Will Game Salad Ever Run on Power PC?

jsapplicationsincjsapplicationsinc Member Posts: 3
edited November -1 in Working with GS (Mac)
Hey I was just wondering if this will ever run on a power pc or is there any way to run it on a power pc, and maybe ever just a plain old windows computer?

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  • superNESsuperNES Member Posts: 166
    Despite the poll results, we'll try to get a PowerPC version of GameSalad available in the near future.
  • jsapplicationsincjsapplicationsinc Member Posts: 3
    THANKS!!!!!! THAT IS AWESOME!!!!!!!!
  • sdparduesdpardue Member Posts: 110
    As I send my Intel Mac off to the Apple depot on Monday for repairs (for "4-5 business days"), I'll be going through GS withdrawal!!!

    Would be nice to transfer things over to my old PowerBook so I could keep working, but not critical. A lot of the work in building a game happens outside the tool.

    Steve
  • quantumsheepquantumsheep Member Posts: 8,188
    That's so true, Sdpardue!
  • RivercontrolRivercontrol Member Posts: 1
    Please continue developing GS for PowerPC, I'm a Windows person and just ordered an iBook G4 to do iPhone development. I'm disappointed to learn about the lack of PowerPC support....
  • Sh0xSh0x Member Posts: 3
    That's not true at all, there is a trick you can use to install IPhone SDK on your PowerPC Machine!, cuz the SDK is compiled using the universal binary tech. ^^.

    This is a tutorial on how to get the iPhone SDK to work on PPC Macs (normally it only works on Intel-based macs).
    Here we go ...

    First of all, you have to join apples developer connection. This is free of charge so don't be afraid. After you did this, you have to download the SDK from their page. Both can be done over at
    http://developer.apple.com/iphone/

    Alright. When you downloaded the SDK (it's about 2.1GB) mount the .dmg-file. When you did this, install the iPhone SDK normally. So click "iPhone SDK", follow the normal installation procedure. This will take a while since it takes about 4.3GB or something on your hard drive. When you're done you'll have to reboot your mac. do that.

    Now the interesting part: After you rebooted, mount the .dmg again. this time, click "Packages". On the top of the list you see five packages starting with "Aspen". Install all five of them.
    After you installed all packages, open up Finder and go to /Platforms/ on your local hard drive. This folder contains two subfolders called "Aspen.platform" and "AspenSimulator.platform". Take those two folders and copy them to /Developers/Platforms/ on your hard drive.
    Make sure to copy the subfolders and not the "Platforms"-Folder itself! This is important because I made the mistake to just take the /Platforms/ folder and copying it to /Developers/ when I first tried it. The problem is that this overwrites the already existing Platforms-Folder in /Developers/, thus causing XCode to stop working.
    So, anyway, just copy the two "Aspen"-Folders to /Developers/Platforms/. That's it. Start up XCode, create a new project and you'll have the iPhone-Application-Category up and working, including the iPhone Simulator.

    Enjoy this! I will!
  • wallmasterrwallmasterr Member Posts: 1
    Yes , please keep working on this for Power PC. I love my power pc and don't want to have to shell out loads for a new mac when this 1 is working just fine. I really wana try this program and start developing fun games that i can share with people and play on the go games.
    Keep up the good work :D
    And thanx for the Xcode work around , will try it later 2day
  • EminemEminem Member Posts: 667
    I really hope they make it PowerPC :)
  • TheoBlonkTheoBlonk Member Posts: 25
    me too! My iMacG5 is still doing wel, and I hate te idea to by a new Mac, just for Gamesalad!
  • FranzKellerFranzKeller Member Posts: 517
    I still use my G4 laptop sometimes, but the MacBook machines have a lot of improvements.

    Eventually you'll just want to dive into the new Mac world, it is worth it
  • Jake_RusselJake_Russel Member Posts: 26
    I don't see why you would want a powerpc mac still. Once you get an intel mac, you don't have to worry about upgrading for at least another 5 years. Intel is hear to stay. Throw away the powerpc and get a cheap white 13 inch macbook on ebay for around $400. You not only have a 5 year computer, you get faster speed, more reliable snow leopard and a clearer screen. There's no need to have a powerpc anymore.

    List the benefits (if you can) of having a powerpc and maybe I'll change my mind.
  • FranzKellerFranzKeller Member Posts: 517
    the whole computer industry is about being forced to upgrade, never staying still or going back. ;-)

    or else you wont have to buy more cellphones, machines, software, and they don't get a new YAGHT.

    "What does this year's upgrade do that last year's version didn't?" "It has version 12 stamped on the box." - Tron Legacy
  • coconuts12coconuts12 Member Posts: 1
    @SuperNES
    Despite the poll results, we'll try to get a PowerPC version of GameSalad available in the near future.

    1 Year Ago...ery important. I only have a PowerPC. : (14 votes)
    47 %

    When will gonna launch it?
  • Sh0xSh0x Member Posts: 3
    List of Benefits of PowerPC architecture:(the most important)

    - Is the best RISC arch, powered by IBM with constants upgrades (the power7 cpu is the best cpu ever develop).

    - The assembler instructions are retro-compatible, so you can made upgrades of PPC (32/64 bits), with no effort (With Intel, there are a lot of new intructions sets "SSE3/SSE4" that cannot be applied simply because you can drop compatibility with older intel chips).

    - PowerPC arch creates much more stable executables (because RISC arch is aim to work with a lot of little pieces of code very fast, on the contrary CISC "Intel" works with big pieces of code, and if a piece of code have an illegal instruction or similar, is very difficult to make a recovery, that is why Leopard is much more stable on PPC).

    - It's true that the idiots of Apple drops PPC arch (indeed they are idiots), but I hope that soon some company will create new PC with PPC arch.

    - For me is not an excuse the "We can run windows now"... If you wanna run windows, buy a PC... If you wanna hardware + software quality... buy a PPC MAC.
  • Sh0xSh0x Member Posts: 3
    BTW, I have a PowerMac G5, and I think that is the last apple that i'm gonna buy, If you want Intel power, buy an AlienWare, that is more powerful and cheaper than the Mac Pro (and you can Install HAckintosh with no problem).

    Bye.
  • igpxnaruto4igpxnaruto4 Member Posts: 81
    i told my dad that i wanted to crate apps, so he bought me a mac:D but it turned out to be a power mac wich didn't even work with gamesalad... so now i had to buy a brand new mac D: 1000$ gone...
  • 0oHamzaho00oHamzaho0 Member Posts: 14
    Hi, i just bought a powerpc Imac g5 hoping to use it with gamesalad. Upset now i just wasted my money :(
    Please make a version available for leopard, pleease guys!
  • tenrdrmertenrdrmer Member, Sous Chef, Senior Sous-Chef Posts: 9,934
    edited January 2012
    Gamesalad doesn't work on leopard because apple didn't support leopard for Xcode. So even if it did work you would not be able to publish yor games. this is a learning experience for you. You need to make sure when your buy 5 year old hardware it will work for the software you want.

  • MotherHooseMotherHoose Member Posts: 2,456
    Never,never throw away a working powerPC mac … it makes an excellent server!

    here is a link for GS 0.5 download
    but think that might be intel … can't test for you; my son uses my powerPC as a server ;)

    I prefer the powerPC over intelPC and fondly, perhaps foolishly, hope that with the ARM cpu in the devices (they do run so fast) Apple might use ARM instead IntelPC

    @};- MH
  • andrewm2211andrewm2211 Member Posts: 341
    Okay let me get this straight.
    The GS website is still incapable of remembering our password.
    But GS is putting resources to accomodating 10 year old computers....?
  • MotherHooseMotherHoose Member Posts: 2,456
    no, no @andrewn2211 … GS resources are committed to the latest computing advances!

    Power PCs are OS-X architecture and capable of running Apple's Leopard OS … so they were up-to-date till October 2009; and Apple's switch to only Intel chip commitment with the release of Snow Leopard. (though do remember getting a few updates to Leopard after that!)

    believe, in early 2010, GS dropped Leopard and therefore PowerPC platform support;
    has more to do with needing the latest Xcode for iOS platform development … than not providing builds for older computers.

    and, ah! a PowerPC work so nice … if you owned one, you would want to keep using it!

    @};- MH
  • RPRP Member Posts: 1,990
    Any chance we can get a 68k version of Gamesalad?
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