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  • amtrak808
    Senior Member
    • Sep 2008
    • 204
    • NJ

    #1

    Open Rails for Mac

    Could Open Rails in the future be made for the Macintosh operating system?
  • twpol
    Senior Member
    • Oct 2009
    • 434
    • United Kingdom

    #2
    There are no plans at this time for supporting operating systems other than Windows, sorry.
    James Ross
    Open Rails Management Team
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    • longiron
      1000 Post Veteran and Moderator

      • Jan 2007
      • 1453
      • Just south of NYC

      #3
      I know a number of people have successfully run Open Rails using Windows virtual machines on Mac systems.
      Chris
      "True rail fans have two favorite railroads. The B&O and one other."

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      • mnjrr

        #4
        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.
        Last edited by Guest; 02-02-2011, 13:00.

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        • OTTODAD
          1
          • Feb 2001
          • 32344
          • England
          • General

          #5
          Originally posted by mnjrr
          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 ?

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          • longiron
            1000 Post Veteran and Moderator

            • Jan 2007
            • 1453
            • Just south of NYC

            #6
            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.
            Chris
            "True rail fans have two favorite railroads. The B&O and one other."

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            • kox
              Senior Member
              • May 2010
              • 329

              #7
              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
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              • conrail1
                Senior Member
                • Jun 2010
                • 786
                • NY

                #8
                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.


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                Asus Maximus VI Extreme Intel Z87, Intel Core i7-4770K, Corsair Dominator Platinum 16GB PC3-19200 (2400MHz), EVGA GeForce GTX TITAN SuperClocked, Samsung 840 Pro Series 128GB SSD (Windows 8.1 Pro 64)/Samsung 840 Pro Series 256GB SSD (Programs), CaseLabs Merlin SM8 with Corsair AX1200 PSU

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