Hey Matthew, first off, hope you / yours have had the happiest of Easters! :) Well Until you have an even happier one of course! lol!
Anyway, I did install bazaar and have the latest AQ code but am not sure at the moment, what to do in the makerelease file. Will have another look at it tomorrow though when I'm more awake. :) I know there are several makes I probably ought to look in as well, so any more detail you can send my way would be great. :) I'm not a super command line type of girl! lol! I love big nice friendly GUI's which I know probably make the developer types cringe! lol! Anyway, just wanted to keep ya up to date. Hope you've had a wonderful Easter and catch ya soon!… Smiles, Cara :) On Mar 18, 2008, at 3:43 PM, Matthew Tylee Atkinson wrote: > 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 --- View my Online Portfolio at: http://www.onemodelplace.com/CaraQuinn _______________________________________________ AGRIP-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.agrip.org.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/agrip-discuss
