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America’s Army on Mac: this is end my friend, the end...

By linathael. Original by Lionel - 26/04/2006 10:19:44 CEST - Category: Software
Report from JF.
I know that you are not often posting news related to Mac games, but we have learned that one of the most popular games on our platform, America’s Army, often compare for its quality to "Ghost Recon", will be discontinued (both Mac and Linux version). The US Army had already since a long time discontinued Mac and Linux support, and all versions released for the Mac recently were made by a courageous and volunteer developer Ryan Gordon. The current version 2.5 might be updated to 2.6 if he ever finds time to finish it up.
The US Army decision has nothing to do with the release of Boot Camp since it was anterior to the recent Apple announcement. The decision was the consequence of GameSpy network to discontinue Mac support on their servers. Despite the fact that Ryan, decided to support the Mac version and modified it in order to allow mac users to connect to GameSpy servers, future “middlewares” that will be added in the game code force him to stop supporting the Mac version.
By releasing Boot Camp and moving to the Intel processor, Apple has probably saved Mac gamers since online games for Mac were already dying since GameSpy decisions to close servers, or the introduction of technologies such as Havok, have made PC games impossible to be ported to the Mac.
For additional information:http://forum.americasarmy.com/viewtopic.php?t=213321
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