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| Re: JA2 Stracciatella on Mac OS X for noobs[message #231013]
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Thu, 13 August 2009 18:03  
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 Archbar Bettendorf |
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Messages:11
Registered:August 2009
Location: Australia |
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Oh man, this Stracciatella thing looks like a very exciting development for JA2, especially for those of us on platforms other than Windows. I've been playing JA2 on PCs for many years now, but less so since I switched to a Mac for most of my computing. I still have the PC running XP, but it only gets fired up every couple of months now. I've always wanted JA2 (or a similar game as good, not that I've found one) on the Mac, but didn't consider it worth the hassle and expense of going the Bootcamp or Fusion/Parallels route to get it. Mind you, I'm not there yet, and need to ask for some help.
I'd like to try Stracciatella on my Mac (core 2 duo), but the install seem beyond me at first glance. I could probably find the terminal, but I know very little about messing with code. I'll tell you what I've got so far:
Downloaded and installed the latest version of that SDL thing.
Installed X Code Tools from the Leopard disk.
Downloaded the 0.11 binary DMG mentioned above.
Have several versions of JA2 kicking around. Had a vanilla install of 2.12 (I think it was), but modded it to Vengance. Think I have JA2 gold handy on a CD, if that's any use.
That's about me stuck. If someone could spell out what goes where and how, I'm willing to have a go at it. It seems daunting though.
Thanks.
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| Re: JA2 Stracciatella on Mac OS X for noobs[message #232400]
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Wed, 02 September 2009 18:41
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| Centurion |
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Registered:April 2009
Location: E.U. |
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TronCenturionthis only works under intel macs right?
powerbook titanium has a power pc processor I think any chance of ever playing ja on it?
Supporting big endian architectures (like PPC) needs more work. At the moment only little endian architectures (like AMD64) are supported.
I figured it wouldn't work.
If you ever get to release such a port be assured that is going to be extremely popular.
There's a terrible lack of decent games for apple G3, G4, G5's etc and lot's of people have them
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| Re: JA2 Stracciatella on Mac OS X for noobs[message #279040]
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Sun, 01 May 2011 14:17
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| edufinn |
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Registered:May 2011 |
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Hm. I don't believe I did it. I've made JA2 run on my MacBook. I've encountered only one problem I was able to solve with given instructions, but I found solution for it on my own. After I've compiled ja2 and run it was complaining about missing data files and error message always point to following directory:
/Users//ja2/Contents/Resources/ja2/data/data.slf
I've checked ~/.ja2/ja2.ini file. I was missing, so I've created one and addes data_dir setting there. But this didn't helped.
Then I've compiled the game again with following config option enabled:
SGPDATADIR := /usr/local/share/ja2
(I've copied data files there)
But this didn't helped neither.
So I was left with only one obvious solutions:
- I've checked out source code to my home directory (/Users//ja2)
- compiled the game
- created directory /Users//ja2/Contents/Resources/
- moved my Windows installation ja2 to the directory /Users//ja2/Contents/Resources
- compiled lowercase and run it
After that I was able to start the game and even play it.
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