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Re:Apple's game porting toolkit is fantastic. Cyberpunk 2077... by bombcar on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @10:29AM (#36227216)
For a large number of customers, Macs play games just fine (you can get SimCity 4 for Silicon, heh).

It's not the top of the line, but it covers a decent swath, even without doing emulation or translation.

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Re:Apple's game porting toolkit is fantastic. Cyberpunk 2077... by artificial on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @11:02AM (#36227674)
SimCity 4 was released in 2003.
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Re:Apple's game porting toolkit is fantastic. Cyberpunk 2077... by bombcar on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @11:02AM (#36227685)
Yep. The surprising thing is that Asypr bothered updating a 20 year old game for Apple Silicon. https://support.aspyr.com/hc/en-us/articles/12168615035405-H...
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Re:Apple's game porting toolkit is fantastic. Cyberpunk 2077... by dunham on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @12:25PM (#36229061)
That is interesting - I bought KOTOR 2 a couple years ago for my kid and ended up having to get a refund it because it didn't run at all (on intel). It just wedged when I clicked play. No response from Aspyr, so I'd assumed they abandoned their older games.
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Re:Apple's game porting toolkit is fantastic. Cyberpunk 2077... by bombcar on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @12:30PM (#36229166)
I think they did it because they still sell SC4 via the App Store, but I'm not sure. Maybe someone there is just a huge SC4 fan.
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