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Surprised they didn't port these to Mac yet. Between M series and Game Porting Toolkit (4 now?) it seems like small effort can unlock huge wave of new players n

Surprised they didn't port these to Mac yet. Between M series and Game Porting Toolkit (4 now?) it seems like small effort can unlock huge wave of new players nostalgic for childhood game.

VCFundedGenYer 2mo ago
Nope. Unless Game Porting Toolkit is free and open like Proton, there is little to no prospect of the macOS gaming landscape to improve.
- html5cat 2mo ago
  it is free though, no? am i missing something?
  - bigyabai 2mo ago
    GPTK cannot be freely redistributed, Steam cannot integrate the tech like they do with Proton.
MindSpunk 2mo ago
You can't actually ship a game on the porting toolkit without breaching the license. It's intended by Apple to aid porting to use Mac's native APIs one component at a time, but the license forbids redistribution or commercial use. The community can hack away with it however they want because Apple isn't going to chase every individual person, but a business can't ship it unless they want a nice call with Apple's legal team.
- html5cat 2mo ago
  If i understand correctly Bethesda has the original IP and would just need a regular apple dev account if they wanted to publish, no?