Pathways into Darkness on Mac App Store

[Hopper]

Ahead of the 20-year anniversary, Pathways into Darkness has been ported to Mac OS X. Brought to you by Mark Levin and Bruce Morrison, who once again put their classic Bungie knowledge to good use. If you're on a 64-bit Mac running 10.6 or later, get it for free on the Mac App Store. If not, go buy a Mac so you can play it.

[General Tacticus]

That is Awesome squared, pure distilled Awesomeness!!!

[Crater Creator]

Ha ha! My twenty years of waiting until it goes free to play have finally paid off!

Why 64-bit though, I wonder?

[Nobody1707]

Probably because 32-bit programs are stuck with the crappy version of the Objective-C runtime and only a very small fraction of the computers that can run 10.6 are 32-bit, so why not take advantage of the extra registers.

[Blastfrog]

This must mean they have the source code. Why no Windows version, then?

[Hopper]

Because haveblue doesn't do Windows.

[Blastfrog]

That explains things. I hope that Bungie would be willing to open the source for the fans. If they did it for Marathon over a decade ago, there should be no problem with releasing an even older game's code even later (unless Activision somehow gets in the way of that).

That reminds me, do we know of the precise behavior of the Marathon 1 build of the Marathon engine? Even from reverse engineering if not being able to see the code itself. AFAIK the M2/MI branch was only ever released.