"eniko why won't your studio support mac anymore"
well, this might have something to do with it: hackaday.com/2024/11/01/apple-…
"Now it would seem that to distribute MacOS software you need to have an Apple Developer Program membership, costing $99/year."
if anything apple should be paying *me* $99 a year to put up with their bullshit. i'm not locking myself into development-as-a-service where every year i have to dish out $99 to even be allowed to make programs for mac and then every 4 years also have to buy an entirely new overpriced piece of trash laptop because apple arbitrarily decided the latest version of macos won't run on older macbooks
Apple Forces The Signing Of Applications In MacOS Sequoia 15.1
Many MacOS users are probably used by now to the annoyance that comes with unsigned applications, as they require a few extra steps to launch them. This feature is called Gatekeeper and checks for …Hackaday
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in reply to Eniko Fox • • •most mac computers can also run linux, so they can play the games that way too.
maybe it's possible to distribute a build of wine alongside the game as a mac version?
you wouldn't be able to test if this works on all mac os versions though, apple is a mess
Eniko Fox
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in reply to Eniko Fox • • •You are right. My macbookpro late 2018 is less efficient and less updated than my Linux pc i7 from 2012.
Welcome to the #apple #corporate #greed making millions in #ewaste despite their false #green pledges.
Jari Komppa 🇫🇮
in reply to Eniko Fox • • •It's been like this for years. You pay apple for the opportunity to keep updating your program or they will delist it, and to be able to update you need to keep buying new hardware from them all the time.
I gave up a couple decades ago.
mmalc
in reply to Eniko Fox • • •"Now it would seem that to distribute MacOS software you need to have an Apple Developer Program membership, costing $99/year."
This turns out not to be the case.
idownloadblog.com/2024/08/07/a…
macOS Sequoia removes the Control-click method to bypass Gatekeeper; don’t worry, you can still install unsigned Mac apps
Christian Zibreg (iDownloadBlog.com)Rog Dolos 🏳️⚧️
in reply to Eniko Fox • • •This is inherently not developer-friendly. Double-dipping, I guess they feel any interaction with their products must be monetized on both ends.
The only good answer to this, is to disengage.
bhaugland
in reply to Eniko Fox • • •Alex Chaffee
in reply to Eniko Fox • • •so we can't... write source code, compile and link it into executable binary files, and run those anymore? is that the bottom line? is MacOS (and all its libraries) an untenable API now? we need to pay a subscription to use our own universal Von Neumann machine now?
[UPDATE: actually no, not yet, see below]
like a paper notebook whose pages you have to pay rent to write on?
to scribble your own poems, with your own ink, to share with your own friends?
guess I'm never buying a Mac again
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Jonathan Lamothe
in reply to Eniko Fox • •@Eniko | Kitsune Tails out now! How is this not an antitrust issue for them?
What the actual fuck!?
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in reply to Eniko Fox • • •JP
in reply to Eniko Fox • • •and if you're not that, they seem to be telling everyone else, then fuuuck youuu! pay us money anyways! we'll break your shit because we feel like it!
Eniko Fox
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in reply to Eniko Fox • • •@jplebreton I think Apple inherently both don’t understand gaming and don’t care. They make some big splash announcement with some big game every few years (often years after it would matter). That’s it.
I keep hearing the same specific argument from game developers time after time again, it’s not worth it.
At it’s core it’s not about the hardware (separate topic), or the $99 dev program, or the compatibility issues, or lack of sensible APIs (they don’t even put actual Vulkan on there), or any of the other reasons.
It’s not worth it. The investment has terrible ROI. And I say this as an Apple user. I play my games elsewhere (but never ever Windows, the worst of the worst).
Indie devs, don’t bother with Apple unless it’s a passion project for you. Not even MiHoYo (who has iPadOS and iOS versions!) releases on Mac. Should tell you everything.
So, Kitsune Tails for SNES, when?
Perroboc
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in reply to Eniko Fox • • •macOS Sequoia removes the Control-click method to bypass Gatekeeper; don’t worry, you can still install unsigned Mac apps
Christian Zibreg (iDownloadBlog.com)Andreas
in reply to Eniko Fox • • •Three plus or minus five
in reply to Eniko Fox • • •I was actually thinking of asking my boss for a Mac again. Reading this, forget it. It’s no longer a real platform.
Eric
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in reply to Andrew • • •@cinebox
disabling gatekeeper entirely is probably not ideal tho
@eniko
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