12 Aug 14, 10:18AM
A history to those wondering:
* Apple stopped making Power PC processor computers by August 7, 2006.
* Apple's OSX stopped supporting the Power PC on August 28, 2009 (Snow Leopard).
* Apple's OSX stopped supporting Power PC based software on July 20 2011 (Lion).
* Apple completely dropped software/hardware support for Power PC on August 7, 2013.
You can surely understand that we're unlikely to support something that even the manufacturer no longer does. For us to provide you with AssaultCube that works for an old version of Mac OSX, I believe our Mac developer needs to actually be able to have that OS at his fingertips, so that he can attempt to compile AssaultCube for that platform (and he doesn't).
At best, he can do v10.4 (Tiger). As such, that (or better) is what we officially support, see here: http://assault.cubers.net/docs/getstarted.html#minspecs
Additionally, note that the libraries that AssaultCube uses, are likely to over time not support Power PC - which limits our potential to support you even more.
TL;DR?
1) Don't buy a Mac if you want something that lasts forever. Buy a PC so you can upgrade single pieces of hardware from time-to-time. Also, you would be able to change from Windows to Linux and run an up to date system without a problem. Translation: If you really wanted to, that PC from 1995 won't be made fully redundant if it were a PC.
2) If you're really, really lucky and quite kind, there is a very unlikely possibility that our OSX developer may be able to help you make AssaultCube work on a PPC, send him a PM: http://forum.cubers.net/user-300.html
* Apple stopped making Power PC processor computers by August 7, 2006.
* Apple's OSX stopped supporting the Power PC on August 28, 2009 (Snow Leopard).
* Apple's OSX stopped supporting Power PC based software on July 20 2011 (Lion).
* Apple completely dropped software/hardware support for Power PC on August 7, 2013.
You can surely understand that we're unlikely to support something that even the manufacturer no longer does. For us to provide you with AssaultCube that works for an old version of Mac OSX, I believe our Mac developer needs to actually be able to have that OS at his fingertips, so that he can attempt to compile AssaultCube for that platform (and he doesn't).
At best, he can do v10.4 (Tiger). As such, that (or better) is what we officially support, see here: http://assault.cubers.net/docs/getstarted.html#minspecs
Additionally, note that the libraries that AssaultCube uses, are likely to over time not support Power PC - which limits our potential to support you even more.
TL;DR?
1) Don't buy a Mac if you want something that lasts forever. Buy a PC so you can upgrade single pieces of hardware from time-to-time. Also, you would be able to change from Windows to Linux and run an up to date system without a problem. Translation: If you really wanted to, that PC from 1995 won't be made fully redundant if it were a PC.
2) If you're really, really lucky and quite kind, there is a very unlikely possibility that our OSX developer may be able to help you make AssaultCube work on a PPC, send him a PM: http://forum.cubers.net/user-300.html