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[Funky Papa]

Kinda 'eh' news but more fuel to the next gen fire I guess.

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=20146

 

[Teddman]

I was surprised to hear that several developers use Macs for the current gen too. Swingin' Ape for one...

 

[luxsol]

Does this mean that Xenon*cough*PC*cough* games have a chance of being released for Macs faster (more frequently)? =P

 

[element]

Does this mean that Xenon*cough*PC*cough* games have a chance of being released for Macs faster (more frequently)? =P

no.

Really aren't using the 'Mac' platform. They are using the hardware (PPC), and it just happens that Apple is the largest distrubutor of hardware that uses PPC CPUs.

 

[KeithFranklin]

People dont realize that MS has had Windows running on PowerPC chipset for years. They used to sell Windows NT for PowerPC and others. This is because NT (Windows 2000, Windows XP, XBOX) kernel runs on top of a Hardware Abstract Layer.

 

[-SRV-]

Doesn't OS X run on top of Unix on macs?

 

[sc0la]

I was wondering the other day if they could somehow translate the XNA (or whats it called) to a mac environment for easier porting.

Would be nice.

 

[Blimblim]

I was wondering the other day if they could somehow translate the XNA (or whats it called) to a mac environment for easier porting.

Would be nice.

Of course they could, but I really doubt it would be worth the effort considering the size of the market.

 

[Nerevar]

Doesn't OS X run on top of Unix on macs?

OS X is based off of FreeBSD Unix, a publically available Unix distro. So yeah, I guess you could say that.

 

[Raddock]

The Xbox 2 dev kits do not run OSX. Only the development software.

 

[retardboy]

MS should release Longhorn for PPC when it comes out. Haha, that'd be funny if people were using a Mac with Windows.

 

[Baconäger]

So programs like Maya run on a Mac too?

Shocking.

 

[vitaflo]

MS should release Longhorn for PPC when it comes out. Haha, that'd be funny if people were using a Mac with Windows.

I do already on mine. It's called Virtual PC, made by MS.

 

[gofreak]

Heh, I remember the "surprise" when mac hardware was being shipped in for early GC development..

I'm guessing it'll probably be the same scenario for Revolution too.

 

[retardboy]

I do already on mine. It's called Virtual PC, made by MS.

Obviously I mean natively so you don't have to have Mac OS. (Wouldn't that be funny? You having a Mac without OSX and with Windows? I think so!) And even then, Virtual PC doesn't run Longhorn. I don't care about XP I'm talking next gen.