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Thankfully long before that. I recall Diablo 1 was released for Mac OS (9?) only a few weeks/months after PC, and Warcraft I and II had full Mac Support! Too b
by cdolan 6y ago
Thankfully long before that. I recall Diablo 1 was released for Mac OS (9?) only a few weeks/months after PC, and Warcraft I and II had full Mac Support!
Too bad the GPU race has left Macs in the dust.
- duskwuff 6y agoDiablo was released for PC in January 1997, and didn't show up on Mac until May 1998. StarCraft had a similar delay (March 1998 to March 1999). All three WarCraft games were simultaneous releases for Windows and Mac OS, though.
- oneplane 6y agoIIRC it was't purely a post-release-port, they did have parallel development tracks before anything was released and for some titles they didn't want to risk the upfront cost for the relatively small percentage right away.
- teej 6y agoI remember going over to a friends place who owned a Mac in order to play Warcraft 2 network games.
- bathtub365 6y agoWarcraft 2 was my first experience playing a cross-platform network game. I was on a PC and I dialled in to my friend’s Mac. Understanding how things are architected now it makes perfect sense, but as a kid my mind was blown since I considered these to be wholly incompatible platforms.
- cdolan 6y agoMulti Player Game > TCP/IP ... Miss those menus