Silent Hunter V Dev Team Interview: Deeper, Kapitän, deeper. (1/19/10)

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by rhaas

... as a long time player of the Silent Hunter series, heck, I'm chagrined to admit that during a stint in the US Coast Guard I was playing Microprose's Silent Service for months ...... let me ask: is there any chance of a Mac port for the Silent Hunter series? Any chance at all?

... thanks for not laughing me off the forum.

Well, it looks like somebody tried to do just that. I played Silent Service on an Atari 520ST, and did a lot of work on it besides. I noted at the time that the Atari was way ahead of that generation of PCs, and I really wish I could see where they would be now. Unfortunately they kind of sucked at marketing, and pretty much put themselves out of business. The desktop editor I still use was originally created for the Atari, and I still think it's worlds better than anything else I've tried.

That said, I don't see UBI creating a Mac version of any SH, but then I'm not exactly an insider on these things. On the other hand, with people upgrading all the time it shouldn't be too expensive to pick up a machine that will run at least SH3. Of course I'm despairing at barely being able to run SH4 right now, and SH5 looks like a real loss until I can come up with the money for a brand-new toy.

Anyway, I just wanted to say WELCOME ABOARD!