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[Cougar]

Homy, on 24 November 2020 - 11:46 AM, said:

Why is his name Doug McKenzie if he's Brad Oliver?

Private joke, I guess? Or an attempt at anonymity. He changed it a while ago.

[jeannot]

ozzy, on 23 November 2020 - 12:33 PM, said:

Brad Oliver posted on Twitter this morning mentioning that by far the biggest impediment to patching games for ARM was all the middle-ware and libraries. Physics libraries, sound libraries, etc.

His tweets are now protected (they were accessible two days ago), but Brad does seem to be investigating the issue of porting intel games to ARM. At least that's something. Maybe we'll get some games ported after all.

[dr.zeissler]

I like to address this to apple:
Take 10Mio bucks and sent them to the devs/portres in order to get the 64bit x86 to arm64 native and because of the 64bit apocalypse, port the 32bit x86 aaa-titles as well. I would be a huhge benefit to get arm64 even on titles that did not made it to x64 in the first place.

That would BOOOST the M1 platform!!!

[jeannot]

Yeah. Apple has all the cards in hands to improve gaming on their platforms. They're the only ones that master the whole stack from the silicon to the OS to the 3D APIs.
If only they cared about games...

[dr.zeissler]

The "middleware" seems to be "standard-stuff", so who is responsible for that?
Do the porters use their own "middleware"...? what are we talking about? sound-libs/keyb-/mouse/joystick-libs?

it's fine that some games that made the way through the rough 64bit apocalypse also "run" on M1, but that is the wrong approach.
"make mac-gaming great again " like in the early 68k/ppc times