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I think there is a bit of confusion.
The release build will not have a moving background. It will be exactly what is seen here, made as bug free as Jim can make it.
All of the Alpha testers went through many many versions as Jim weeded out problems and bugs, and they all did a great job. But, there are only a finite number of computer systems there and so many ways it can be tested. For the most part Jim felt it was 90 percent stable, if you need to pick a number I guess. This is for the last 10 percent of stability testing and finding any more bugs/problems on a wider range of systems.
Once that's done, and Jim feels it's as stable as it can be, then it will be released for sale to the general public. It will be like it is now as far as features go.
Then Jim will begin making the changes while people can join in as he goes. ie. better fish models/textures, animating the background items, etc etc. After those things will come the special creature packs offered for a small fee if people want to purchase those and add them in, then they can. There will be special fish packs that contain fish that are so different they will need special work from start to finish to get it done. The same goes for invertebrates, they will be created as well the same way and offered.
Exactly where in there the decision will be made to take the product at that time and port it over to MAC code will be anyones guess at this point. The entire thing will have to be rewritten.
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