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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The FRED Workshop => Topic started by: azile0 on February 14, 2009, 01:14:19 pm

Title: FRED for Mac?
Post by: azile0 on February 14, 2009, 01:14:19 pm

Is there any way for FRED to get ported to the Mac? I really want to make some missions.

Title: Re: FRED for Mac?
Post by: karajorma on February 14, 2009, 02:16:42 pm

Find us a coder with the time to do it.

It's definitely possible. The problem is that all the code was written using MFC which is Windows only. If a mac or linux coder wants to step up and port it all to something cross platform that would be very helpful.

Title: Re: FRED for Mac?
Post by: blowfish on February 14, 2009, 02:25:26 pm

Or just modify mission files in TextEdit, like me :nervous:

Title: Re: FRED for Mac?
Post by: Sololop on February 14, 2009, 10:34:58 pm

Currently, I'm using Parallels Desktop for FREDing. You can run it in Coherence mode, so FRED will run as a Window in Leopard, and you run FS in Leopard, and just make sure your saving your missions to the Mac freespace folder. Works for me.

However, running two OS's isn't very good for performance.

But I would recommend Parallels Desktop for any Mac gamer. It saves the time of dual-booting with such things as Bootcamp.

Title: Re: FRED for Mac?
Post by: Sesquipedalian on February 28, 2009, 05:15:34 pm

VirtualBox is free, and should run Fred as well.

Title: Re: FRED for Mac?
Post by: blowfish on March 02, 2009, 01:20:52 am

Quote from: Sololop on February 14, 2009, 10:34:58 pm

Currently, I'm using Parallels Desktop for FREDing. You can run it in Coherence mode, so FRED will run as a Window in Leopard, and you run FS in Leopard, and just make sure your saving your missions to the Mac freespace folder. Works for me.

However, running two OS's isn't very good for performance.

But I would recommend Parallels Desktop for any Mac gamer. It saves the time of dual-booting with such things as Bootcamp.

How are you running FRED with parallels?  I've tried it, and it always crashes for me.  Would you mind explaining how you've got things set up? :)

Title: Re: FRED for Mac?
Post by: Sololop on March 02, 2009, 12:35:01 pm

Quote from: blowfish on March 02, 2009, 01:20:52 am

How are you running FRED with parallels?  I've tried it, and it always crashes for me.  Would you mind explaining how you've got things set up? :)

Well, I'm using Parallels Desktop 4.0 for Mac, running Windows XP Service Pack 3. I have FRED2 3.6.10 revision 5063. Umm, I believe I have Parallels using 1236 MB of my available 2gigs of RAM.

All I did to get it running, was install FS2 retail, then FSO as you normally would on a Windows machine. However, it doesn't run perfectly. It runs real choppy in Coherence and also if I have it open for over an hour it starts getting very slow, and also whenever I close it, I get an error.

Need any more details just ask.  :) I'll do my best to help troubleshoot.

What sort of error are you getting when you try to run it?

Title: Re: FRED for Mac?
Post by: blowfish on March 02, 2009, 08:04:35 pm

What I mean is where do you have everything installed?  Do you have a duplicate FS install on Windows, or are you running it out of the parallels shared folder thing?

Title: Re: FRED for Mac?
Post by: Sololop on March 02, 2009, 08:49:40 pm

I installed FS initially on Windows, under the default Games folder. Just moved the folder to leopard and replaced the builds for mac when the time came. So my Fred is running from C:\Games\Freespace2. I almost never use the shared folder thing.