Direct X port ?

[ericus666]

Hi to all,


I have this game that is built for PC (think of it as an FPS) and it uses a lot of DirectX commands.... the obvious questions...


1) what can I do to run it on OS X ?

2) Does it worth to think about OS9 ?

3) I am a noob in game programming... can soembody tell me that it's not hard to convert from PC to Mac ? Is there any dream app that just "does" the job for you ? :D


Thanks in advance.

[Malarkey]

Hi to all,


I have this game that is built for PC (think of it as an FPS) and it uses a lot of DirectX commands.... the obvious questions...


1) what can I do to run it on OS X ?

2) Does it worth to think about OS9 ?

3) I am a noob in game programming... can soembody tell me that it's not hard to convert from PC to Mac ? Is there any dream app that just "does" the job for you ? :D


Thanks in advance.

1) Find someone willing to spend a lot of time and resources porting it.

2) No.

3) No, and no. :)

[Leisure Suit Lurie]

There is this, but it costs:

MacDX (http://www.coderus.com/)

[Duane]

There is this, but it costs:

MacDX (http://www.coderus.com/)

plus, it slows it WAY down...

[BinarySpike]

I have this game that is built for PC (think of it as an FPS) and it uses a lot of DirectX commands.... the obvious questions...


3) I am a noob in game programming...

So to my understanding you want a game to be ported to mac... not created by you...


My thought is it's a game you really like and can't play because you don't have a windows anymore or your windows buddy dug to china.


Also, because this is your first post I would suggest posting because this thread will become junk if you don't... ;)

Next off...
If you create the game yourself...
I am a noob in game programming...

So I bet somebody could port it if it was yours...


I would be willing to port it if ppl didn't mind my radical views on Jaguar support :-P
(and I wasn't converting a memory managing system to a container at this moment)

[unknown]

Out of intrest what help is telling this to us?
I am a noob in game programming..

[ericus666]

Out of intrest what help is telling this to us?


Not getting replies like yours ? :lol:

[Carlos Camacho]

Ericuss, can you give us a link to your game, so we can see the screenshots or try it out on a PC?

[w_reade]

I think WINE implements an awful lot of DirectX in OpenGL, so quite a lot of the required knowledge is out there and freely available... but I suspect ripping the code out of WINE and turning it into something like MacDX would be, uh, non-trivial :-).

[socksy]

There's a mac version of wine known as Darwine, which lets Direct X developers recompile their code for Mac OS X, if it works for wine in linux that is.

[Ingemar]

So to my understanding you want a game to be ported to mac... not created by you...

My thought is it's a game you really like and can't play because you don't have a windows anymore or your windows buddy dug to china.
What if he wants it ported to the Mac simply because he likes the Mac? That's reason enough for me. I play games on the Mac but that's not because I can't get a PC.