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Gameplay => General Discussion => Topic started by: Cha0s on April 03, 2004, 07:43:05 pm

Title: PS for Mac OS X
Post by: Cha0s on April 03, 2004, 07:43:05 pm

I\'ve been really excited about Planeshift for months... but now I\'m starting to get a bit bored with it. I\'ve heard stuff is happening for a Mac OS X version, but just watching the forums and main news site I haven\'t seen any real progress. It\'s been months, and still nothing. Does anyone know how long it\'s projected to take for a good OS X version to be running? Does anyone know if there\'s a progress log around somewhere so I can keep up to date (and perhaps prevent my slide into total apathy...)?

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Post by: Ghostslayer on April 03, 2004, 08:48:51 pm

From the sounds of things, a Mac release will happen probobly a bit after CB.  There are a few people using a Mac that have built the CVS version and apparantly it works fairly well.

If you want a more accurate answer, you could always go to the pub dev channel, and one of the people helping to work on the Mac release may be there.

Edit: Typo

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Post by: Cha0s on April 04, 2004, 05:17:24 am

If the Mac version is working fairly well why is projected to be released AFTER Crystal Blue?

EDIT: I want it now! Now, now, now! :P (jk... :) )

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Post by: dfryer on April 06, 2004, 04:18:24 am

The reason for a slightly post-CB release date is that none of the people on the dev team have Macs, just a few of us people on the \"fringe\".  It seems that they\'d rather not distribute all the art etc. to J. Random Hacker who says he/she wants to make a mac build, to prevent nasty leaks from happening.  If they give one or two of the mac users a few weeks warning and the game data, it would be possible to test and do a simultaneous release.  Still, expect a whole new round of trouble - the community now has experience diagnosing problems arising from weird linux/windows configs, now we\'re going to have to adapt to weird mac configs.