Telltale Games

01/18/2006, 11:34 pm

I'm just wondering, but seeing the new line-up of Intel based Macs and the fact that some time in the near future all Macs will be Intel based, does this make porting games easier due to a (more) similar architecture?

*Kevin* · 01/19/2006, 05:29 pm

Macs using Intel will make it a bit easier to port software between them. The biggest win is that PowerPC and Intel have different "endian". Which sort of means that on a PowerPC you would write "Telltale", and on an Intel you need to write "elatlleT". All that reversing direction stuff could cause problems and slow things down. So that's a win. But I wouldn't expect DirectX on a Mac anytime soon, and I wouldn't expect a widely supported OpenGL under Windows anytime soon, so in most ways porting is still a big job.

Overall Mac on Intel is a very good thing, and hopefully we'll see some Telltale Games for Mac soon!

01/25/2006, 07:11 pm

At the very least you should be able to dual boot with Vista later this year. Its not a great solution, but its better.

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01/18/2006, 11:34 pm	#1
SMNMX Guest Posts: n/a	I'm just wondering, but seeing the new line-up of Intel based Macs and the fact that some time in the near future all Macs will be Intel based, does this make porting games easier due to a (more) similar architecture?

01/19/2006, 05:29 pm	#2
Kevin These fingers are tasty! Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 219	Macs using Intel will make it a bit easier to port software between them. The biggest win is that PowerPC and Intel have different "endian". Which sort of means that on a PowerPC you would write "Telltale", and on an Intel you need to write "elatlleT". All that reversing direction stuff could cause problems and slow things down. So that's a win. But I wouldn't expect DirectX on a Mac anytime soon, and I wouldn't expect a widely supported OpenGL under Windows anytime soon, so in most ways porting is still a big job. Overall Mac on Intel is a very good thing, and hopefully we'll see some Telltale Games for Mac soon!

01/25/2006, 07:11 pm	#3
Vark Guest Posts: n/a	At the very least you should be able to dual boot with Vista later this year. Its not a great solution, but its better.