Spring RTS Engine

Wonderful to hear that a Mac version may be possible. I posted something about this in the General forum. Never thought of looking here!

You know this is a sad indictment for the gaming industry as a whole. If a bunch of geeks can get together with no money and create (alright, REcreate) this, then what the devil has the gaming industry been doing since 1997?

Here's hoping for a Mac port.

I agree with jensgb. A simple way to make the two simplest modifications is what is needed first of all. The deleting of orders and the dragging of the dashed boxes are two brilliantly simple ideas which need similarly simple implementations.

Surely something much simpler would be to look at the already existing behaviour and modify it very slightly. Right now if my Commander has an order queue to build: (1) A solar collector. (2) A metal extractor. (3) A KBot lab. then if I press shift, (1), (2) and (3) will show in dashed outline. To m...

So there is hope...

As far as what I've read, the reason the original TA did not allow Mac to Windows play was because DirectPlay was used. This surely isn't a problem with Spring?

This was always a problem in the original's build system. Admittedly, even with the lack of deleting mid-queue items, the build system was, and still is, head and shoulders above any other game's that I have played.

Now I know the TA:Spring creators have no intention of porting this piece of delight to other platforms. But the fact that TA's gameplay executes perfectly on Spring (I haven't tested this myself yet, but reports look very encouraging) means that us Mac users may finally have a foot in the door towa...