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gdaswani@silicon.csci.csusb.edu (George Daswani) wrote:



>The question I would be asking if I was a game developer - Macintosh?
>does that use the directdraw interface? NO , how big is the market share?
>10 percent.  The answer seems to be a clear and resounding no for the
>macintosh gaming market..

Actually, it may help it.  Porting from 95 to Mac is a hell of a lot
closer than from DOS.  It may make ports happen sooner and more
quickly.  10% of the _hardware_ market, note- doesn't mean that they
still can't make a substantial profit on Mac game sales.  The entire
industry is growing, 10% is a lot of machines.

>A believer that games are the only pieces of software that holds microsoft
>and intel's grip on the computer industry.

It's probably a significant part, yes.  That is the area where non
X-86 code incompatibility hurts the most in terms of performance, as
you're writing direct to the hardware that another OS/processor would
have to emulate.