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In 2000, Bungie was merging into Microsoft, and Take-Two was assuming command of the Oni IP (as detailed in the [[Oni]] article). Having been in development years before OS X released, the best that Bungie could do for compatibility was build the Oni application as a [[wikipedia:Carbon_(computing)|Carbon]] app, meaning it was written primarily for Mac OS 9 but able to run on OS X. Unfortunately the Carbon build was not without issues in the OS X environment. | In 2000, Bungie was merging into Microsoft, and Take-Two was assuming command of the Oni IP (as detailed in the [[Oni]] article). Having been in development years before OS X released, the best that Bungie could do for compatibility was build the Oni application as a [[wikipedia:Carbon_(computing)|Carbon]] app, meaning it was written primarily for Mac OS 9 but able to run on OS X. Unfortunately the Carbon build was not without issues in the OS X environment. | ||
Then, at the end of 2001, [http://www.omnigroup.com Omni Group] [http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/archive/omni-press/2001/000008.html released] a [[wikipedia:Cocoa_(computing)|Cocoa]] (native OS X) build of the game which they had produced for free. This became known as the Omni build of Oni (now usually referred to as the PPC build). Their new builds (released through 2003) kept Oni stable for several years. However, as computers advanced, a critical bug cropped up on both Macs and Windows machines, where Oni's accessing of the graphics card at startup caused a crash. Once the patch was figured out in Windows, it was carried over to the PPC build. Other patches were made in time | Then, at the end of 2001, [http://www.omnigroup.com Omni Group] [http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/archive/omni-press/2001/000008.html released] a [[wikipedia:Cocoa_(computing)|Cocoa]] (native OS X) build of the game which they had produced for free. This became known as the Omni build of Oni (now usually referred to as the PPC build). Their new builds (released through 2003) kept Oni stable for several years. The last Omni build is still available [http://www.insidemacgames.com/news/story.php?ArticleID=7003 here] and [http://www.omnigroup.com/ftp/pub/software/MacOSX/10.1/Oni-1.0v1.36.dmg here]. However, as computers advanced, a critical bug cropped up on both Macs and Windows machines, where Oni's accessing of the graphics card at startup caused a crash. Once the patch was figured out in Windows, it was carried over to the PPC build. Other patches were made in time; see [[AE:OMNI|here]] for documentation and a link to the patch. | ||
However, in 2006 Apple began their third major Mac transition: the [[wikipedia:Apple's_transition_to_Intel_processors|switch to Intel processors]], back to CISC architecture and moving away from the PowerPC chip for which both Bungie and Omni Group had built Oni. For a while, PPC apps could still be run in OS X using [[wikipedia:Rosetta_(software)|Rosetta]], but support for the old architecture was expected to eventually phase out. In 2009, [http://www.feralinteractive.com/en/ Feral Interactive] (Oni's Mac distributor outside of North America) [http://oni.bungie.org/community/forum/viewtopic.php?id=848 expressed an interest] in putting out an Intel-native build of Oni. They obtained the source code from Omni Group, who had begun porting it to Intel, and made a beta release in 2011 [http://oni.bungie.org/community/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=31710#p31710 HERE]. The release is stable, although it has a few non-crashing bugs. | However, in 2006 Apple began their third major Mac transition: the [[wikipedia:Apple's_transition_to_Intel_processors|switch to Intel processors]], back to CISC architecture and moving away from the PowerPC chip for which both Bungie and Omni Group had built Oni. For a while, PPC apps could still be run in OS X using [[wikipedia:Rosetta_(software)|Rosetta]], but support for the old architecture was expected to eventually phase out. In 2009, [http://www.feralinteractive.com/en/ Feral Interactive] (Oni's Mac distributor outside of North America) [http://oni.bungie.org/community/forum/viewtopic.php?id=848 expressed an interest] in putting out an Intel-native build of Oni. They obtained the source code from Omni Group, who had begun porting it to Intel, and made a beta release in 2011 [http://oni.bungie.org/community/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=31710#p31710 HERE] shortly before OS X did away with PPC support. The release is stable, although it has a few non-crashing bugs. | ||
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