Anarchy Online in wine on Mac

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Anarchy online doesn't have a Mac client so I'm wondering if it will run in wine. I don't want to run it in bootcamp, and I don't quite feel like running it in a VM since I have to reset afterwards anyways.

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A friend of mine has made good experiences with running it with wine under Linux and WineHQ gives it a "Gold" rating.

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