Note to AH: Mac OS Catalina ended 32 bit support

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Dr.Disaster
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Note to AH: Mac OS Catalina ended 32 bit support

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In their new Mac OS Catalina (10.15) Apple has dropped 32 bit support.
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This means that both LoG and LoG 2 can not be played on the current Apple OS anymore. In the light of this (long announced) development are there any plans to give both games a 64 bit version?
EDIT: sorry guys, false alarm due to me believing Steam's game rating without actually testing.

Fact is: Catalina says both games are 64 bit Mac OS applications and continue to run fine.
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Re: Note to AH: Mac OS Catalina ended 32 bit support

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This should probably be posted on the Druidstone forums. :(
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Re: Note to AH: Mac OS Catalina ended 32 bit support

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Wow, that's a pretty big deal, there is a LOT of software that will no long run then.
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Re: Note to AH: Mac OS Catalina ended 32 bit support

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Komag wrote: Fri Nov 01, 2019 9:40 pm Wow, that's a pretty big deal, there is a LOT of software that will no long run then.
You bet!
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Re: Note to AH: Mac OS Catalina ended 32 bit support

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Sorry for sounding a false alarm due to me believing Steam's ratings without actually testing.

Fact is:
Catalina says both games are 64 bit Mac OS applications and they do run fine.
Tested and confirmed it for both games on my Mac Pro 3 running Catalina 10.15.1

Edit:
After bringing this up to Steam support i got this answer:

"The message you are seeing is happening because the publisher/developer of those titles has not selected that their game supports MacOS 64 bit in our system - we're reaching out to let them know this."

So: AH needs to alter some Steam setting to make these false messages go away.
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Re: Note to AH: Mac OS Catalina ended 32 bit support

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Thanks for bringing this us, and sorry for the long delay!

I've just flagged the binaries to be 64-bit compatible on Steam, so the problem should go away once the Steam servers refresh the store page.
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