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

April 17, 2008 8:29:51 PM from Stardock ForumsStardock Forums
Can you developers make Sins of a Solar Empire for Mac OSX? That would be cool! Are you planning that?
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Reply #1 April 17, 2008 8:51:06 PM
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can you make Sins for Nintendo 64??! pretty please!!!

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Reply #2 April 17, 2008 9:06:00 PM
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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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Reply #3 April 17, 2008 9:10:29 PM
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i want on my iPhone make it now please.
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Reply #4 April 17, 2008 9:38:15 PM
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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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Reply #5 April 17, 2008 9:58:18 PM
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I am not a troll...
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Reply #6 April 17, 2008 10:03:59 PM
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I am not a troll...


get losttt troll
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Reply #7 April 17, 2008 11:30:54 PM
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Nothing wrong with wanting Sins for other platforms, guys. Show some love.
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Reply #8 April 17, 2008 11:44:38 PM
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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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Reply #9 April 18, 2008 12:17:59 AM
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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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Reply #10 April 18, 2008 12:25:53 AM
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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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Reply #11 April 18, 2008 1:44:59 AM
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Mac Users don't count as people. So, using that logic there is no market there.
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Reply #12 April 21, 2008 4:57:25 AM
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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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Reply #13 April 21, 2008 5:29:18 AM
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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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Reply #14 April 21, 2008 7:37:18 AM
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That´s why we need Sins for Linux


Then run WINE.

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Reply #15 April 21, 2008 7:54:06 AM
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Run Bootcamp.

Oh right, Bootcamp was a joke.
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Reply #16 April 21, 2008 8:03:09 AM
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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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Reply #17 April 21, 2008 1:01:40 PM
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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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Reply #18 April 21, 2008 1:39:44 PM
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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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Reply #19 April 21, 2008 1:44:38 PM
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Sins of a Solar Empire - The Board Game - New from Milton Bradley!
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Reply #20 April 21, 2008 1:47:22 PM
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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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Reply #21 April 21, 2008 2:02:14 PM
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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.
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Reply #22 April 21, 2008 2:34:40 PM
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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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Reply #23 April 21, 2008 2:45:30 PM
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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.

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Reply #24 April 21, 2008 3:32:15 PM
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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? )

"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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Reply #25 April 21, 2008 4:36:07 PM
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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*).
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