YankeeDog Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 Thought the other Mac owners 'round here might like to have this pointed out; from the "What's Shakin'" thread, from the horse's mouth, so to speak: Originally posted by Battlefront.com: Oh, and yes... baring some sort of unforeseen technical disaster, CMx2 will be MacOS X native in the near future. However, the hardware might very well be a big issue. We will not purposefully exclude support for PPC G4 and G5 chipsets, but we will also not devote much time to making CM work on them. If push comes to shove, we will support Intel based Macs only. The reason for that is quite simple... the PPC family is effectively dead. The hardware is already at least 2 years out of date and getting more out of date every day. Most of the PPC systems made earlier than 2 years ago probably aren't even powerful enough to run CM acceptably anyway, so why waste development time on the handful of systems that were made just prior to the changeover to Intel when that handful gets smaller each day as laptops crap out (I have a G4 that went tits up like so many others!) or are made 2nd systems when a newer Mac is added to the home? It's really not a smart move. We'll just have to see how it goes. And of course we'll keep you informed Steve With a new iMac, I'm happy. Tho I am now starting to wonder why the heck I bothered to pay for a copy of Win 98 to put on my Boot Camp partition. Once I have a good game or two that will run in OSX, I'm not at all sure what I need Windoze for anymore. Now, if BFC can engineer a simplified version of CMSF that can be played on a iPod Touch, I might even join the teeming masses of iPodHeads. . . Cheers, YD 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 Whenever I pick up a small device, I tend to write a couple of small games for it, usually incredibly dry wargames. I think a wargame would have to be pretty simplified to make sense on an Ipod touch though. Ever thought of rolling your own? I'm excited about the Mac release as well. Between CM:SF and Eve I might actually spend time gaming on my Macbook. (!!!) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gibsonm Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 See, told you something was coming. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YankeeDog Posted December 5, 2007 Author Share Posted December 5, 2007 Originally posted by Phillip Culliton: Whenever I pick up a small device, I tend to write a couple of small games for it, usually incredibly dry wargames. I think a wargame would have to be pretty simplified to make sense on an Ipod touch though. Ever thought of rolling your own? I'm excited about the Mac release as well. Between CM:SF and Eve I might actually spend time gaming on my Macbook. (!!!) Well, I was mostly kidding. But as to your suggestion to "rolling my own," it's been a long time since I was the best in my 5th-grade class at programming LOGO and Applesoft BASIC on the classroom Apple II+, but if I ever have idle time to get back into programming again, maybe I'll give it a shot. That old Apple II+ I used to program on has equivalent processing power to, what, a $9.99 digital alarm clock these days? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 Originally posted by Battlefront.com: If push comes to shove, we will support Intel based Macs only. The reason for that is quite simple... the PPC family is effectively dead. The hardware is already at least 2 years out of date and getting more out of date every day. Most of the PPC systems made earlier than 2 years ago probably aren't even powerful enough to run CM acceptably anyway, so why waste development time on the handful of systems that were made just prior to the changeover to Intel when that handful gets smaller each day...So much for my "smart move" in buying a G5 Quad! Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battlefront.com Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 Let's just hope that the G5, at least, can be supported. It's really up to how good the compiler is at backwards support. Steve 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kettler Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 Yankee Dog, Don't know about you, but I'd like to be able to play TOW (out already) and HistWar:Les Grognards (still in dev), neither of which is planned to have a Mac version, thus your investment, assuming you care about either game, is far from wasted. Regards, John Kettler 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YankeeDog Posted December 5, 2007 Author Share Posted December 5, 2007 Originally posted by John Kettler: Yankee Dog, Don't know about you, but I'd like to be able to play TOW (out already) and HistWar:Les Grognards (still in dev), neither of which is planned to have a Mac version, thus your investment, assuming you care about either game, is far from wasted. Regards, John Kettler Ya, I'm sure I'll continue to find a use for the Boot Camp partition in one way or another. If nothing else, it's reassuring to know it's there, just in case there's some Windoze program I really need to be able to use. Thing is, I only really have time in my life for one, at most two games. So once CMSF goes OSX native, it's likely to be my first choice. Any other game would have to be significantly better for me to go to the trouble of booting into Windows in order to play it. And my Second choice game usually goes to some mindless fps that I play every once in a while when I just want a quick mindless 20 minutes of killing/blowing stuff up. But I have a Playstation for that. One a related note, did anyone else see the recent PCmag.com article that rated the MacBook Pro the fastest Windows Vista notebook for 2007? Oh, the irony. . . :cool: Cheers, YD 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kettler Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 YankeeDog, Roger. Improved, OS X native CMSF it is! As for your second choice game, my friend and I call that activity kill therapy, which we now perform on his XBox 360 and find very good for stress relief, if for no other reason than that total concentration on, say, Halo 3 is required. The last item's too funny. Splendid irony indeed! Regards, John Kettler 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wicky Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 Originally posted by Michael Emrys: So much for my "smart move" in buying a G5 Quad! Michael [/QB]I'll join you on that - Dual G5 PPC 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VonWebb Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 THANK F'ING GOD! :cool: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grunt_GI Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 This is truly awesome news...what a great Xmas present from Battlefront. And if it is 1.05 improved...wow...I am waiting to buy a new Macbook...maybe I will scrape up enough to get the PRO just to play CMSF.... Of course, I will still have to get XP to play CMx1....can't let it go yet!! Please keep us posted.. P.S. small question, does the eLicencse allow you to play the game without the CD once it is registered? That would be great for battery life.... Thanks...glad to see everyone back... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skelley Posted December 6, 2007 Share Posted December 6, 2007 Will it take advantage of the Mac Pro's 4 cores? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skelley Posted December 6, 2007 Share Posted December 6, 2007 I have 4 gigs o ram in my Mac Pro and am running CMSF through bootcamp. Windows only recognizes 2 gigs, so I am wondering wether the extra to gigs I would get by running it in Mac OS would be enough horsepower to be worth buying the CMX2 in Mac format. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gibsonm Posted December 6, 2007 Share Posted December 6, 2007 Originally posted by grunt_GI: This is truly awesome news...what a great Xmas present from Battlefront. And if it is 1.05 improved...wow...I am waiting to buy a new Macbook...maybe I will scrape up enough to get the PRO just to play CMSF.... Of course, I will still have to get XP to play CMx1....can't let it go yet!! Please keep us posted.. P.S. small question, does the eLicencse allow you to play the game without the CD once it is registered? That would be great for battery life.... Thanks...glad to see everyone back... Well I’d suspect that the Mac version will be later than 1.05 (can’t say if it will be 1.06 or 1.XX) as only prelim work has been done on it at this stage. Yes, the eLicense allows you to play without the CD in the drive. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gibsonm Posted December 6, 2007 Share Posted December 6, 2007 Originally posted by skelley: I have 4 gigs o ram in my Mac Pro and am running CMSF through bootcamp. Windows only recognizes 2 gigs, so I am wondering wether the extra to gigs I would get by running it in Mac OS would be enough horsepower to be worth buying the CMX2 in Mac format. If your performance under Windows is fine (as is mine) then I’d say the Mac native version will be fine too (esp. with another 2Gb of RAM available). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skelley Posted December 6, 2007 Share Posted December 6, 2007 But I am wondering if the improved performance with 4 gigs would be worth the purchase price of the mac version or if it is not enough to notice and should just stay with the pc version. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gibsonm Posted December 6, 2007 Share Posted December 6, 2007 Well to be honest I don’t know (as it doesn’t exist yet). All I can say is that as a tester incredibly keen to see the Mac version work that I can give some feedback about my own machines (I have a G5 as well) performance in due course. But I suspect that wont be until the early new year at the very (and unlikely) earliest. If the performance is similar then you have to workout for yourself if the convenience of not rebooting, having other Mac apps run in the background, etc. is worth the purchase price. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geo B Posted December 6, 2007 Share Posted December 6, 2007 How about a date guys! I'm willing to buy CM:SF just to let you know we Mac guys buy games and we can't wait for the CMx2 version of Beyond Overlord! (since I'm having to play CM:BO using Parallels under WinXP) As for the Intel/PPC thing, I'm OK if you only support Intel hardware, as you say the G5 platform is two years old. As long as my 2.2 GHz MacBook Pro runs it, I'm good. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gibsonm Posted December 6, 2007 Share Posted December 6, 2007 Well that would be the $64K question. But as I said before I’m not expecting a Beta to test this side of Christmas so I wouldn’t be holding my breath (nor complaining) if it isn’t in stores on 1/1/08. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jarmo Posted December 6, 2007 Share Posted December 6, 2007 G4's are pretty much dead in the water now, but there are a good number of G5's and G5 iMacs that are still quite current in performance terms. Doesn't affect me though, I have an intel iMac. So that's one copy sold at least... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geo B Posted December 6, 2007 Share Posted December 6, 2007 Hmmm how do we sign up as beta testers? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gibsonm Posted December 7, 2007 Share Posted December 7, 2007 Invitation only, I’m afraid and I don’t get to issue them. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grunt_GI Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 Steve and/or Madmatt, Small question and hope it isn't too annoying. How long (roughly) do you think it will be for the Mac OSX version? I am getting my new MBP 17" this week and as soon as I load XP on Boot Camp, all my CM games will be next so the question is: * Immediate gratification and by the Windoze version or * wait for the goodness of a Mac native version? I am leaning toward instant gratification since I have to boot into XP to play my other CM, but would wait a short period for a OS X version.....any clue? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aka_tom_w Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 instant gratification FWIW 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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