Re:Apple's Push to Transform the Mac into a Gaming Paradise
by exabrial on Thursday December 28, 2023 @11:13PM
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It'll never happen. Gaming depends heavily on backwards compatibility... something that makes Apple employees shriek and run in terror.
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Re:Apple's Push to Transform the Mac into a Gaming Paradise
by Apocryphon on Thursday December 28, 2023 @11:39PM
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It’s insane they don’t have a compatibility layer for 32-bit macOS apps, so many games were never ever ported to 64-bit.
Re:Apple's Push to Transform the Mac into a Gaming Paradise
by musicale on Friday December 29, 2023 @12:21AM
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It's very disappointing compared to Windows, which has compatibility environments for XP etc.
Re:Apple's Push to Transform the Mac into a Gaming Paradise
by exabrial on Friday December 29, 2023 @11:49PM
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Precisely. No small studio has time to write a whole 3d engine when all they really need is a few plot authors and graphic designers.
Re:Apple's Push to Transform the Mac into a Gaming Paradise
by musicale on Friday December 29, 2023 @12:20AM
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It's a shame how much of my iOS game library is no longer playable. (Not to mention every 32-bit game on iOS and macOS.)
Unlike other platform vendors, Apple's strategy seems to be to ignore backward compatibility and instead dump a yearly maintenance burden on developers.