![]() This time, however, EA decides to add not only Expansion Packs, but Stuff Packs. So again, Asypr is hired to port the game to the Mac. Again, we have Macs with a different OS and still they are using the Power PC chip. The game ran smoothly and we rejoiced.įast forward to 2005, and Sims 2 is ported to the Mac. ![]() ![]() Aspyr would recompile the Mac code, produce the CD/DVD of the game and handle all the patches and whatnot for us Mac folks. It took at least 6 months or so to this, so we got the games and expansions 6 months after the Windows players. Because the Mac used a different type of processing chip (commonly called the Power PC architecture) and of course a different operating system (OS), the game had to literally be translated from Windows into Mac. Ok, The Sims (now commonly known as Sims 1) was ported to the Mac OS by a company called Westlake Interactive for a company called Aspyr for EA/Maxis. Sherman, set the WayBack machine for 1999/2000. So let me give you a bit of history on the Sims franchise.
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