OSX barbarians at the gates of HOMM

[Hambone]

Hail satiated PC gamers! Hambone here from Macland to report the news from on high. Yesterday, <a href="/http://freeverse.com/">Freeverse</a> Vice President Colin Smith contacted <a href="/hommv.utopos.net">HOMMV for OSX!</a> with the good word that a feature-complete build of HOMMV is now running under OSX and has entered the first round of testing! This follows just three weeks after Freeverse posted a little <a href="/http://dev.freeverse.com/monkeyblog/arc ... ml">teaser shot</a> of HOMMV purportedly running on OSX.



While this puts the port ahead of schedule, many details remainl unknown: will the Map Editor be ported? Will the game run on PPC and Intel Mac hardware? Will I get to ignore annoying Uncle Schmekie over Christmas by playing HOMMV instead? Hopefully the testing will go well and all will be revealed within the next few weeks.

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[Angelspit]

And will the expansion(s) be ported as well? That was an important omission in Heroes IV.

[MistWeaver]

What "barbarians" has to do with it ? Im missing something ?

[Angelspit]

"bar‧bar‧i‧an  /bɑrˈbɛəriən/
a person in a savage, primitive state; uncivilized person."

Describes a Mac user quite well.

[Qurqirish Dragon]

Most importantly: Will maps designed under OSX or on the PC be playable on the other platform?

[val-gaav]

Hmm... If Mac users are barbarians for you , then I wonder how would you describe people using GNU/Linux or BSD systems ???



just curious ...
Edited on Thu, Nov 02 2006, 04:13 by val-gaav

[Hambone]

You illiterate clods. "Barbarians at the gates" is an old cliche meaning broadly that something big is about to happen, or more narrowly that a threat is about to be faced. What I meant was that Mac users are about to be "released" into the world of HOMMV as the port is nearly completed!