From http://www.graphsim.com

03.19.10
Coming soon, Falcon 4.0: Allied Force for Intel Mac ! Falcon 4.0: Allied Force for Macs with Intel processors is currently in beta test phase. Stay tuned for a release date.

interesting. I wonder if this means they have a new graphics engine for AF? If its on the Mac I don't think DX7 will run, unless they have a DX translation layer. If it is a new graphics engine, I wonder if there'll be a new release/update as well for Windows.

Oh no! I hope this is not the "secret project", (no offense to mac users)

No way!! - hope they patch it to run on Win7 properly also

AF runs great on Win7 for me. I had to pick the non T&L option in video settings though. Once I did that, it ran fine.

OpenGL...?

maybe... a new engine is one possibility or an emulation layer. looking forward to hearing more.

Been working okay apart from the corrupted Knee map despite the current fixes. Whats your knee map like - are you on ATI or Nvidia?

I emailed Graphsim about that. Still waiting for an answer.

good point -- my knee map is messed up also. I had forgotten about that. Other than that, though, it seems to run fine

Maybe F5 (or whatever) is taking a bit longer than they thought it might. So why not take your snazzy new OpenGL graphics engine and throw out a quick moneymaker (Mac AF) to keep the lights on until F5 (or whatever) is ready.

That is, of course, based on a LOT of conjecture. But it's one POSITIVE possible explanation. This doesn't have to be a bad thing, right?

well, whatever, its all guessing based on the minimal info in the post on the graphsim site. it raises more questions than it answers I guess but it is the first piece of new news in awhile for AF, so its definitely interesting.

Ed_1 answered my PM! Still waiting on an answer from Graphsim, though.

cool! so if its ported to OpenGL, I wonder if they'll have a new Windows release as well with the OpenGL engine?

With BMS 4 inbound, the new Falcon standard will soon be set, no matter what LP has (or IMHO has not).

I agree. I think they're buying time. So that they can release F5.

Here's what we know:

LP seems to be the developer of Mac AF. (Publishers don't write code)

Ed_1 works for LP.

He obviously has had very little to do with Mac AF. (His work is data.)

What does LP pay him for?

"Graphsim Entertainment is a premier publisher and developer of quality entertainment simulations and games for Windows PC and for Mac OS." Oops. You're right.

Anyway, Ed's reason for not beta-testing Mac AF is that he doesn't run a Mac. Not that some other developer is doing the beta-testing.

My point still stands, though. Ed seems to be involved with LP (Even if they don't pay him). He is apparently not at all involved with this Mac thing. What is he working on for LP?

This AF for Intel Mac thing does not seem to be the same as the big secret project.

At least, I hope so. :beer:

I just got an answer from Graphsim. This is a direct port and there is no new graphics engine.

thanks for posting!

Wonder what this 'direct' means. The thing that bothers me is "Intel MAC". Such info for MAC ported games usually means that it's just windows exe + Cider (Mac OSX version of Cedega, windows emulator). Some games where release this way. F.e. original version of X3 for MAC.

If that's the case it's not port at all, it's just commercially prepared boundle with emulator + windows version (with some bug fixes to allow it to run without problems).