Dear Jagex,
I would like to bring to your attention that with the next version of MacOS "Catalina" 32-bit app support is being dropped so 32-bit apps including OSRS & RS3 will cease to function.
As a Mac user, this is very concerning to me because I feel like Jagex may not be aware of the situation and therefore have not been preparing a solution to counteract this.
The issue though is that the MacOS RS userbase is rather small and telling people to simply "Get a PC" or "Play on mobile" is not an ideal solution....
As it stands, Jagex almost doesn't optimize the RS3 or OSRS Mac clients as well, the resources dedicated to the platform are rather limited.
And it's not very enjoyable having my OSRS Mac client max out my Macbook Pro's fans when the game can run silently on phones and tablets! It isn't a demanding game, should run silently.
But thankfully, I do have a solution that will work great!
At WWDC 2019, Apple announced Project Catalyst which always developers to seamlessly port their iPad apps to MacOS(No need to write new code, the ported version will simply use the mobile code, it's completely automated).
What this means is, future maintenance & optimization of the Mac client will truly be simplified because it'll simply be done alongside the iOS mobile apps using the same exact code!
Next year Apple will also allow developers to port iPhone apps to MacOS.
Thee great thing about this is that Jagex will be able to get the ported iPad version up and running in just a day, of course some work will be done, particularly interface work but even that will not be difficult because they can just set it to use the Desktop User Interface which isn't that much different than the OSRS mobile one anyway.
Keyboard and mouse support is automated, no changes need to be made to the code.
More information can be found by googling "Apple Bring your iPad App to Mac - Apple Developer"
18-Jun-2019 00:39:49
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18-Jun-2019 00:44:39
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