GM4Mac….work has restarted !
27 Jan, 2010
Good news for Mac users …we’ve contracted with a new developer to support the previous contractor who has also agreed to stay with us and finish the work on GM4Mac. We’ve effectively doubled the effort we had before and work has started on getting the bugs fixed. We should hopefully have a release candidate ready in a month or two. I’ll keep you updated here.
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January 27th, 2010 at 11:40 am
Well that’s great news for mac users
January 27th, 2010 at 12:22 pm
Good to hear, especially since I’m considering buying a mac right now.
January 27th, 2010 at 1:34 pm
[...] programmer has agreed to continue working on the software alongside a new developer. Sandy said “We should hopefully have a release candidate ready in a month or two”. Leave a [...]
January 27th, 2010 at 1:35 pm
If i buy a Mac (and install GM4Mac) could I so use the same code as the Windows Game Maker 8.0 that I bought?
January 27th, 2010 at 4:07 pm
So, GM4 is coming to Mac?
Joke :/
January 27th, 2010 at 5:11 pm
Great news. This means I can think about getting rid of this Windows again
January 27th, 2010 at 5:57 pm
if i buy a liencese for game maker pro 8 windows, when it comes out for mac will i be able to use the same key, as i need the advance features, and don’t want to have to spend money twice
January 27th, 2010 at 8:08 pm
Oh thank goodness I was wondering what happened to this project
January 27th, 2010 at 8:12 pm
YES!! Thanks a lot!!
Finally!
January 27th, 2010 at 10:40 pm
Awesome!! I’ve been waiting for this.
January 27th, 2010 at 10:57 pm
Yuck, mac.
January 28th, 2010 at 12:03 am
Will they an Instant Play for Mac As Well??
January 28th, 2010 at 1:32 am
What about GM4iPad? =D
January 28th, 2010 at 3:20 am
HOORAY!!!
I’ve been waiting for this for soooooo long! I can’t wait for the release!
January 28th, 2010 at 4:37 am
This is even better than I could have hoped. Thank you YoYo you just made my day!
I can’t wait to see how things go now with two devs on the job!
January 28th, 2010 at 4:42 am
Awesome. Glad to hear. I know what a pain it is to pick up someone else’s coding where the one left off; therefore, to have the old developer back, -with- help… that’s great. Probably a load of stress of YYG’s backs, too!
Regards,
Brandon W. Horton
ParodyKnaveBob
$:^ J
January 28th, 2010 at 4:43 am
This is ridiculously awesome! Thanks for the info!
January 28th, 2010 at 5:56 pm
I may not use a mac, but hey hooray! always good to hear stuff like this happening. I would hope and think the mac one could use the files of games made on windows, and vise versa. I believe with other programs Ive seen it works fine. Key code? I’m gonna think its the same, since that kind of thing isn’t PC, Mac, Linux related, Websites do that kind of thing all the time and its the same key code.
well congratulations again. Can’t wait and see what some Mac users ideas will be.
January 28th, 2010 at 9:22 pm
YAYY! MY windows got a virus so i couldnt do this anymore. i will get it for my imac!
January 29th, 2010 at 2:57 am
Yay cuz i own a mac book so i could make games no the go.
January 29th, 2010 at 5:29 pm
Sorry I try saying it again. Hrrmm… If i buy a Mac (and install GM4Mac) could I so use the same code as the Windows Game Maker 8.0 that I bought?
January 30th, 2010 at 5:06 am
Great news!
January 30th, 2010 at 5:02 pm
Whoo!
Do you know if it’ll be able to open GMK files from the Windows GM8, perchance, or is it still going to just be version 7?
January 30th, 2010 at 7:56 pm
Cool! You may as well restart the project based on GM8 instead of GM7. A lot of Mac users are artists, so the new sprite editor and PNG support are a must.
January 30th, 2010 at 8:10 pm
Yes!!!!
January 30th, 2010 at 11:19 pm
I’d still be happy even if GM4Mac were still based off of GM7. The even better news here is we now know that the planned simultaneous release for GM9 for both Mac & PC will be assured now with two developers on the job.
January 31st, 2010 at 6:18 pm
If GM4Mac is released, I am assuming that if the .gmk file created from the Windows version can be opened from the Mac version of Game Maker, and published into a .app file that can be opened on Macs.
However, not every Windows user has a Mac, and vice versa. So you should either make a Version 8a that has both “Create Windows Executable” and “Create Mac Application”, or make some kind of downloadable converter that can publish .gmk into Mac version, or a Windows version if you are using only Mac.
February 1st, 2010 at 8:15 am
Ah, glad to hear you got a new dev, hope it makes things easier for you guys!
Take all the time you need, knowing that GM4Mac’s coming is enough for me, so keep up the good work!
February 3rd, 2010 at 2:13 pm
Does it mean that if I make a game with my Windows GM, I will be able to give that game to a mac user and he will be able to play it ?
February 6th, 2010 at 1:14 am
You will have to provide the GMK file.
February 9th, 2010 at 4:32 am
I was talking about giving the game to players who have a mac. Will only the mac version be able to make games for mac, and only the windows version to make games for windows ? or will we be able to make a game once and just compile it twice so we can give both two versions on our website ?
February 10th, 2010 at 10:37 pm
Going by the last beta: GM4Mac in currently in version 7. So it will accept the Windows .gmk files for version 7. It is to my knowledge that it will also take the windows GM7 reg-keys. Expect only the compatibility Between GM8 and GM7 to be with GM8 and the Mac GM7.
As of now, only the windows version of Gamemaker can create .exes and only the Mac version can create .apps. Sandy mentioned earlier about MABY fixing this, but their more concerned with getting the program released and possible adding that later.
As a temporary fix, you should be able to make a game in GM7 make the exe, then bring the gmk over to mac, and make the .app. As of now this would require 2 computers, but I’m sure there are some people on the GMC(myself included) who would compile the .app for you if you don’t have a mac.
February 12th, 2010 at 5:12 am
well I trust my things to my Dell and Windows 7.
February 15th, 2010 at 12:44 am
Great, I’m so glad to here this is being continued, I thought the project was quite
February 15th, 2010 at 5:59 pm
Hey quick question: where is the official site for this, like the bug tracker site thing ?
February 19th, 2010 at 5:51 am
Sweet. I may not use a Mac, but I’m sure the people who do will be pleased.
March 7th, 2010 at 1:50 am
I’m considering getting rid of my Windows XP Partition if the Mac port of GM is useful, as in it can open .gmk’s made in the Windows Version of Game Maker since that’s all I use Windows for now, these days on my Netbook.
Please say there will be Tiger support. I know it’s outdated but it performs so smoothly on my Netbook.
March 7th, 2010 at 8:37 pm
Oh by the way I hear there have been problems with Snow Leopard,
GM4Mac will be available for Snow Leopard right?
March 7th, 2010 at 8:39 pm
Also will we be able to use our original GM Pro code to activate GM4Mac?
March 10th, 2010 at 5:36 pm
No, GM4Mac is a completely seperate product. Currently no plans for upgrades from the Windows version.
March 23rd, 2010 at 7:35 pm
aww dang, so that’s means my GM Pro code is useless now
anyway when is the new beta estimated to be released
March 27th, 2010 at 1:52 pm
Well, it has been 2 months now, so I guess (and hope) they “have a release candidate ready” soon
I’m curious if this version will support GM8 files though…
April 8th, 2010 at 2:37 pm
So this should be released soon? =]
I now have a mac (I meant to keep my windows laptop but am selling to parents instead). Aside from a few little things, GM is the only thing I miss on a Mac.
April 13th, 2010 at 2:10 am
When is GM4Mac coming out, because the last bugtracker post said:
“We’re making good progress clearing out the bugs we know of with GM4Mac. We expect to have a release candidate available in the next month.” – 2010-02-23 09:52 – sandy
and there hasn’t been any posts or anything since, it’s looking very abandoned
April 14th, 2010 at 11:58 am
@willowleaf : Check today’s News.