Fusion, wasn't the best experience. Not brilliant, bit laggy, the VM interface messed up during gameplay.

Not attempted to try out wine fully yet, nor used my boot camp yet, but will consider it. Now that I'm doing more computing work, it's more likely I'll be on Windows, therefore more works.