Can you developers make Sins of a Solar Empire for Mac OSX?

Can you developers make Sins of a Solar Empire for Mac OSX? That would be cool! Are you planning that? :NOTSURE:
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can you make Sins for Nintendo 64??! pretty please!!!

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There was a thread about this and the answer was no.

You can run it under WINE if you have a Linux distro, though.
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i want on my iPhone make it now please.
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The OP made a post complaining about the lack of linux support too, please don't feed the trolls.
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I am not a troll...


get losttt troll
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Nothing wrong with wanting Sins for other platforms, guys. Show some love.
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Considering the box says "Games for Windows" you can pretty much forget official support for other OS's.
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[insert inflammatory statement regarding games and OSX/Windows (pick one) here]

It just wouldn't be an OS discussion thread without it.
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I want to see Sins of a Solar Empire on the Commodore 64. Come on Ironclad and Stardock, you're missing out on a huge demographic here. ;)
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Mac Users don't count as people. So, using that logic there is no market there.
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Mac Laptops have been taking serious market share in the high end (over $1500) consumer laptop segment over the last 12-24 months. I'm not an Apple religious freak, just stating a fact because I work in the PC industry. I have 4 or 5 PC desktops and laptops and a single MacBook Pro Laptop. My MacBook Pro is gradually taking over as my primary (for a variety of reasons I won't get into here). However, I travel a lot and I desperately need good offline single player games on long plane rides. Obviously, my single greatest pain point has been the inability to play GalCiv2 and Sins. Thankfully, Apple delivered their Leopard OS, with Boot Camp, allowing me to create a partitioned, bootable full Windows experience on the Apple Hardware (but you have to buy a copy of Windows as well). Anyway, Boot Camp saved my travelling ass and saves the SD/IC folk a ton of porting work!
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We don´t want to have just one race in sins.
We don´t want to have just one strategy.
We don´t want to have just one King who rules the world.
We want diversity in our lives, in our mind and on our computer.

That´s why we need Sins for Linux (well, and MacOS ^^).
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That´s why we need Sins for Linux


Then run WINE.

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Run Bootcamp.

Oh right, Bootcamp was a joke.
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you can´t play online with WINE ... LAN is also not possible atm ;/ .. or does someone find a solution for the WINE multiplayer games?
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I want to run this on my Commador 64, do you have a port to cartridge formatz?
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I'll see you guys your Commodore64's and raise you a Vic20.
Screw cartridges, I want it on audio cassette!
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Sins of a Solar Empire - The Board Game - New from Milton Bradley!
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"Your fleet arrives at the Vasari homeworld. Do you:

Attack defenses? Turn to pg. 841

Attack the enemy fleet? Turn to pg. 1320"

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"Your fleet arrives at the Vasari homeworld. Do you:Attack defenses? Turn to pg. 841Attack the enemy fleet? Turn to pg. 1320"


Winner

Nice one.
Reply #22 Top
As was mentioned, there was a thread on this previously, they don't have plans to do it. Its pretty expensive for a game like this if you don't plan on doing it from the beginning, unfortunately. (Almost everything in software is like that, the earlier on you decide to do something, the easier/cheaper it is.)
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If you look at my Reply #6 in the original thread on this topic, you'll see that Ironclad did mention the possibility of doing a Mac port. Sadly, the interview seems to be lost to the ages. So you'll just have to take my word (and the others who saw it and replied to my message) for it.

-HM
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If you think windows is the future and linux is the past (like C64)you´re just too lazy to change things (perhaps too old? xD )

"Noo let me be as i am ... i am ironic, that has to be enough ... those linux crackpots are pathetic do-gooders ... "

And it works with wine in a singelplayer game ... just multiplayer doesn´t work. Is it really so much work?

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No, Linux is just worthless. We used it in our computer science classes because:

1) It's free, which saves the University a lot of money.
2) They only need to run one or two programs.

I've determined long ago that 99% of Linux users do so simply so they can say they can. For basic operating system usage, Windows can do everything Linux can do, but better. The one complaint with Windows I have is the bloat, but if you're 'savvy' enough to use Linux, debloating Windows is trivial. Complaining about viruses and malware is absurd, because only computer retards get them. The last time I had a virus infection was in 2004 (admittedly, it was when I reformatted my computer, and had to plug the virgin, unprotected, unupdated Windows into the campus network to download all the updates I'd need to install them *OFFLINE*).