On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 14:46 -0700, Cara Quinn wrote: > Matthew, do move to 10.5 when you can. the speed increase and > feature set is amazing!…
It is still a lot of money for me to buy it (even with the higher education saving they offer) and some memory but I may give it a go... > Also, would you mind forwarding me some of the info you just found as > well?… I'd like to help out with getting this going if I can, as well. Basically what I found is that the Makefile for our version of ZQuake can already detect MacOS X (PowerPC). I found a comment from one of the ZQuake developers on a Google cached page that was a forum (that no longer works, lol). Basically there are a few things that need to be set up in the compilation (which is what Makefile controls). One of the main changes is the ``endian-ness'' (i.e. on PowerPC processors and over the 'net, things are stored in the right order (``big endian'') where as with Intel they're backwards ``little endian''). The machine architecture type will also have to be set properly or the compiler will give out PowerPC binaries when we want Intel ones (on Intel Macs, at least). It should, with a bit of effort, allow us to support Linux and MacOS X on PowerPC and Intel hardware, as well as Windows. I may be able to borrow a friend's Intel Mac to test it but first I will have a look at setting up the compilation on my current one (which is running Panther). I did run Ubuntu Linux on it for quite some time and was very happy with it but the thought of AQ on the Mac made me try OS X again. There won't be hugely fast updates on this but it is something I'm working on and maybe we'll be able to get to the stage where we fully support the 3 main platforms quicker than I thought, but only time will tell... Naturally if you want to have a poke around in the Makefile you're more than welcome. Until I update the developer documentation, you will need to either use Subversion as before or, if you like, install MacPorts and get bazaar from it (see http://bazaar-vcs.org/MacPorts for details*) and then run ``bzr branch lp:audioquake'' to get the latest AQ code. best regards, Matthew * There is a simpler way to install Bazaar that doesn't require MacPorts (which appears to use the traditional and pretty cool disk image and Installer way), but as I'm aiming this at developers and MacPorts is a great system that automatically looks after the process of installing, removing and updating a wide range of UNIX/Linux software, it's a good thing to buy in to. Such package management systems, though in many cases even simpler, are what make Debain/Ubuntu Linux so good in comparison to Windows -- in most cases, you just type the name of the software you want, it downloads it and there you go. I think in the case of MacPorts it may have to compile it for you along the way, but I suppose we'll all find out soon, hehe. -- Matthew Tylee Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ AGRIP-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.agrip.org.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/agrip-discuss
