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I'm Windows user but I'd like to ask out of curiosity: is there going to be linux or MAC version of the game?
im running elemental on my macbook pro via bootcamp and it runs amazingly smooth. But i am only bootcamping windows because of Elemental. I'd like love an OSX version...
Wow, really? If I'm not mistaken, Linux used to be pretty much neck-in-neck with Apple. Of course that was before Apple's relatively recent big-time marketing push.
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp
The assumption has to be that each group of OS users uses w3schools equally. It could just mean that WinXP users need more help than their Linux counterparts 
"Then there was the man who drowned crossing a stream with an average depth of six inches."
W. I. E. Gates
Another source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems
hmmm i just got an iMAC today and it runs like a dream... all this time i was playing elemental on cloth map due to crappy laptop with marginal specs. so does this game run on mac or what? impulse reactor doesnt install and the ewom disc wont install either lol. i have a bad feeling about this =/
Elemental is a Windows game. MacOS is not supported.
how about the expansions any chance there? or no...
i gotta say the mac os runs so much smoother than the windows i cant believe it took me this long to try it out. i have a bad feeling ima have to save money again so i can get another pc just to run elemental omg this really sucks. =((
Anyone know ark fatalis? That game had recently its source code released, under the GPL3 license. Now fans of the game have started porting efforts that will among other things, bring over Ark Fatalis to Linux natively.
Why doesn't any Linux/Mac games developer make an Spiritual Succesor to Elemental for those platforms?* Valve? Blizzard? Any of the "locals"?
Even if Stardock were to diversify in the near future (where "near" could be "no less than some years" as far as my total ignorance about the topic goes), right now there seems to be no real reasons for them to go beyond their Windows scope, despite Linux/Mac fans not agreeing with their reasons (as in many many many many times and threads mentioned already). Even less to release the source code (as in also mentioned like a lot of times too...).
* Oh my, I feel dirty and evil now. 
*hides under a rock*
You know, you don't have to release the source code if you write something for linux. It all depends on how you license the software. There is software out there that is closed, and for linux. Just FYI.
I'm sure I've mentioned it in other linux thread, but anyway. Latest EWoM runs fine* on latest wine so its all not as bad anymore.
* Well, there are some glitches with 3D, and fonts are weird to the state of near unreadability, but overall its playable and almost does not crash
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