Hi all, This should be verry interesting for people especially developers if they want to switch there games to the mac without programming anything. Furthermore, there are really no audio games for the Mac, and Game Cider I believe could help.
Here's some info about it. Cider is a sophisticated portability engine that allows Windows games to be run on Intel Macs without any modifications to the original game source code. Cider works by directly loading a Windows program into memory on an Intel-Mac and linking it to an optimized version of the Win32 APIs. Games are simply wrapped up in the Cider engine and they work on the Mac. This means developers only have one code base to maintain while keeping the ability to target multiple platforms. Cider powered games use the same copy protection, lobbies, game matching and connectivity as the original. All this means less work and lower costs. Cider is targeted at game developers and publishers and, unlike Cedega, is not an end user product. The Intel-Mac Explosion Why should developers and publishers consider the Mac market? In the last quarter alone, Apple shipped almost a million Intel Macs, outpacing iPod sales for the first time in 2 years. Ben Reitzes for UBS Investment Research expects Apple to sell over 1.3 million Macs next quarter and between 5.1 and 6.7 million units over the 2006-2007 fiscal year. A poll of Mac purchasers conducted by Apple shows that nearly 50% of buyers are “new to Mac”. This means more and more Windows users are switching to Mac. Furthermore, analyst Charles Wolfe of Needham & Company expects Apple to triple its share of the home computer market. With only a small collection of games available, the Mac gaming market is a void waiting to be filled. To get your games available to Mac users today contact TransGaming at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The link for more info is: http://tinyurl.com/2pwxe9 Hope some developers at least consider it and talk to them with the folks at TranceGaming and see how it all works and at least think about this... _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
