ORIGINAL: VictoryRoll-91
Ok heres the deal. I've heard a lot of people talking about how they want a good RC flight sim for mac. I have a Mac, and REALLY want a sim. So...I'm protesting. This thread is kind of a petition, which I will later be sending to Apple, and most of the major flight sim companies. Maybe I can get someone to make a Mac compatible one. All you have to do is post that you are for it or against it, and why you want one made, and maybe with some help, we can make this happen. Thanks A lot,
Austin
You've entered my territory:-)
Apple has nothing to do with it, they make computers... not software. Who you would need to convince is a developer, and you won't convince them. There are few games on MAC because there are few MAC users. Today even a "cheap" computer game cost around $10 million to produce. If they don't think they can make more than that on the game, they won't make the game. You are asking for a game with an extremely limited audience. MAC users who also fly RC planes. You won't find anyone who will be willing to do that. The reason the Windows sims are so expensive is that the audience is limited to RC Airplane hobbiests, nobody else will be interested in the software. They only make it for Windows because they can make a profit selling the software for $200. With the MAC audience then being only about 1/5 of the PC audience, they would need to charge about $1000 for MAC RC flight sim software to make their money back. You won't pay that, so they won't make it.
There are emulators out there, you should probably try to find one that will run some Windows RC flight sim software. You may find that your choices are limited by what will work with the emulator. If you are not doing intense desktop publishing, make your next computer a Windows computer. They don't make a lot of software for MACs, especially games. If you want to play any type of game you really want to have a Windows computer.