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Originally Posted by Synthlight

Not much is truly cross platform anymore, not even the flash plugin. With that being said, Stepmania uses DirectX as well. It would seem it would just be a matter or porting and or releasing the source code so you could compile it for linux.

I am never one to promote Microsoft but when 96-98% of the people use Microsoft OS products, DirectX seems like a good bet if you are going to compile and deploy.

Cheers,

Synthlight

Technically, stepmania supports both. And, if you look at stepmania's download page on sourceforge, only half of the downloads come from windows users, so it's not as high as 95%... If stepmania only supported directx they'd have only half of the amount of users they have now. As such, I can assume that making things crossplatform and advertising them in the right places can have a pretty good boost in downloads/sales/whatever.