OS question.

evilleryan · 04-29-2006, 07:09 PM

Hi...

Sorry if this has been asked before, but I deal with two different OS each day.

At home, I use a PC.

At work, I use a Mac.

Now, I'm not saying I'd ever do something like play OOTP at work, but if I did, could I use the same license to operate one game on my PC at home, and on my Mac at work?

emysdk · 04-29-2006, 07:44 PM

The electronic licensing software being used by SI for the mac is different from the e-licence software used for the PC (because e-licence don't do macs, apparently), so you'd need to buy seperate licences for each I'm afraid.

This thread should contain all the answers.

Cras · 04-29-2006, 08:08 PM

That sucks

emysdk · 04-29-2006, 08:10 PM

Yeah, but it seems to have been unavoidable. This time around, anyway

Marc Duffy · 04-30-2006, 03:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Cras

That sucks

If you've any suggestions, please feel free to let me know

bababui · 04-30-2006, 03:23 AM

The user could buy the Win version and copy the elicense#. Then, logging in under his board name request a cert for a Mac lisence. When he logs in again on the same account on the Mac and send an email to marketing with that # he could be given a confirmation #to get the Mac e license. That way both IP#s would be on record with SI before the license was issued.

Would this work?

Malleus Dei · 04-30-2006, 09:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Marc Duffy

If you've any suggestions, please feel free to let me know

He should change employers so that he has a PC both places.

Cras · 04-30-2006, 09:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Marc Duffy

If you've any suggestions, please feel free to let me know

There is the rub isn't it. The situation is what sucks, not what SI is doing. Believe me, when it comes to developers and publishers, SI has to be the only one that I have never had a problem with.

Cras · 04-30-2006, 09:17 AM

Plus, you shouldn't be playing on the job anyway!

Malleus Dei · 04-30-2006, 10:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Cras

Plus, you shouldn't be playing on the job anyway!

That's the real point.

Hey, you! Get back to work!

OakDragon · 04-30-2006, 01:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Malleus Dei

He should trade in his PC so that he has a Mac both places.

Fixed that for ya!

MorseMoose · 04-30-2006, 01:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Malleus Dei

He should change employers so that he has a PC both places.

Or do the smart thing and get a Mac at home.

Cras · 04-30-2006, 01:35 PM

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Originally Posted by MorseMoose

Or do the smart thing and get a Mac at home.

Gorilla Shakespeare · 04-30-2006, 02:16 PM

The only Mac that should be at home is the Mac Daddy. And I am already at home.

Malleus Dei · 04-30-2006, 02:21 PM

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Originally Posted by MorseMoose

Or do the smart thing and get a Mac at home.

The smart thing would be to never use a damned Mac in the first place.

One of the units I used to supervise used Macs (now they use PC's). You couldn't give me a Mac.

Apple's share of the worldwide PC market, 1996: 4.6 percent

Apple's share of the worldwide PC market, 2005: 2.2 percent

Can you say "doomed and on its way out"? Of course you can.

Market share data from Mercury News at:

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/sil...g/14191452.htm

Malleus Dei · 04-30-2006, 02:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Gorilla Shakespeare

The only Mac that should be at home is the Mac Daddy.

LOL.

MorseMoose · 04-30-2006, 02:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Malleus Dei

stats

All your stats say is that people don't know quality products.

I can use stats to to back that up.

Remember, 47.9% of America voted for Bush in 2000.
And, 50.7% of America voted for Bush in 2004.

^ Joke

Cras · 04-30-2006, 03:39 PM

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Originally Posted by MorseMoose

All your stats say is that people don't know quality products.

I can use stats to to back that up.

Remember, 47.9% of America voted for Bush in 2000.
And, 50.7% of America voted for Bush in 2004.

^ Joke

To be honest, the other guy in those elections were no standouts either.

Bush - Who can't speak
Gore - Who claimed to have invented speech itself
Kerry - Who said so many contradictory things I lost track

MorseMoose · 04-30-2006, 03:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Cras

To be honest, the other guy in those elections were no standouts either.

Bush - Who can't speak
Gore - Who claimed to have invented speech itself
Kerry - Who said so many contradictory things I lost track

Yet the other two guys would have been far better Presidents.

OT: I'm watching the movie your sig is from right now and it was on earlier today also.

Cras · 04-30-2006, 03:49 PM

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Originally Posted by MorseMoose

Yet the other two guys would have been far better Presidents.

We will never know.

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Originally Posted by MorseMoose

OT: I'm watching the movie your sig is from right now and it was on earlier today also.

Excellent choice.

04-29-2006, 07:09 PM	#1
evilleryan Bat Boy Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Evansville, Indiana Posts: 3	OS question. Hi... Sorry if this has been asked before, but I deal with two different OS each day. At home, I use a PC. At work, I use a Mac. Now, I'm not saying I'd ever do something like play OOTP at work, but if I did, could I use the same license to operate one game on my PC at home, and on my Mac at work?

04-29-2006, 08:08 PM	#3
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04-29-2006, 07:44 PM	#2
emysdk Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 276	The electronic licensing software being used by SI for the mac is different from the e-licence software used for the PC (because e-licence don't do macs, apparently), so you'd need to buy seperate licences for each I'm afraid. This thread should contain all the answers.

04-29-2006, 08:10 PM	#4
emysdk Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 276	Yeah, but it seems to have been unavoidable. This time around, anyway

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bababui Hall Of Famer Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 14,147 Infractions: 0/1 (1)	The user could buy the Win version and copy the elicense#. Then, logging in under his board name request a cert for a Mac lisence. When he logs in again on the same account on the Mac and send an email to marketing with that # he could be given a confirmation #to get the Mac e license. That way both IP#s would be on record with SI before the license was issued. Would this work?

04-30-2006, 02:16 PM	#14
Gorilla Shakespeare Banned Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 405	The only Mac that should be at home is the Mac Daddy. And I am already at home.