![]() Just before I was about to release this new version the SwiftKit team contacted me asking if I would consider joining them to bring SwiftKit officially to the Mac. I recoded it including a price lookup and a custom links section, very similar to SwiftKit… which is what I’m getting to. A few months later I decided to recode my RuneScape client project from scratch, as the older code was horrible compared to what I had learned at work. This job was coding for the iPhone – in Objective-C. Here is the original forum thread that I usedĪfter finishing a unit in mobile development at Uni, my name came up when my lecturer’s friend was looking for a developer. There are probably quite a few Mac users reading this right now that actually use that version to play. This version remained the same for about 7 months (with a few minor updates when new skills/minigames were released). I ended up teaching myself the bare bones of Objective-C to get this implemented (it was also my most desired feature too). As it gained popularity the suggestions were always the same, which as you can probably guess was the suggestion of a highscore lookup feature. I sent him a version of my private client, which a few days later I posted in the programming and web development section and created a SourceForge page for. I used this client privately for 6 months, before somebody from Runescape Community (Maxman) messaged me asking about RuneScape on his newly acquired Mac. At this stage I barely knew anything about Objective-C so it was a stretch for me doing what I actually managed to do. It was written in Objective-C, which is the standard programming language for all things Mac. This simple client was pretty much a mimic of the official RuneScape client Jagex released. ![]() It worked very well, and if the browser crashed it would no longer take RuneScape with it. I had waited long enough and decided to put an end to this myself by creating an Application that was simply a website that loaded the RuneScape homepage – keeping my ‘scaping and web browsing to separate Applications. Mac users will know what I’m talking about here, but if you have ever tried playing RuneScape through a browser and browse the internet at the same time it is very unstable and the browser sometimes crashes, ending both your RuneScape and web browsing adventures. I was exactly the person I described above, looking multiple times for a SwiftKit version for the Mac. If you’re a Mac user and you play RuneScape then chances are you have looked at SwiftKit praying for a Mac OS X version, but got delivered that dreaded “SwiftKit is Windows only, there will never be a Mac version” answer. ![]()
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