Author Topic: AI War 3.712 OSX Installer -- First-Ever Public Mac Version Of AI War!  (Read 2110 times)

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This is an exciting post to get to make.  At long last, we now have an OSX version of AI War.  You can grab it here.  That installer installs an OSX version of AI War that is identical to the Windows version 3.712 that we just released tonight, including all the new and remastered music.

The OSX version should be able to handle automatic updates exactly in the same fashion that the windows version does, but honestly we haven't had an opportunity to do thorough testing on the OSX version of the updater or the game itself on OSX. What I've seen so far looked flawless (and at a mighty fine framerate, too, on my MacBook Pro), but we haven't yet had our normal army of player testers on the OSX side, obviously.

So with the caveat that there may be some Mac-specific bugs at this stage (though hopefully not), I hope you'll enjoy the new version if you're a Mac enthusiast.  Worst case, we'll be unable to patch the existing install and will have to issue a whole new installer package; worse things have happened, and in the meantime we can definitely use the assistance of the Mac crowd in making sure this thing works well over there.



I delayed this long on releasing the Mac version because I didn't want the first impression of anyone on that platform to be of AI War in an unpolished, buggy state of the earlier betas.  Things are much further along now, but bear in mind that this is still very much a beta product, and not completely finished.  We really appreciate the bug-hunting, suggestions, and general feedback that people offer in these pre-release phases; it makes the final product so much better.

All right, all right, enough: enjoy!

PS -- The license keys for AI War are platform-agnostic.  So if you bought the "windows" version of AI War, you really bought it for both platforms.  Network play, etc, should work between both platforms, as well.  All the same deal as what we did with the Mac version of Tidalis, in other words.
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Re: AI War 3.712 OSX Installer -- First-Ever Public Mac Version Of AI War!
« Reply #1 on: October 14, 2010, 02:03:44 am »
OK Very cool :)

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Re: AI War 3.712 OSX Installer -- First-Ever Public Mac Version Of AI War!
« Reply #2 on: October 14, 2010, 02:23:51 am »
Congratulations! That is really awesome...

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Re: AI War 3.712 OSX Installer -- First-Ever Public Mac Version Of AI War!
« Reply #3 on: October 14, 2010, 06:44:09 am »
booya!

I am leaving for a trip in 30min and will be carrying my macbook with me! Perfect timing!

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Re: AI War 3.712 OSX Installer -- First-Ever Public Mac Version Of AI War!
« Reply #4 on: October 14, 2010, 10:25:16 am »
:)
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Re: AI War 3.712 OSX Installer -- First-Ever Public Mac Version Of AI War!
« Reply #5 on: October 14, 2010, 01:47:05 pm »
That screenshot is pretty sexy.
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Re: AI War 3.712 OSX Installer -- First-Ever Public Mac Version Of AI War!
« Reply #6 on: October 15, 2010, 02:15:26 am »
Bought AI War for my friend who uses a Mac recently.  I'm sure he'll appreciate being able to play it in native.

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Re: AI War 3.712 OSX Installer -- First-Ever Public Mac Version Of AI War!
« Reply #7 on: October 15, 2010, 02:16:04 am »
Thanks for your support!  And yeah, definitely better to be native in any OS, for sure.
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Re: AI War 3.712 OSX Installer -- First-Ever Public Mac Version Of AI War!
« Reply #8 on: February 22, 2011, 11:36:15 pm »
Just read the review on http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-02-14-ai-war-fleet-command-review and I will be buying this on Steam when I get home. Well done on producing a OSX version and I hope you get great support from your Mac fans.

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Re: AI War 3.712 OSX Installer -- First-Ever Public Mac Version Of AI War!
« Reply #9 on: February 22, 2011, 11:56:05 pm »
Will the Steam version be "Steam Play"?

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Re: AI War 3.712 OSX Installer -- First-Ever Public Mac Version Of AI War!
« Reply #10 on: February 22, 2011, 11:59:01 pm »
LostInBKK, thanks for the kind words, and hope you enjoy the game!

Echo35 -- Given that this topic is incredibly old and the OSX version came out on Steam last October, yes, Steam Play is already supported. ;)
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Re: AI War 3.712 OSX Installer -- First-Ever Public Mac Version Of AI War!
« Reply #11 on: February 23, 2011, 11:28:16 am »
LostInBKK, thanks for the kind words, and hope you enjoy the game!

Echo35 -- Given that this topic is incredibly old and the OSX version came out on Steam last October, yes, Steam Play is already supported. ;)

I figured it was bumped when it said "Version 3.712" but I wasn't sure :P

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Re: AI War 3.712 OSX Installer -- First-Ever Public Mac Version Of AI War!
« Reply #12 on: February 23, 2011, 11:35:42 am »
Heh, no worries.  :P
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