Tag Archives: cross-platform

[ Mac Software ], Program & Develop

[v3.1.3] Bitmap2Material – Generate full, seamless, tiling PBR materials from bitmap image

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Bitmap2Material (B2M for short, the predecessor of Substance Alchemist) is a powerful and easy-to-use free tool that helps game developers quickly generate a full set of seamless textures (normal map, height map, highlight map, etc.) from a single bitmap format of image, developed by Allegorithmic (also the developer of Substance suite) from France, which was acquired by Adobe in 2019.

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[ Mac Software ], Music Auxiliary

[v2021.7, v10.3] Pro Tools – Industry-standard audio production platform

Pro Tools is a digital audio workstation (DAW) software system developed by Avid Technology, which first only appeared on Apple computers, and later also had a PC version. Its internal algorithm is very sophisticated, and it can support audio, MIDI and video very well. Because it uses different algorithm on Mac, just in terms of audio, the sound quality of audio playback and recording is much better than various currently popular audio software on PC.

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[ Operating System ]

Batocera.linux – Universal retro gaming OS

Batocera.linux is a free and open-source Linux distribution specially made for retro gaming, developed by a team from France in 2016. It can be installed on USB flash drive or SD card and turn any computer/nanocomputer into a full-fledged retro gaming console temporarily or permanently. That means it does not do any change on your computer.

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[ Linux Software ], [ Mac Software ], Game Tool

Ryujinx – Simple, experimental Nintendo Switch emulator

Ryujinx is a free, open-source and experimental Nintendo Switch emulator for Windows, Mac and Linux platforms, enables players to enjoy exclusive video games to Nintendo Switch handheld console on a computer. It was created by gdkchan using C#, and aims at providing excellent accuracy and performance, a user-friendly interface, and consistent builds.

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Super Mario

[Wii U, NS] Super Mario 3D World ROM + Emulator download

Super Mario 3D World (スーパーマリオ 3Dワールド) is a 3D action puzzle game work exclusively for Wii U platform (released in 2013) in the Super Mario series. It mainly drew lessons from the classic stages of Super Mario Bros. 2/Super Mario USA on NES console (released in 1988) and the gameplay of Super Mario 3D Land on 3DS console (released in 2011).

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[ eBook ]

Cross-Platform Desktop Applications: Using Electron and NW.js HD PDF

JavaScript used to be just a scripting language running in the browser’s sandbox environment. Since the release of Node.js in 2009, JavaScript has show extraordinary talents on the server side, the Internet of Things, mobile native application development, and even desktop application development. In the past, to develop desktop applications, we need to learn the exclusive programming languages and development frameworks for different platforms, which not only costs a lot, but also takes a lot of time to make a desktop application that supports and is compatible with multiple OS platforms, and basically needs to be implemented by different teams for different platforms.

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[ Mac Software ], Graphic & Image

[v3.3, v2.2] JPEGmini – Reduce JPEG file size up to 80% without compromising quality

The advantages of image compression technology include: reduce the disk space needed for images storage, reduce the cost spent on Internet bandwidth and time when you upload images to all kinds of network drives/image hosts, and reduce the time cost on loading images to the web page and downloading them by the users browsing them. There are two grounds determining whether an image compressing software is good or not: compression ratio and the quality of compressed images.

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