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Sevarus James
Minmatar
Meridian Dynamics
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Posted - 2006.08.03 20:46:00 -
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Looks like some interesting stuff coming. Go to the Transgaming website and prominently linked on the brand new home page there is some VERY interesting news regarding this thing called "CIDER". MAC users should DEFINITELY be interested in this:
Cedega/CIDER
In the faq portion, it indicates that transgaming has signed several deals with top developers to support this. After the stuff at E3, I can't help but wonder if CCP is in on this.
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Sevarus James
Minmatar
Meridian Dynamics
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Posted - 2006.10.11 08:12:00 -
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The devs have already mentioned they are in talks with transgaming and that there isn't an official relationship.....YET. (keyword there.)
An official relationship, I'm betting, would include cider. It'd be nice to get an update on this from kieron, oveur or somebody, but they (ccp) are notoriously tight lipped about this sort of thing...and I don't really blame them as a deal not done....ain't a deal at all.
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Sevarus James
Minmatar
Meridian Dynamics
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Posted - 2006.10.16 22:26:00 -
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 Originally by: Scragg
Hey if they ever wrote a Mac OS client would it have a pastel color scheme with a flower and peace sign skin?
OK.. I'm sorry... .bad Scragg... bad!
LMAO......maybe 10 years ago. Last time I looked the MAC looked sexy and 22nd century and not in a pastel sorta' way. 
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Sevarus James
Minmatar
Meridian Dynamics
FREGE Alliance
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Posted - 2007.03.05 08:50:00 -
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Well at least Cider isn't vaporware any longer:
Title announced.
As a linux user and eve-tech forum user, I too get irritated with the stereotype that the mac crowd are illiterate. After 18 years in the systems biz, the biggest bunch clueless wonders have ALWAYS been the windows user crowd. (when the corresponding numbers are higher, the percentage of droolers is also higher.)
I think that any accusation of "stupidity" is rediculous over all though because there are good AND bad users on every platform....yes, even linux.
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Sevarus James
Minmatar
Meridian Dynamics
FREGE Alliance
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Posted - 2007.03.06 04:18:00 -
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Originally by: El***ER
a first cider port nice
the game is rated silver to gold under wine (no test results under crossover but I guess it would run there as well)
only time will tell if it's better to compile a game with cider or use the seperate api emulation (porting a single version vs. integration it into build and development/test cycles)
atm I would say it's a job for marketing (buy one game/port at a time vs. buying/testing crossover for mac)
It should be interesting to see how this plays out. I can see the attraction from the developer of a game for the 'wider' audience plus cache of 'mac native' on the box with the cider implementation.
For standalone games with no major "upgrade" or changes after release, cider would probably be a good way to go, but in the MMO side of things where the client is continually 'futzed' with the crossover/wine way might be better. At least the choices are there now. 
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