20070401|StepMania to focus on Mac, drop Windows and Linux

[chrisdanford]

After much discussion in the stepmania-devs IRC channel, the developers have decided that it's best for the StepMania project to concentrate development efforts on the Macintosh platform. Support for Windows, Linux, and other platforms will be dropped going forward.

This decision was easy to make given Apple's market share momentum and imminent domination of the personal computer market. The Windows and Linux ports simply take too much effort to maintain for the amount of users on those platforms.

For more information about iStepMania and our future on the Macintosh, see our introduction page:

http://www.stepmania.com/wiki/Introducing_iStepMania

If you have any questions or comments about StepMania's new direction, please post using the "Comments" link below.

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[Daniel]

I've never felt so buttery in all my life. Oh well....

Gamers rejoiced back in April when it was announced that Blizzard, Square/Enix and Sony were merging their virtual worlds so that online characters from one game could stride seamlessly into another. It made perfect business sense and I was the first to say I wasn't at all surprised by the news. I had been predicting it for months. The fact that it turned out to be an April Fool's joke and entirely false only proves my point. Ahem.

Today's hoax is always tomorrow's reality (except for that fake picture of the guy holding a huge cat.)

That's the best I can do.

[Marth]

Oh man. That looks awesome.

Except that I don't, and never will, have a Mac :(

I must say though, that your screenshots have a very sleek design. Its all non-cluttered. Err...xD

Even though you'll never do it, that design looks awesome IMO.

Also, the "this feature may not work well with the iPod shuffle" made me lol.

[lol]

Originally Posted by chrisdanford

This decision was easy to make given Apple's market share momentum and imminent domination of the personal computer market.

Are you kidding me?

I mean, macs are great (until you need buy accesories)... but "imminent world domination"??

http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=2

Great news for fashion victims.. sad for geeks and noobs!

...

"Do you have a mp3 player? - No, i have an ipod"
lol

[lol]

Originally Posted by lol

Are you kidding me?

I mean, macs are great (until you need buy accesories)... but "imminent world domination"??

http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=2

Great news for fashion victims.. sad for geeks and noobs!

...

"Do you have a mp3 player? - No, i have an ipod"
lol

Damm! :oops: owned April 1st

[banzaigtv²]

Does this mean no SM 4.0 final release for Windows XP or Vista? Darn it! :(

[Oddbrother]

Is this a joke? This kind of news smells a little fishy... :|

[Vyhd]

Let the theming begin!

[markj1122]

I can see right through this post.

[step_2_it]

:shock: WHAT? Please let this be a joke :(