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Posted: 8th Apr 2008 06:38
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Ok, this may seem like a stupid Question, but do you need a Max OX os to make apps for the IPHONE? cause i was trying to download the IPhone SDK and it's in DMG format and since i don't have that perticular format or a program to open it, i wonder if i can even make an App for the IPhone on windows

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Jeku
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Posted: 8th Apr 2008 08:38
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Yes, you need a Mac unfortunately. I wish I had a Mac so I could port some projects over to the iPhone. You should check out the video on the SDK page where the iPhone SDK is discussed in detail. Here's the gist of what I saw.

- The SDK is free.
- The SDK comes with a full iPhone emulator so you don't have to even own an iPhone.
- You can use the debugger from the IDE on the iPhone itself with a USB cable-- that is pretty sweet.
- It's free to sell your game on the upcoming Apple marketplace (kind of like Xbox Live I assume.) You set your price and Apple takes 30%--- that is VERY fair. You can even make your application free and then you don't pay.
- If you want to be able to transfer your program onto a physical iPhone for testing and developing (again, you don't need to as there's an emulator), you have to sign up for their version of the Creator's Club for $99 (not sure if this is yearly). That's pretty decent.
- You can also develop for the iPod Touch.

I probably missed a bunch of things, but yah, now's the time I'd love to own a Mac


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Oooh, that sounds nice. Keep playing with the idea of getting a Mac Mini as a media center on my TV to replace my Tvix media streamer. Plus I want to get an iPhone (once 32gb and pref 3G comes out) to replace my iPod 60gb and Sony phone. The SDK could swing things for me.

So deffo no Windows love in the future from Apple?

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You know what would make a great OS if Windows and Apple came together and made one big OS.

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Now, do i just need the OS? and i can install install it on a PC or do i need a physical mac?

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Posted: 8th Apr 2008 15:24
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I think there is various projects out there, but dunno how good they are. I remember looking a couple of years ago and it wasn't great. Apple don't like their OS running on other computers for some reason. On the other hand get an Apple and bootcamp it with Vista or XP.

Thanks to the portability of the Mac Mini I am seriously considering getting one for a media streamer and iPhone SDK. Can then just pick it up and plug into a monitor (if can't be bothered programming on an LCD TV screen). Must remember to get a monitor with dual DVI...

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well, there goes my dream of making apps for the IPhone

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It's quite easy to install MacOSX 11 on a PC. As long as you have a modernish cpu that supports sse2 and sse3 (ideally). That counts all core 2 processors and newer AMD athlons and phenoms. I did it once but since then I've replaces OSX with an x64 version of Vista.

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Note: You can open DMG files with PowerISO I believe.

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5Louiz
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Posted: 9th Apr 2008 01:05 Edited at: 9th Apr 2008 01:05
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Very interesting. I would certainly study it if still had my mac.

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