Well said. And as Yoda might say, patience, yes, yes.
But thou must!
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From: Thomas Ward
Sent: Monday, April 22, 2013 9:58 AM
To: Gamers Discussion list
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] sarah game for mac?
Hi Will,
Its easy to make a request or demand that a certain game developer
port his or her games to Mac, but you also need to consider the
technical expertise and tools to make such a thing possible.
The Sarah game was written in the GMA Engine which requires very
little to no actual programming to develop games. Since the GMA Engine
was written in Visual Basic 6 it will only run on Windows. What you
are proposing is that Phil learn a full blown programming language
like C++ or C# .NET and then rewrite the game from scratch for a OS he
doesn't even own..
Second, in order to develop software for a Mac he would have to
purchase a new Mac running the latest version of Mac OS X on it.
Unlike Linux which is free Phil can't just go out and buy and install
Mac OS on a virtual machine for software development. He needs the
whole works both hardware and software to develop games for Mac.
While I sympathize with your frustration at not having good high
quality games for the Mac rather than complaining about it here is two
options you can do to resolve that problem. One, you can donate the
money or a Mac computer to a developer such as myself who has the
technical expertise to do what you per pose. Two, you can stop wining
about not having games and begin learning how to program games for
your Mac. If you don't like those options, "tough titty said the
kitty."
I am a Linux user myself, and I could make the same complaint that
there aren't a great deal of audio games for Linux. However, the
difference is I am doing something about that problem and have spent
some time this year porting my Evolution Engine to Linux and have
removed the code for DirectX and other Windows APIs and replaced them
with SDL. Rather than expecting Draconis Entertainment, PCs Games, GMA
Games, etc to develop games for me I have plans to port Final
Conflict, Mysteries of the Ancients, Raceway, and everything else I
write to Linux My point being sometimes if you want something bad
enough you just have to do it yourself or pay someone who can..
Cheers!
On 4/22/13, William Lomas <[email protected]> wrote:
hi phil would you consider the sarah game for mac?
why should mac users be told to install windows all the time to run titles
when it is clear their popularity is increasing?
mac users who are blind have no games
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