 | | | Subject: Re: Thoughts on the Gabe Newell 's Mac comments. | Subject: Re: Thoughts on the Gabe Newell 's Mac comments. 2007-10-07 - By Tobias Ford
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I don't want back porting of features. It's kind of maybe a shame
that sometimes users will need to buy an update to the os to get
newer features. But I don't mind that so much. Back porting costs
more for QA, so I don't personally mind bumping to the next version.
I do want current and often updates in between point os updates,
though.
On Oct 6, 2007, at 1:14 PM, Andy O'Meara wrote:
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>> A "game API" should be versioned independently of the OS, like
>> Quicktime. So if Apple adds rectangular texture support, that
>> needs to be back-ported at least as far as 10.3.9, but maybe even
>> 10.2, so we can tell users to "just run software update" to play
>> our games. Or say Apple adds 8 bit back buffer/triple buffering/
>> page flipping to windows. That needs to be back-ported so that
>> devs can actually use it, or else we still have to maintain
>> multiple code paths, with the end result being that improvements
>> don't get adopted. Existing policy just sends a big FU to the
>> community, in the name of making money on new OS releases.
>>
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> We struggle with the same issues since our customers are generally
> not hard-core gamers or power users so they don't tend to have the
> latest hardware or OS (yet our technology is OpenGL intensive). In
> short, we can't depend on any OpenGL extensions or OS features that
> haven't been shipped by Apple for 4+ years or else there's just too
> many of our users who are left out in the cold. We'd love to adopt
> new technologies, but we also want to stay in business too. We
> don't intend to kill 10.3 support for at least a couple more years
> from now...
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> andy
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