(what is SDL?) anyway "inquisitor" started the thread that he got a dev-machine from apple and wants to help out coding. Maybe some of the people on Descent2 port could also be interested? (also an icculus.org project?)
SDL, from the website, "Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform multimedia library designed to provide level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, 3D hardware via OpenGL, and 2D video framebuffer." The SDL web site is at
http://www.libsdl.org if you want to check it out.
I haven't grabbed a CVS update in a few months but I'm pretty sure that the d2x project supports OSX already for Descent 1 & 2. If you mean Bradley helping FSO then I'm not sure.
Before i got Freespace1 (got the cd's from my old pc-using era) running on the mac i had to grab some stuff of your site (fs-sounds.vp and fs1.vp) and still it crashes 4 times in mission 3 and then you can play on... strange-strange. Anyway that was nowhere documented, it took me a long time to roam the tidbits and files together from the internet.
Yeah tigital was supposed to include fs1.vp in the OSX package so maybe he'll remember for beta3. fs1.vp is the only required file for using the FS1 port and fs-sounds.vp is going away in the next few days since the MS-ADPCM decoder has been finished and will be in beta3 and in icculus.org CVS shortly. For the crash are you referring to the third training mission or "Small Deadly Space"? No one else has reported a crash in any level but "Paving the Way" and that's only on OSX. Feel free to e-mail me about this (
[email protected]) since I'd like to get this problem fixed.
Now i was wondering if tigital is willing to release his sourcecode?
I think that tigital is waiting until it's "done" but beta3 should be the last one and that's just to test a few specific things. I'm hoping that tigital will find enough time to get the OSX patch whipped into shape and put in icculus.org CVS in the next couple of weeks. Though he doesn't want it completely public yet I think he'd agree to me just sending the code to Inquisitor if he wants to have a go at it. Let me know if you're interested Inquisitor.
What do you think taylor? is it worth it to start a FS_open mac/linux tree?
(is there also a FRED_open if i remember right?)
Well bKtHeG already has a Linux tree it's just not in CVS yet. It may be about time to think about getting it pushed into CVS since though it works pretty damn good for me and some of the small usability stuff has been worked out. OSX support could be integrated in about a weekend I believe. FRED is great, but I ain't gonna port it. Too much MFC for me to remain sane. tigital is interested in looking at it though and maybe someone else could help get it ported to wxWindows so that it's cross platform.
Lightspeed, is there some place other than
http://os.amiga.com that I should be looking? I think I'm going to browse their forum and maybe post the question and see if anyone is interested.
