Obligatory Mac release thread

[harlequ1n]

I swear I searched for a previous thread on this and it yielded nothing.

Even fearing general reproach, I'd like to know if there are any plans to port the game to Mac OS X once the logical Windows original has been released. Now that Steam has made the big leap forward, could you possibly benefit from their SDK to port the game?

I'll be buying the game for Windows anyway... good old Boot Camp will have to suffice.

[Rhis]

Originally Posted by harlequ1n

I swear I searched for a previous thread on this and it yielded nothing.

Even fearing general reproach, I'd like to know if there are any plans to port the game to Mac OS X once the logical Windows original has been released. Now that Steam has made the big leap forward, could you possibly benefit from their SDK to port the game?

I'll be buying the game for Windows anyway... good old Boot Camp will have to suffice.

There definitely was one! The answer is that we need to concentrate on getting the game completed for Windows before we can even start looking into other platforms.

The main stumbling block is that there is no DirectX for mac.

[deimos]

Is it possible to enable searching for three-letter words? Searching for "mac" returns a "too short" error. It's not too short!

[Rhis]

Here you go, although it started with Linux.

http://www.grimdawn.com/forums/showt...ghlight=lugaru

[harlequ1n]

Thanks for the link Rhis. I just hope someday small (and big) developers can free themselves from the chains of DirectX.

[jiaco]

I previously never cared about this, had my mac as a laptop, linux at work and XP at home, basically just for TQ and MAME.

But I got a new macbook and TQ (on 7RC in boot camp) runs better on this machine than on my asus laptop. (sure it was twice the price but, damn these macs are pretty.)

But now, finding myself looking at the bill for my 7 upgrade, damn. Its just not gonna happen. Sure 7 is "better" than xp but not by much and there is still all the senseless windows crap like drive letters, backslashes, the registry, virus scanners, malware scanners, spyware scanners and, well basically windows is just not very fun anymore. Except for the games...

I guess I should get off my butt and figure out what is holding TQ back from working flawlessly with Wine/Crossover. But, I think I am gonna go farm the secret secret passage instead.

[Void(null)]

Originally Posted by jiaco

But now, finding myself looking at the bill for my 7 upgrade, damn. Its just not gonna happen. Sure 7 is "better" than xp but not by much and there is still all the senseless windows crap like drive letters, backslashes, the registry, virus scanners, malware scanners, spyware scanners and, well basically windows is just not very fun anymore. Except for the games...

Putting the fun back in Windows:

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CCleaner

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[jiaco]

Thanks but really, no thanks. Sure I use Firefox on all my OSes but the rest of the stuff is not FUN. I dont care if it is free or not. And now that Oracle owns Mysql, OO, and virtualbox, I am trying to get myself away from those things as well. my point is, on my mac, I have basically installed nothing. Of course there is nothing to do but browse email and the web. But if I could also play TQ, then I would not have to install Avast, Malbites, etc...

In fact, my gaming rig is password locked just to keep the wife off of it so it does not have to run any anti-ware. Boots and shuts down it under 5 seconds and is the finest tuned xp machine I have ever worked on.

Anyway, OT, the only point is for crate, maybe not GD but eventually you should try to prune yourselves off directx and move to opengl or whatever diablo2/3 is using to be easily cross platform. windows is on its way out, by the time they get the oil out of the gulf...

[ASYLUM101]

Originally Posted by jiaco

windows is on its way out, by the time they get the oil out of the gulf...

hahaha, you think they'll actually be able to get all that oil out? IIRC, that rig is STILL pumping out oil.

[harlequ1n]

I feel exactly like jiaco. I'm not very fond of babysitting my OS for the only purpouse of occasional gaming, that's why for us Mac users Windows is a festering wound to our HDD.