Elite Dangerous Mac

magicao

M
Hello

Ive just downloaded Elite Dangerous Standard Beta. It is only a windows version. The website says the mac version will be released 3 months after the windows version release. It will be a native app or a wine/crossover based solution.

Anyway, if the developers need any beta testing the mac version maybe i can help.

thanks


Sorry if it is a duplicated thread, i searched the forum with "mac" and "osx" keywords, but i cannot find any post.
 

technome

technome
There's a fair few of us who've jumped to bootcamp to test the alpha and beta while we wait for a Mac client.

Once it's ready, it'll most likely be announced in the newsletter.
 

Okona

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wine

magicao said:
Ive just downloaded Elite Dangerous Standard Beta. It is only a windows version. The website says the mac version will be released 3 months after the windows version release. It will be a native app or a wine/crossover based solution.

Anyway, if the developers need any beta testing the mac version maybe i can help.
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I'd also be available for mac beta testing!

I'd also say that it will be a native port, Frontier has experience porting their games (and therefore the used Cobra 3D engine) to other platforms - game consoles in that case - which do not support wine/crossover.

Also a native port is the far cleaner solution - which would sound more like what Frontier would do and what they appear to be doing right now with that disciplined development process.

Finally I already tried wine and was not successful. )-:

However from what I know about the mechanics behind wine, it would not be the worst solution performance wise, especially when using winelib (if that is still available). I'd still prefer it to running under Bootcamp.
 

Slopey

Volunteer Moderator
Slopey
See the news in the latest newsletters about the Mac client development.

No need to necro an old thread - if you have access to the beta versions, you should be able to beta test the Mac version.
 
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