game question

Anarchy99 · Aug 29, 2004, 03:10 AM

i hear lots of people say lots of games dont get ported to osx because there directx and not open gl well my question is what are the chances of directx being ported to mac so its easier for games to get ported

Ninja_Turtle · Aug 29, 2004, 03:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Anarchy99

i hear lots of people say lots of games dont get ported to osx because there directx and not open gl well my question is what are the chances of directx being ported to mac so its easier for games to get ported

microsoft wont release the source code to apple

applekid · Aug 29, 2004, 08:51 AM

For the love of everything good on Earth, Anarchy99, use punctuation! Reading what you type is such a pain in the ass to read!

Anyways, since I'm tired of repeating myself about the whole DirectX stuff, I chose a few threads (out of many) that have some good explanations:

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthre...hlight=DirectX
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthre...hlight=DirectX
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=71378 (check the latter pages)

And no, DirectX does not make it impossible to port games to the Mac.

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Aug 29, 2004, 08:51 AM	#3
applekid macrumors 68020 Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: On this chair	For the love of everything good on Earth, Anarchy99, use punctuation! Reading what you type is such a pain in the ass to read! Anyways, since I'm tired of repeating myself about the whole DirectX stuff, I chose a few threads (out of many) that have some good explanations: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthre...hlight=DirectX http://forums.macrumors.com/showthre...hlight=DirectX http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=71378 (check the latter pages) And no, DirectX does not make it impossible to port games to the Mac.