just a brief note to anyone considering buying a new intel mac (imac core duo / macbook pro) that my macbook pro arrived this morning and I made the necessary changes to ezquake cvs to get it to work

incidentally, did anyone ever get ezquake and png texturings working on their macs in the past?

EDIT: released http://quakeworld.nu/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=6105#p6105

nope.. never got ezquake to run on my g5 (powerpc) tho following some advises in threads..
just been using ur zquake..

btw oldman, i sent u a message the days :p

ah soz. punBB doesn't give a clear indication that you've got priv messages reading now

Besides saying "There are new messages" at the top of the page?

it could do with being bigger font and maybe a different colour. i don't tend to check the header

don't get me wrong, i do love punBB and the layout

I managed to get 24-bit working earlier, just needed a couple of tweaks to the libpng and libjpeg loading to avoid clashes with the ImageIO framework on Tiger

cool oldman. did you get the software version running by any chance?

would be nice with a eQuake or fQuake for mac

i have had some ideas for mac-only special features which i might try and code sometime

sounds interesting....

have you a log file of your ideas, oldman?

You have made me curious!

ah those ideas are top secret!

However, I now have Universal binaries (PowerPC & Intel) of both Software and GL ezquake!

man i look forward to checking out these top secret mac qw features


///me wonders what oldman plans to do with the quartz engine?

uh.. i'd like that much!

make my boss happy and create a fine mac client pack for my mac at work!!!!

you guys see bootcamp? that shit is crazzzzy

yer interesting decision

not really any use for me, the only use for such a toy operating system is to play games really

I just downloaded ezquake source and tried to build it on my powermac but that didn't work
Missing file expat.h and pcre.h amongst other things..

Will I be able to build from the officiall source or should I try to find a oldman-build??

its not really release-ready yet, I wasn't expecting anyone to start trying to build from cvs yet ;P

i will put some test binaries up soon-ish but if you are really keen to get your hands on it now you can do the following:

1. Get Darwinports (Intel users must install it from cvs, PPC can use binary)
2. sudo port install expat pcre libpng
3. Open the osx/Quake.xcodeproj project in xCode. Choose EZQuake or EZQuake-GL as Active Config, and choose 'Release' target.
4. You may wish go to change the settings for the active executable to choose only your architecture (PPC or Intel) in the settings.
5. Build

You should be able to work with that but I'd probably recommend waiting till I put out some official binaries

Was FuhQuake ever ported to mac?

I have a Intel Mac Mini here, I am importing the latest ezquake cvs right now to give it a go.

no fuhquake was not ported to the mac, mainly due to endian stuff that would only effect PowerPC clients these days

zquake was the first mainstream client to be fully endian compliant and ezquake has mostly followed suit (however they never ported the endian fixes to mvd playback from zquake)

Thanks for the info oldman.

I could not get cvs checkout to work for some reason, sf servers down maybe. could you put a source tarball up somewhere?

I downloaded http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cvstarballs/ezquake-cvsroot.tar.bz2 but all the files have some weird ,v prefix at the end for some reason.

the ,v prefix is because that is an exact copy of the cvs

you can proceed by extracting ezquake-cvsroot.tar.bz2 into a directory called ezquakecvs

then in the directory above that you can do

cvs -d`pwd`/ezquakecvs co ezquake

Thanks again oldman, I got it to compile fine.

There does not seem to be the xcode project file that you mention, but just building the intel binary with "make mac_release"

Installing expat, pcre and libpng3 from source via fink, rather than darwinport works fine.

currently via the Makefile you get the Carbon build which is GL only and a bit deprecated in OSX 10.4 days

the cocoa xcode project is in ezquake/osx/Quake.xcodeproj

eventually i will remove the carbon build completely and change make mac_release to do cd osx && xcodebuild etc.

I cant seem to get it to run at any resolution besides 640x480, is that a limitation at the moment?

Ahh, I see.

the project file does not seem to be in cvs.

it could be that the cvsroot tarball isn't actually up to date with latest cvs

sourceforge cvs system has been shit recently

maybe, I cant see it in CVSWeb either though.

yer cvsweb hasn't properly updated in aaaaaaages

unless they fix it soon, subversion migration may be on the cards

Is your plan to eventually release a nice MacOS X package that is easy to install? How far are you away from doing that?

Cheers.

yer that is my plan

the only real things remaining to do are to fix a couple of minor bugs, correct some cvar names and complete the ezquake branding...