[AppleAuthority]

Hello everyone:

I've recently came upon the fact that FreeSpace 2 is open source and available for Mac! I have the game for PC and used to play it back in 2000 I believe, and loved it, but I switched to Mac 5 years ago and haven't touched it since. I found out I can run it on my Mac and am excited.

I only have a couple questions. I did some searches on the forum, but I'm not totally clear about how it works on OS X.

1.  According to VersionTracker, there is a "FreeSpace 2.0" download of approximately 1.4 GB. Is it a standard binary or the FS2Open binary? Also, is this the whole game? It seems kind of large to be just the launcher.

2.  The copy of FreeSpace 2 I have came with an IBM PC I bought several years ago. It does seem to include FRED2. Where can I find that, and does it work under OS X?

3.  If I get the FS2Open binary, how do I take advantage of the better graphics, etc.? I looked at the official site, but some of the stuff is a little over my head, and looks Windows-specific.

4.  I was playing with a demo version of FS2 for Mac that I found on someone's iDisk (can't remember who it was). It runs perfectly, but the mouse seems slow during game play, even with the sensitivity set to highest. I recall the mouse sensitivity being much higher on Windows. Why is that?

I think that's all for now    Thanks in advance!

[Sesquipedalian]

Hi.  The best place for discussing Mac stuff is in the Cross Platform Development subforum in the Source Code Project forum.

The short answer to your main question is this:

You can download the latest OS X app from http://icculus.org/~taylor/fso/nightly/

However, you'll also need to get all the data files from off of your Freespace 2 CDs.  If you have a Windows machine available, you can simply do the install there and then copy the FreeSpace2 directory over to your Mac.  Otherwise you'll have to find another method.  There is a topic about it somewhere in the Cross Plat Dev forum.

Oh, and

[AppleAuthority]

Thank you for the info, the link, and the welcome! Greatly appreciated.