[quake3] Re: Mac OS X

[Zachary J. Slater]

Mike Davis wrote:
> Not sure what you're referring to but I've built a universal binary with 
> the SDL framework (from source) and not the SDL dylib and it works fine 
> *except* that the audio needs to be set lower because of a crash in 
> Apple's OpenAL. I didn't try it with Ryan Gordon's OpenAL.
> 
> If someone wants me to construct a universal binary let me know. I'm 
> happy to supply both single processor and smp versions too and have 
> access to PPC (dual 2Ghz G5) and Intel (iMac) systems. I can even host 
> the download.
> 
> The installer would be a bit tricky as you essentially have to "patch" 
> the original Quake 3 app. Since there're at least two for OSX (G3 and G4 
> variants) it gets a bit curly. It might be simpler to write a simple app 
> that "patches" a user selected binary (i.e. something simple in AppKit 
> that allows the user to specify the application to "fix"). That would be 
> easier to do than some magic shell scripts for a pkg. If we could 
> provide the whole .app packages with nib files and so on that'd be very 
> convenient though the makefile doesn't generate such a wrapper and I 
> don't know the legal implications.
> 
> FWIW, I even have the possibility of getting PunkBuster back in the 
> equation and, in theory, each OS they support. A guy on quake3world.com 
> contacted them when I was writing about the performance tests I did for 
> Q3 builds.
> 

No punkbuster unless I hear directly from even balance, even though I 
don't see how it could happen. I understand it would make many users 
happy to have it, even if it isn't the best solution, it is the only one.

For the installer I'd rather install to a different directory than the 
id default of /Applications/Quake3/, I'd prefer like the windows 
installer does and set up a new /Applications/ioquake3/ directory with 
the .app in there along with baseq3/etc dirs.

No "fix" things please, I don't want to screw with people's regular 
quake 3 installs.
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- Zachary J. Slater
zakk at timedoctor.org
zacharyslater at gmail.com