Stranded!!

[pakse]

I am in a strange situation. I am stranded in Västerås (West of Stockholm) in my gf's appartment. The horrible thing is that I can use my gf's computer, her internet and everything PLUS install whatever I want as long as I remove it later.

I guess you ask why I am whining? Here is the reason: She has an iMac! So far I have managed to install the game after much hazzle but I cant patch it :/. So you can say that I can almost reach it which is even worse. I almost wish that I was sitting in an internet desert or something. Instead I am roaming the internet (Our homepage mainly).

I used the program crossover if you wonder when installing AO.

Is it even legal to create computers which can't install AO by default? If not then someone has to do something about that imo. I will be back in my own appartment on sunday night so on monday I will be able to play again and yes I will celebrate. I guess it is good with a break sometimes...........

So when you play please think about me in my despair!

[Kehaan]

Hey.

I am useing a iMac 27" i7 with 8gb ram... And AO runs fine on it Even with more accounts on the same time.

You just need to do some tricks to get AO to work on it, with Crossover Games... Want help?

EDIT: Its not Macs fault it cant run AO by default. Its Funcom who are too lazy to make a Mac version

Apple > everything else.

From Kehaan

[pakse]

I have read through the forum a bit and yeah there are ways around it. But wont have much time to play anyway now it seems.

I still prefer to blame Apple over FC even though I guess your statement is better.

Today I had the chance to have a look around in this beautiful city and I must say I am in love with it already!

Thnx for offering your help tho. Very appreciated I can tell you !

[swordster]

Well, I don't hide my feelings bout Apple... Fruits belong in the fridge, not on your desktop!

Keh, why make a mac version when mac are like 0,5% of the gaming market?

My advise Filiph, Buy her a real computer instead!

[Sonco]

Agree with de Swordsalizer!

[pakse]

Yeah I would like to but she likes her iMac... "Best computer ever" "I love it" and so on comes from her mouth...

[Kehaan]

Yeah I would like to but she likes her iMac... "Best computer ever" "I love it" and so on comes from her mouth...

What a perfect gf you have

*hides*

From Kehaan

[Mawerick]

Mac's aren't computers. they're glorified paperweights.
They're also gimp.

[Jasper2002]

Mac's aren't computers. they're glorified paperweights.
They're also gimp.

Well said,

Though I do need a Mac for developing iPhone apps, but I am thinking of a Mac Mini dualing on my main display as I don't need the fanboi stuff just the XCode development enviroment.

[Kehaan]

Looks like most of you, have not seen the "light" side yet

Or hmm, where are your iPhones?

btw Jasp, do you know any good guides for xcode? And iPhone development? And have you made any nice apps?

[Flameforge]

I'm not a Mac devotee but I do enjoy having my Macbook around, mostly just to have extra tools available--things like iLife, unix tools, the formatter, etc.

I did dabble in some iPhone game coding too ... although didn't get too far...

[Jasper2002]

Well since I haven't got a Mac yet I can't do any real coding, but my plan is ultimately to write the game/app code in Unity, port to MonoTouch on a Mac, and then publish the Xib file from there, but to publish to the iStore you need a Mac and iphone developer account which only runs on Intel based Macs, although the developer license is included in MonoTouch, it is $399 and only runs on Macs.

Since I code in C# already and Unity provides all the 3d tools needed this seems to be the best way to approach it, while carefully avoiding C# constucts that are not compatible with the version of .Net used by Monotouch.

For guides I find Apress books to be really good tutorial guides and one such iPhone guide can be found here

Another possibility is to write the code in Microsoft's XNA studio (which is free) and port it to Monotouch from there. The best thing with this is that you can develop for XBox and iphone using similar libraries for the base code, and it opens up your market place.

Another option once you have your iphone application is to use Appcelerator to port the app from the iphone to android and palm platforms, so theoretically you can develop on a Windows machine and have the app running on Windows, Xbox, iPhone, Android and Palm hardwware with a little effort, whether it is a 2d or 3d game, app or utility.

I reckon I would need around £1000 to £1200 to get started but finding that atm is a little tough. Will have to see how things go

I like the look of that Flame, kinda retro but funky

[Flameforge]

They are just dev graphics It was an X-com style turn-based game with line-of-sight etc.

Seems you've investigated things quite a lot, Jasp. I dived into Objective-C a couple of years ago now and there weren't really any options for porting. I think you've really got to keep your options open especially with Android making waves. If I got back into it I would love to do it in C# -- I'll have to look in to it...

Kehaan, depends on what you want to code but for gaming I chose Cocos2D and this was an awesome beginner tute: http://monoclestudios.com/cocos2d_whitepaper.html

[Jasper2002]

By the way, here is a link to getting the Mac development kit to work on older G3/G4 and G5's.

This way you can get into development for the iPhone for as little as a couple of hundred pounds if you get the cheapest kit and go straight to developing Xcode rather than C#.

I would recommend getting a G4 Laptop with at least 1gb ram and 120gb hdd running OSX 10.5 which go for around £250 on Ebay in the UK.

I think you can download the SDK from Apple for free, but need to pay the $99 to sell your applications when they are uber enough for the iStore, so you can, with reasonable interest and a decent tutorial or two start coding within a few hours of getting your Mac.

[Kehaan]

Looks like something i will look into, when my imac return from repair...