[stargate2008]

Hi, i need help to get the Babylon Project to work on my mac.
I have a Mac iBook. Software Verison is 10.4.6
I am thanking in advance for  anyone who helps in this matter

[taylor]

So... what is the problem exactly.

[stargate2008]

The problem is that i dont know how to do binaries stuff on a mac and i want to be able to play a game called the Babylon Project on my mac.

[BifBologna]

I was able to get the Babylon Project working by dropping a copy of FS2_3.6.9-rc7, which I got from here, into the folder with the Babylon Project files that I got from the TBP on Linux/MacOSX thread in the Babylon Project forum.

I didn't need to compile any binaries.

Bif

[stargate2008]

What do i do after i moved the files into the babylon project folder?

[stargate2008]

Never mind it works!!!!! YES!!!
U guys are the BEST!!!

[taylor]

You can also grab RC8 for OS X which fixes numerous OS X specific sound problems (and hopefully the crashes associated with OpenAL).

[Col. Fishguts]

Out of curiosity, is that a universal binary or PPC-compiled ? Do PPC builds work on Intel-Macs via Rosetta ?

[taylor]

Out of curiosity, is that a universal binary or PPC-compiled ? Do PPC builds work on Intel-Macs via Rosetta ?

It's a universal binary.  I switched to UB not long after Intel Macs started coming out.  From what I understand though, via Intel Mac users, the previous PPC-only builds worked fine via Rosetta, but the UB builds perform much better.

[BifBologna]

You can also grab RC8 for OS X which fixes numerous OS X specific sound problems (and hopefully the crashes associated with OpenAL).

Thanks for taking the time to get us an updated RC Taylor. We appreciate the effort.

Bif

[Col. Fishguts]

You can also grab RC8 for OS X which fixes numerous OS X specific sound problems (and hopefully the crashes associated with OpenAL).

Bumpage.

I just tried this build on an Intel MacBook. Works quite stable, only one random crash so far. Some slight annoyances are ..

1) The music sometimes stops playing mid-mission.

2) When playing a MVE movie, the last interface picture keeps flickering where the black bars are supposed to be. This really gives me headaches.

Oh, and can someone tell how I get OSX to recognise a USB joystick ?

[taylor]

1) The music sometimes stops playing mid-mission.

It's on my list of things to fix.  Basically the sound code is just crap, so I'm rewriting it.  That will all be for pre-3.7 builds though, since it will take me a few months to finally get all of that working.  For now it does't just out-right crash, and that is a very big improvement from previous OS X builds.

2) When playing a MVE movie, the last interface picture keeps flickering where the black bars are supposed to be. This really gives me headaches.

Should be fixed in newer builds.  I'll make sure that you get the newest build by tomorrow and you can verify that it's fixed or not.

Oh, and can someone tell how I get OSX to recognise a USB joystick ?

Don't have a clue.    It should just recognize it though, unless it isn't supported.  I know that various people have had issues getting joysticks to work in OS X, but since I don't use a joystick on my Mac, I don't really have any advice to offer.

[BifBologna]

Oh, and can someone tell how I get OSX to recognise a USB joystick ?

Is it not recognizing your joystick at all or is just squirrelly as all heck? If it's the latter, some of us have found that running the joystick in circles in the pre-flght briefing of fs2open "calibrates" the joystick and makes it useable (twist your z axis as well if you have one).

On the other hand, if your joystick isn't being recognized at all, you might need something like Gamepad Companion.

You might also want to take a look at Joystick and Gamepad Tester to see if you joystick is being recognized or not. Not sure how well that works though. I haven't tried it myself yet. I found the link while I was looking up the one for Gamepad companion.

Bif

[Bubowski]

Back to FS after a long break. On a new compurter and was having problems with my CYBORG 3d, but it looks like GamePad Companion does the trick! Thanks for the tip.