Hi Cara, Thank you for sharing this very exciting news with us. As an owner of a lot of Apple products, I am very excited about this. Regards, David > On 16 May 2023, at 2:51 am, Cara Quinn <caraqu...@caraquinn.com> wrote: > > It's been a long while, but it's finally time to announce the start of a new > chapter for Draconis Entertainment, LLC. The dragon is awakening yet again! > > This new incarnation of the company brings big and exciting changes. We will > explain those and some of our plans for the future here, but know that we > aren't spilling all the beans quite yet. What fun would that be! > > The world has moved on! > > Our first announcement is that we are bringing new and enhanced versions of > our classic games, along with brand-new titles, into the modern age and on to > Apple platforms, with an emphasis on iPhone! Thanks to VoiceOver, the > overwhelming majority of the visually impaired community has access to at > least one of Apple's operating systems, and this will make our games > available to the widest possible audience. It's hard to believe sometimes, > but that little rectangle of glass we all carry in our pockets has infinitely > more power than any of the PCs or Macs that our legacy titles were developed > on, and with the tight integration of Apple's operating systems, we will be > able to easily make new releases available for iPhone, iPad, Mac, or AppleTV > going forward. This approach means that we can integrate newer technologies > like full 3D spatial audio, touch and accelerometer interaction, and support > for console game controllers and advanced haptics. > > What does this mean for our Windows products? > > We know how beloved these games have been over the years—we love them too—and > we want to bring all of them, with expansions and new features, into the > twenty-first century, so they can be enjoyed by new and old generations of > gamers alike. The support cost for the original Windows games, some of which > were new when Nintendo 64 was the hot ticket and Xbox didn't yet exist, is > simply too high to manage for a small company like us, while also investing > in the future. > > We will be bringing our Windows development to a close and giving these games > new life on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and AppleTV. That said, for the time being, we > will continue to offer downloads of the installation packages for our legacy > catalog on our site, and customers who purchased them may request replacement > keys within reason. (For more details, see the Legacy section of our new > website at https://draconis.llc.) > > Back in March, the legacy Draconis Score Server (DSS) and Draconis Online > License Factory (DOLF) for the Windows versions of ChangeReaction 2 and > SilverDollar, migrated to a new host and received some modernization. As > you've already seen, this brought much needed stability to both of those > services. > > So what’s up first? > > With all of that in mind, we're pleased to introduce major updates to the Mac > versions of ChangeReaction and SilverDollar. Freed from the cross-platform > constraints of developing for both macOS and Windows, we have been able to > add some new features to these titles. The most exciting of which is > full-support for any of the console game controllers supported by Apple > platforms. These include the PlayStation DualShock 4 or DualSense 5, the Xbox > X / S controllers, the Nintendo Switch JoyCons, any MFI controller, and > others. SilverDollar now includes a great deal of new and remastered audio, > support for Apple Silicon, and countless bug fixes and tweaks. > > These upgraded titles will be available as free updates to anyone who > purchased them previously from the Mac App Store. SilverDollar 2.0 is out now > and is available for free. ChangeReaction 3.0 will have its price reduced to > $4.99 in the US when it is reintroduced in the coming weeks. (Prices will > vary based on exchange rates.) > > Looking forward, the development to bring a mix of new and familiar titles to > life is well-underway, and we can’t wait to show you what we’ve been working > on! The future is bright. > > We know the dragon has been sleeping for a very long time. We appreciate your > patience and support more than we can say. Thank you for the last twenty > years. We hope you'll join us as the dragon is reborn. > > > Cheers! > > Cara > > > > > > > > > >
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