Hello! My Mac only goes up to High Sierra. Is there an older version of GOG Galaxy I can install that will work on it?

Hello,

You can try GOG Galaxy 1.2.67.47 for macOS.

Normally, it tries to update to the latest version automatically, but I suppose that's not a concern when the OS doesn't support it. For reference, Keep Galaxy v1.2 client and avoid the forced v2.0 BETA update.

You can also play the games without installing Galaxy at all, just download the offline installer on the Web page.

You can also stop buying 2000$ computers that have a forced EOL.

Or install Linux on it, since Mac OS is just a bastardized version of BSD.

And since about 2005 they moved to x86 hardware vs PowerPC i believe.

More recently, they moved from x86 to ARM. And who knows how long the x86 Rosetta gravy train is going to last.

Curious. Looking up it seems the new M1 machines seem to be moving to ARM. I do like how ARM is RISC (Reduced instruction set) but hard to see why they are making the move. Although if all their devices use the same set it would make things a bit easier.

https://www.howtogeek.com/677270/deja-vu-a-brief-history-of-every-mac-cpu-architecture/

This site has a bunch of different versions. It won't try to update to a later version your OS can't run. In general I'd suggest just using the offline installers, though Galaxy can also download those (in the Extras section of each game). That can be useful for larger files, since GOG recently mangled their web browser downloading, which used to work fine. Aw, poor baby can't let a Mac topic pass without posting the usual off-topic ignorant stupidity. Must suck to be you. Because they kind of make X86 chips look like crap. That's what happens if you spend years investing billions in iPhone profits to buy your way into the chip-making industry with some of the best designers. Multi-threading scales almost linearly with the number of cores (usually increasing cores results in diminishing returns), efficiency makes laptops have massively better battery life with less heat, and console-like architecture makes the on-board graphics actually functional. Downside is everything is completely integrated so you better order the amount of RAM you expect to use, since you can't add more later.

Oh, I tend to think that they've been in Headless Chicken mode since the departure of Steve Jobs and are coasting on momentum. When was the last time a major innovation was announced, or a new product was introduced? The world laughed at their $1k monitor stand, and I'm not entirely sure if being a luxury brand/status symbol will last. Especially as more designers and artists start to realize that Apple is no longer the Pixar Computer it once was.

Maybe I haven't read deep enough into it, but the switch to a new architecture seems to have been a completely arbitrary one. Sure, there are marketable reasons, but jumping horses to their own chip fab seems like a bizarre longterm decision.

Agreed.

Honestly they need to make an emulation/compatibility suite for iphone and their machines so they can run software as though it were different OS versions for compatibility reasons. They are ticking off a lot of developers and owners.

As for the move to ARM, ARM makes sense as it's a low powered chip and lots of chips later in their life cycle get better optimized and can be run lower powered, but for a desktop machine it seems a little silly. Though it is possible they are moving towards say 10 lite processors rather than 1-2 heavy duty ones, which would make sense. It depends more on how nicely resources play at that point.

As someone who is frugal like myself I'd never consider Apple products. I'd rather buy a $20 monitor with stand and have it ready to work (even if it's CRT) rather than $1k for a stand alone. Actually recent purchases tend to be refurbished Chromebooks that i flash and put linux on for $50 a pop. I don't care if it has a 'Acer approved' or 'Microsoft Genuine' or 'Apple' on it, hell i cover up labels with my own. 'Status' is a terrible reason to get a product.

Though i am curious if someone would make a 1 instruction processor that can be plugged in and run as a proof of concept, rather than just an ISO with that in mind to run on ARM machines. Such a processor could have say 100 instances of itself running inside for very low power, and only resource management (locking) would be needed.

They're not the only ones. Microsoft looks to be planning this as well in their own way.

Then makes me wonder if they are going to go the Android Java route. Software compiled into byte codes which then is JIT compiled to the local architecture and runs at 80% speed (more than sufficient all but the most intensive tasks).

Why would they need Java for that, they already have .net which is a JIT system. Funnily enough it’s only recently got some cross compatability with other systems. TBH though, for any non intensive tasks are going to be JavaScript/electron type things, with direct compilation for other things.

Depends on what stage they are using it at. A typical compiler will tokenize, create an intermediate format, feed to optimizers and generate final code. Java and the intermediate token state would let you run anywhere if you have the JIT/interpreter but optimizations mostly go out the window.

I remember reading about it in the past, but also depends on what will be on the user end system. .NET has a huge library which is a bit too big for mobile systems pretty sure, and if you compare against GCC, it seems 80% of that is for optimizations and cross compiling compared to very small purpose built compiler toolsets.

I also get annoyed at projects that require a lot of external not-common libraries adding say 200Mb to your drive as dependencies when the program itself is like 1Mb.

But i am behind in a lot of the new stuff in regards to programming and the like. Sometimes i just want to start fresh.

Well, C# s one of the biggest used languages out there, and .net core is cross platform. TBH I got annoyed with its “it just works” data plugins for things so I gave up on it. Personally I don’t dev for phones or tablets and am not familiar with the platforms as I rarely use them for such. Heck if I want to write an app I would probably go with pascal!