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Support => Mac OSX Specific Issues => Topic started by: Dourden_Man on March 28, 2005, 07:02:20 am

Title: estimate
Post by: Dourden_Man on March 28, 2005, 07:02:20 am

no, I am not a dunce like so many I have seen post, I know that the Mac download is down, but do you guys have an estimate of when it will be ported?

thanks,
and no offence implied

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Post by: Blorx on March 28, 2005, 03:56:31 pm

From what I\'VE heard, soon, they don\'t have an exact day but soon Dfryer is doing the best he can, but he\'s doing this alone until I can configure all of the source codes.


IN SHORT: soon. no exact answer. This is programming, be patient.

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Post by: dfryer on April 05, 2005, 08:49:41 pm

Best bet for me to have the time available to do a good job of this would be middle of April.  Even then, no garuantees!

Thanks,
Daniel

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Post by: Durindana on April 05, 2005, 09:12:11 pm

Despite the grumbling, I think the Mac crew thanks you profusely.

Keep it up!

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Post by: [Trogdor] on April 06, 2005, 01:27:07 am

at least, me and Durindana are grateful...

It must be hard work recoding it!  :)

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Post by: Colim on April 06, 2005, 07:57:37 pm

Maybe just about 2 weeks!. I\'m feeling like a child upto X-mas. Can\'t wait to see the result. Especially because I have to run PS on a slappy windows at this moment, and I\'ve a brand new PowerMac standing ready to try it out.
Great game, great work - keep on going.

Title: Some more estimate info
Post by: dfryer on April 14, 2005, 10:24:37 pm

I\'m back to work on Planeshift, so hopefully we will see some progress.  Currently the biggest \"nagging issue\" is that the Planeshift updater has many problems on the Mac.  I\'ve also had some difficulties with Crystal Space crashes, but they may be specific to my situation.

If I have no luck with the PS updater, we can get by (I believe) using Cha0s\'s java updater, but there are a few other problems to worry about (mostly things like vfs.cfg files being overwritten and permissions being wrong)

Thanks!
Daniel

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Post by: [Trogdor] on April 14, 2005, 10:37:52 pm

so does this mean a few days? like 3?

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Post by: Snobaste on April 14, 2005, 11:11:14 pm

I\'m so glad there is finally a (good) free MMORPG for mac!!!!!
Anyway, you should not release new versions until all OS\' versions are done. This would help a lot.

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Post by: buddha on April 15, 2005, 12:03:20 am

I haven\'t posted in weeks, as my hopes had been a bit dashed.   I\'m delighted to help in any way, if I can.  Good to see you all again.

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Post by: provisionist1 on April 15, 2005, 02:40:17 pm

good to have you back buddha, hopefully the game\'ll be up soon.

Xirius

Edit: sweeeeet, I\'m a Conqueror!!!

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Post by: Cha0s on April 15, 2005, 08:29:00 pm

Dfryer, in case you\'re wondering, I fixed my updater so that it won\'t overwrite vfs files (and several other .cfg files) during updates. If you have a full list of what not to overwrite, pass it my way and I\'ll update things on my end (I\'m just using an array to store files not to overwrite, so it\'s easy to add things). Also, I\'d like to request that when an update is put up that people try using my updater with the \"zipentries\" argument as the previous zip issue should now be fixed. The zip archive sizes don\'t come out the same as those from the PS updater (probably due to different compression algorithms), but I believe that the game should function normally regardless. If the tests go ok, I\'ll alter the the program to use zipentries mode by default (much smaller DL times) and change the optional argument to \"ziparchives\" (download the entire archive ).

Anyway, sounds like good news overall. Keep up the good work, dfryer!

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Post by: dfryer on April 16, 2005, 05:38:21 am

Planeshift is now working fine again (on my machine).  The updater has to be run from the command line. There are still graphical glitches and dark patches in the death realm, but that\'s a heckuvalot better than nothing!  If things go well tonight there\'ll be a new release in a couple days.

Thanks, and don\'t *lynch* me if things don\'t work out!

Daniel

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Post by: Cha0s on April 16, 2005, 05:57:52 am

Woohoo! Way to go! *claps loudly*:tup:

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Post by: [Trogdor] on April 16, 2005, 06:09:50 am

YEEHAWWWW!!!!  GOOD JOB DFRYER!!!!!! OMFG!!!!! AHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

lol
  jk

:D

so...youre now going to work with the updater?

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Post by: dying_inside on April 16, 2005, 09:02:41 am

yeah ! go dude go ! well done man . yey ! cant wait to try this game :)

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Post by: [Trogdor] on April 16, 2005, 09:52:00 am

you havent tried it yet?  it was fun even back in the days of PS for mac... :P

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Post by: Burning Monkey on April 16, 2005, 12:41:21 pm

may b a bit off-topic, but i noticed dryfers posts are posted on \'march 2003\' so it sais ....
Pretty weird.

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Post by: [Trogdor] on April 16, 2005, 12:42:12 pm

thats when he joined the forums   :]

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Post by: Snobaste on April 16, 2005, 03:35:20 pm

YAY!!!!! PS WILL BE BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Post by: dying_inside on April 16, 2005, 04:34:47 pm

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Originally posted by [Trogdor]
you havent tried it yet?  it was fun even back in the days of PS for mac... :P

:P alas i havnt .  but  i shall ! * does a little happy dance *  :D

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Post by: Durindana on April 16, 2005, 10:42:35 pm

But: I cannot run psupdater from the command line, as dfryer directs; after navigating to psupdater.app/contents/macos, I get \"command not found\" despite the presence of the \'updater\' file.

FWIW, the psupdater file in the MacOS \'folder\' shows up as a generic \'document\', not a \'Unix executable\' like the corresponding psclient executable.

I already ran Cha0s\' Java updater, which fetched a bit of art and sound, but I can\'t figure out how to update the client.

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Okay, I needed to chmod the psupdater file, sorry. Did that.


Now I get the

WARNING: could not load plugin \'crystalspace.kernel.vfs\'
Couldn\'t load VFS plugin \"crystalspace.kernel.vfs\"!
ERROR: csInitializer::SetupConfigManager failed!
Is your CRYSTAL environment variable set?

error, which I\'ve seen noted a number of times elsewhere as a bad vfs.cfg file.

I tried the cvs vfs.cfg and Cha0s\' file, same result with both.

Note: psupdater.app now runs, but it \"Couldn\'t load downloaded register!\"

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Post by: [Trogdor] on April 16, 2005, 11:08:55 pm

why does it matter if you can run it if the current version isnt on mac yet? ?(  ?(  ?(

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Post by: Durindana on April 16, 2005, 11:12:20 pm

Did I misunderstand dfryer\'s post?

I read it to mean that psupdater now yields a Mac client in version sync with the server.

If that\'s not the case, well of course that\'s fine too. Keep it up!

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Post by: Cha0s on April 17, 2005, 12:17:38 am

The PS client will soon be running on Mac OS X (it isn\'t right now). When it is, there\'ll probably be a whole new binary to DL (which is probably a good idea anyway). Keep waiting and watching (and read more carefully ;) ).

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Post by: Durindana on April 17, 2005, 12:36:17 am

*hits Cha0s with a trout*

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Post by: Cha0s on April 17, 2005, 12:58:23 am

*hits back with carp*

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Post by: Phantasma on April 17, 2005, 03:18:47 am

Hmm are we going to keep going in a loop where a new PC version comes out and the mac users are left in the dark for a few weeks, then we catch up only to be passed yet again? Or was this an especially difficult jump and normally we would only be in the dark for a short time?

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Post by: [Trogdor] on April 17, 2005, 03:31:05 am

or not at all... :rolleyes:

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Post by: Snobaste on April 18, 2005, 03:22:57 pm

YAY!!!! PS 0.3.009 IS FOR MAC!!!!!!!!!!!

(When you say the sounds don\'t work, does that include music? Because the music in PS rules and I want to hear it in the game)

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Post by: provisionist1 on April 18, 2005, 04:27:49 pm

*Xirius takes ChaOs\' carp and Durindana\'s trout and has a grillup in the back garden*

Yea!!! We love you dfryer! But I am kinda sad because our internet is down for the time being. Oh well, I have three essays due in a couple weeks, so I will (knocks on wood) join you afterwards... Oooh, better start working on my new guild webpage too.

Xirius

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Post by: Burning Monkey on April 18, 2005, 06:51:01 pm

Well its mid april now, and i can w8 a little longer, im not complaining.
But I just wanted to say i also ordered WoW a week ago and its still not here.
The virtue of patience is hacking away at me with a double-edged sword. :(

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Post by: Burning Monkey on April 18, 2005, 08:41:27 pm

oi take my words back ... ITS OUT HURRAH!