I know BYOND isn't planning on a MAC version but I'm curious if they'll be able to do a MAC version since .NET is now cross platform and BYOND is built with Visual Studios as mentioned in: http://www.byond.com/ forum/?post=180952&page=10#comment9810501
http://news.microsoft.com/2014/11/12/ microsoft-takes-net-open-source-and-cross-platform-adds-new- development-capabilities-with-visual-studio-2015-net-2015-an d-visual-studio-online/
Nov 12 2014, 8:31 am
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Audeuro
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Unfortunately, this doesn't really affect BYOND's situation. While the .NET framework got open-sourced and taken cross-platform, MFC (the C++ library that overlays the win32 api, that BYOND's UI is built with [last I checked]) has not changed.
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Correct. BYOND doesn't use the .NET framework for anything.
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Audeuro wrote:
Unfortunately, this doesn't really affect BYOND's situation. While the .NET framework got open-sourced and taken cross-platform, MFC (the C++ library that overlays the win32 api, that BYOND's UI is built with [last I checked]) has not changed. I've found an article that may prove useful with that issue, the author said it was relatively easy. http://www.irrlicht3d.org/pivot/entry.php?id=899 | |
Nadrew wrote:
Correct. BYOND doesn't use the .NET framework for anything. I wasn't sure on that but they do use Visual Studio. I found an article that could be an option for the MFC stuff, it's listed in my previous post. I don't mean to press this topic I'd just love to see a MAC version, if it were easy to do so, since that's what I use most of the time. If it's not worth the time or effort I'd rather the focus be on the web client. | |
Yeah, I think just focusing on the webclient is the way to go. Then cross-platform support wouldn't be an issue, you'd just need good proper HTML5 support on a browser on that platform.
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