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1. paulry+(OP)[view] [source] 2024-10-10 22:49:57
It is shocking the effort required to have a good gaming experience on Apple computers (excluding iOS). They always struck me as agnostic to games, yet in recent years it appears to border on open hostility.
replies(3): >>fl0id+K1 >>kalleb+iA >>snarfy+CP1
2. fl0id+K1[view] [source] 2024-10-10 23:07:26
>>paulry+(OP)
They made gameportingkit, which got made into whisky app. So not totally hostile
3. kalleb+iA[view] [source] 2024-10-11 06:00:00
>>paulry+(OP)
Apple has always been anti-gaming. It's been in the companies DNA since the first Mac was derided as a "toy" for having a graphical user interface, and they overcompensated trying to make it a business machine with no games.

About once a decade someone inside of Apple who is really passionate about games pushes some project through - you had GameSprockets in the 90's, you had someone convincing Valve to port Half-Life, you have GamePortingKit now, but it's just not in the companies culture to give game developers the long-term support they need.

4. snarfy+CP1[view] [source] 2024-10-11 17:24:33
>>paulry+(OP)
It was Jobs specifically that was anti-gaming. I'm not sure where Cook stands.
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