Mac Version of Spore CC Uses Code From WINE

Instead of making an actual port of the Spore Creature Creator for Mac, it appears EA has simply bundled WINE code (see the 'transgaming' folder inside the app bundle) in with a Windows-compatible .exe file (it's something called Cider that they talked about at some developer conference a while back). This is pretty depressing for the whole "gaming on Macs" crowd, but it brings up some interesting thoughts about getting it to work on Linux.This may not reflect much on the standard WINE install, since Transgaming has a spotty history of contributing back to the WINE community, but I'm hoping I...

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HandBrake Dependencies List

Update (8/24/10): I wrote this post a long time ago and the dependencies have changed quite a bit since then, so here's an updated list. I'll leave the old post untouched for posterity. These are intended for use on a Debian-based system and can be pasted into an 'apt-get install' command:build-essential autotools-dev libtool libgudev-1.0-dev intltool autoconf yasm libbz2-dev zlib1g-dev libwebkit-dev libnotify-dev libgstreamer0.10-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev wget subversion python python-gtk2-devYou'll need to add libdvdcss2 to this list to work with copy-protected DVDs.Original post:...

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