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Transgaming Technologies and Mac Developers

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the faster-games dept.

ZerocarboN writes "With such current Mac publishers as Aspyr and MacSoft typically spending months to bring games to the Mac, Mr. State said: "We imagine that they are re-evaluating their business models. Our technology does revolutionize how games are brought to the Mac, which we believe will result in a paradigm shift in the Mac game publishing landscape." He added that TransGaming has no plans to license Cider to other companies, but "we are always open to discussion.""

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  1. Transgaming is NOT the only solution! by mrchaotica · · Score: 5, Informative

    There's also Crossover Mac coming, from Codeweavers. Not only is this better because the user can buy it instead of waiting on game makers to port stuff, but it's also better because unlike Transgaming, Codeweavers contributes back to WINE.

    Of course, there's also vanilla DarWINE, but I haven't had any success with it on my Intel iMac yet.

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  2. Cider by kevin_conaway · · Score: 4, Informative

    Since the summary didn't explain what Cider is:

    technology that promises to convert Windows games to Mac OS X on Intel processors without the need for the long porting process traditionally required to bring titles to the platform. The company said that it has already forged agreements "with a number of the top tier video game publishers" to bring many of their titles to Intel-based Macs "in the next few months."
  3. Re:Not Good by vegasmacguy · · Score: 4, Informative
    Where the fuck do you Apple kooks get this crap! Apple's worldwide marketshare has been in a constant decline ever since Jobs took over.

    Where do you get yours? Are you reading financial reports from 6 years ago? Apple has been in steady growth cycle for the last several years. They have consistently reported that 50% of thier sales or more were not previous Mac owners.

    Apple Financial Results

    Here's some more links on the subject

    http://www.macnn.com/articles/05/12/02/safari.popu larity.growing/

    http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jun 2006/tc20060615_080175.htm

    http://www.macobserver.com/article/2006/07/19.18.s html

    Explaination of the Myth of Market Share (Google Cache)

  4. not the silver bullet by oliderid · · Score: 4, Informative

    Take a look at their support forum. And you will see the problem.
    It looks like transgaming needs to tweak its engine for every video games. When the game receives a patch, some of them stop to work and gamers have to wait another tweak from transgaming. It looks like a lot of users are frustrated.

    Transgaming may dramatically reduce the time you need to port a Windows based video game to Linux and MacOSX but it isn't such a clean way yet. They do not provide a 100% compatible DirectX 9.0 framework.