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Tasks |
Use's MS |
Possible Mac OS Porting Time |
Notes |
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Setting up Development Environment & Compile Code |
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1.5 |
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Mac OS Startup code |
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0.5 |
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Operating System Dialogs |
|
0-2 |
This is dependant on number of OS specific dialogs and complexity |
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Getting System Information |
Yes |
None |
No work required. |
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2D Engine code |
Yes |
None |
No work required. |
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3D Engine Code |
Yes |
None |
No work required. |
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Texture manipulation code |
Yes |
None |
No work required. |
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Offscreen/Bitmap code |
Yes |
None |
No work required. |
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Graphical Engine Performance tuning |
|
None |
"No work required. As your game engine was already tuned for the PC, and as the Mac OS Direct-X is tuned to get the most of the user's machine” |
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Movie playback |
|
1 |
Convert to QuickTime. |
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Sounds Effect code |
Yes |
None |
No work required. |
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Music Playback as: - |
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Sample Looping |
Yes |
None |
No work required. |
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CD/MP3 playback |
|
0-1 |
Use QuickTime if required. |
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Midi playback |
|
0-1 |
Convert to QuickTime if required. |
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Byte Swapping code |
|
1 |
This is dependant on how much code requires byte swapping and identifying the problem areas. |
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Keyboard Support |
Yes |
None |
No work required. |
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Joystick Support |
Yes |
None |
No work required. |
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Mouse Support |
Yes |
None |
No work required. |
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ANSI code |
|
None |
No work required. Good on you to use ANSI functions |
|
OS Specific code |
|
1-3 |
This can be dependant on how involved the OS code is. |
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Assembly Functions (if any) |
|
None-3 |
"Depends on amount, but there are tools available to do this for you." |
Approximate porting
time 7 to 12 days
This shows the possible porting time of your product to the Mac OS platform using the Mac OS Direct-X API.
"Depending on how much your code falls into the above categories, you might have to additional time."
Download this table
as an excel file.
