Macintosh...ever?

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hi Frogboy,

Though I have a PC, I tend to use my Macintosh more and more, and my next laptop will surely be a Mac. Does Stardock ever plan to release GalCiv II or future games on the Macintosh? I realize much of your revenue is tied up in Windows development, but I believe there is a large, untapped market of Mac users who are into strategy games.
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
Very unlikely, as are potential linux ports. GC2 is based on Microsoft's DirectX and Stardock's own DesktopX, both windows-only technologies.

On the other hand there should be a version of Wine available for Mac soon enough (if you get one of the new Intel based models), and that has a decent chance of being able to play GalCiv.
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
Since Brad keeps saying in "his" podcast that he doesn't have anything against Macs, who knows?
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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
Personally Microsoft Should have crushed Macintosh years ago Windows is just better PCs are more modern more Modable...Everything plus,every Modern game now REQUIRES a PC Why can't everyone accept that macintosh is dead from Computers? Though they still can use the blasted Ipods for a while until Microsoft does the same.
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Personally Microsoft Should have crushed Macintosh years ago Windows is just better PCs are more modern more Modable...Everything plus,every Modern game now REQUIRES a PC Why can't everyone accept that macintosh is dead from Computers? Though they still can use the blasted Ipods for a while until Microsoft does the same.


You look to be confusing "Microsoft" and "PC". Let alone the fact that Windows isn't really better than OS X (besides running on non-proprietary hardware, which is its huge selling point). Macs are still perfectly reasonable for many people because the operating system is more stable, it has a nice GUI, it's UNIX-based, it's secure -- due partly to being UNIXy and partly on its unpopularity.

No more time am I wasting on this, it's a personal preference thing and the Mac user's preference is perfectly reasonable.
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
You look to be confusing "Microsoft" and "PC". Let alone the fact that Windows isn't really better than OS X (besides running on non-proprietary hardware, which is its huge selling point). Macs are still perfectly reasonable for many people because the operating system is more stable, it has a nice GUI, it's UNIX-based, it's secure -- due partly to being UNIXy and partly on its unpopularity.


OSX is more stable then XP is (depending on the hardware XP is running on) because OSX is running on a "limited" set of hardware. So proprietary does have benefits.

In other words Apple only need to provide / develop drivers for a few models of Mac PC's while MS must support trillions of different hardware setups and has the "problem" of many third party hardware drivers (Signed drivers are their for a reason).

As for security. Yes, OSX has plenty of security holes, maybe not as many as XP (Could be wrong here tho) but as OSX has only a small % of the market nobody misuses these. Virus/spyware/etc coders are attention seekers. (IMO)