Galciv II for Apple? » Forum Post by Klaus1416

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Probably not.

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sorry to hear that.

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Damn me too, need some strategy games for my G4

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Well in my experiance, most people who buy a mac don't buy it planing on playing many games for it. Usually, mac are for vidoe editing and graphics, being 2d or 3d so it should be not suprise that this game is not going ot come out for mac.

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Agreed. It'd be great to have on a Mac. I was thinking about getting one &
having a lengthy game running on it would at least allow me to get more
mileage out of it.

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I hear the mac has 3 great games coming out. They should keep you busy for a while. They are I believe; Pederast Intervention Pro, Poseur Film Student Ver 1.4 (comes with hat you can turn backwards, and a stick on goatee), and Fashion Industry Flaming Homo Tycoon 4.

"MACs are better for sound and graphics!" he yelped before he was knocked out cold in the last round of smear the queer.

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That's harsh. Are you some kind of Bill Gates-loving homophobe? At least Mac is UNIX based.

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I apologize. I have been emotionally scarred in my youth by countless socially retarded individuals relating to me through their spit laced verbalizations that 'the mac is better for sound and graphics'. This to me was wholly ironic with that whole 1984 commecial they had produced, it had resulted in a monolithic group culture where they all spoke and acted as virtual clones, like religious zealots in a land they did not belong in.

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I expect in the near post apocalyptic future to see subterranean warrens populated by a Mac worshipping cult, who only retain a thumb and one finger. And for god sakes, look at the apple. The rainbow apple!
As for the Bill Gates issue, I keep a PC to play games on and do my network work on linux machines. You can get the windows emulator and perhaps it may work for you.

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I'm a linux certified person & I work with Softy's AD for a living. However, I've checked out the new macs since last
year and it has come a long way in just the last 5 years. The latest OS appears to have better tools than Linux &
includes features that aren't available in any OS to date. You might want to go back to their website & take a look
at the new stuff. It's pretty impressive. Also, their development tools, X Code, is free & included with the OS, so you
can build what you want with it. Linux apps can be ported to the system & it has the ability to emulate an X windows
environment, already included. Virtual Machine is not really for game play, I already looked into it as a fallback
for PC games. I've read that it won't take advantage of graphics processors & would be too slow to play PC games
on. So a linux version of the game could probably be compiled to run on Tiger. Just FYI.

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Macs are not only better for sound and graphic. They are the better computers in every parameter - except price.

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If people want to argue that the Mac is the better computer, they should take it up with the Big Apple. It seems he doesn't agree. It seems he doesn't believe that Apples were the better computer for several years now. And that it cannot be, until they join the modern PC world and use its hardware and its software. That's why Apple is switching. It swapped its OS. And now it is swapping its harware. That's all according to Big Apple himself.

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Until someone figures out how to quickly and easily automatically port DirectX code to OGL, I doubt we'll see GC2 for the Mac. If Stardock had used OGL instead of DirectX, it would be much more of a possibility, but I'm still not 100% sure it would be feasable.

Now, what would be cool is if Stardock partnered up with Ambrosia Software to port GC2 to the Mac. Ambrosia recently ported both Uplink and Darwinia to the Mac.

I'd love to have GC2 running on my powerbook... but I know there probably aren't enough people like me out there to make it worth their time or money

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The Mac just doesn't have the same sized audiance as the PC. It has less compatible programs, well at least in a sense of popular programs. What i usally find is people who use Macs tend to only use them so they can be different OR video editing. Although i must admit, Ambrosia software are quite good at what they do.
But the bottem line is, people who want to play games, buy a PC. And PC has proberly 98% of the audiance for games. And if GC2 sells roughly, lets dream, 100,000 copies, then only around 2,000 Mac users would also buy it. Now it would cost a lot of money to produce and most of all publish it as a Mac version as well. So logically that money would be better spent trying to advertise and sell the PC version.
So basically unless they really want to target everyone, they are not going to release it on Macs

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Did you guys hear that Macs are switching to use Intel processors? That should make Virtual PC a lot faster, so it might become more feasible to play games on it. I don't think that it will make it much easier to port games from the PC though.

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People don't buy Macs for games, and if they do, they are stupid

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While it's too soon to tell, given the timeframes for Apple's switch to Intel processors, one may find that new virtualization/hypervisor bits will be part of their OS. Which, granted, would still mean you would need to be running Windows somewhere rather than a native port, but RAM's cheap, especially if you're using it for a game to begin with.

We'll see...

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