Open Rails for Mac

[amtrak808]

Could Open Rails in the future be made for the Macintosh operating system?

[twpol]

There are no plans at this time for supporting operating systems other than Windows, sorry.

[longiron]

I know a number of people have successfully run Open Rails using Windows virtual machines on Mac systems.

[mnjrr]

Chris,

I wonder if its possible to run OR or MSTS on a Ipad for that matter if the Ipad uses Windows virtual machines? There are some software packages available to run Windows applications on the Ipad.

[OTTODAD]

I wonder if its possible to run OR or MSTS on a Ipad for that matter if the Ipad uses Windows virtual machines? There are some software packages available to run Windows applications on the Ipad.

Who would want to run a multi-GB simulator on a small screen anything ?

O t t o

[longiron]

No, Open Rails requires .NET Framework, XNA Framework and Pixel Shader 2.0+ for display. The iPAD has only a 1GHz Apple A4 custom-designed, high-performance, low-power system-on-a-chip.

[kox]

Ipad's 1 ghz cpu have equal performance as an 500mhz x86 cpu... so it would be a bit slow and the gpu... it's like a geforce 1 or something

[conrail1]

Who would want to run a multi-GB simulator on a small screen anything ?

Apparently plenty of people do.

X-Plane is available for both the iPhone and iPad and has been very successful. It's also said that the substantial money from the iPhone and iPad sales is funding the PC version of X-Plane.


iPhone -

http://www.x-plane.com/pg_X-Plane_9_Mobile.html

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/x-plane-9/id290619945?mt=8

iPad -

http://www.x-plane.com/ipad/x-plane-ipad.html

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/x-plane-for-ipad/id364163095?mt=8