OSX testing

[Socapex]

Hello everyone, I am currently porting Valyria Tear to Mac OS X. Initial versions will not contain translations (and OSX 10.6 will never have them because of a bug with gettext).

Are you a Valyria Tear player that happens to use a mac? If so, please comment below. I will upload links to a test version on my dropbox soon. It would be very helpful to post bugs/issues on this thread. Thank you very much,
Socapex

Test versions for Mac OS X

Warning: These are in very early states, which means they could break your computer, put your house on fire, kill your cat and maybe even worst! Please play with caution If you encounter bugs, you can post the crash log here, or message it too me on these forums (I think they have a personal messaging system right?).

Lion and Mountain Lion: ValyriaTear
Snow Leopard: ValyriaTear Snow Leopard

[Last updated: 2013-04-27]

[Knitter]

I have OSX Mountain Lion and I can help testing the game if you need.

Regards,

Knitter

[Socapex]

Uploaded, have fun

The app may crash on load if its missing a library. Very normal and expected, so just post your crash log here if that happens. Thx for taking the time.

[Knitter]

Just downloaded and did a quick test, so far so good

I didn't execute in a terminal so I don't know if there any messages being shown that would be useful (does it even show anything?), I'll do that later today when I play the game for more than 5 minutes .

So for a quick run it all worked fine, game started, sound is good, and I didn't find any errors or actions that could crash the game. I'll be playing the game with more attention later today as I was thinking of providing a translation for it.

Regards,

Knitter

[Bertram]

Hi

This is excellent news

Thanks a LOT to Socapex for the work done!!

Let's hope we'll be able to merge it back soon.

Congrats!!

I hope you'll enjoy playing it Knitter.

Best regards,

[Bertram]

@Socapex,

Mind if I make a quick piece of news to attract attention?

Best regards,

[Socapex]

hehe, of course! Please do

[Bertram]

Quick question: Are the package based against the 0.5.0 version or against HEAD?

[Socapex]

Based against HEAD (well, the one of this weekend). That is why I am calling it a test version (not Alpha or Beta etc). When things are looking good and clean, I'll be more than happy to build using your tags

[IkarusDowned]

note that some features of the minimap might cause a break depending on what arch the Mac OS runs on.
I have very little knowledge of the Mac-world, but i do know that they are mostly all x86 arch now, which is little-endian.
The old PPC arch was big-endian -- that will possibly screw up the minimap rendering.

I have no idea if we are even going to support non- little endian archs, but just incase!

[Socapex]

Everything is fine with the minimap

[Bertram]

Hi all

I've uploaded the latest OSX package (Thanks Socapex!!) and added links on the blog.

I'll talk about that once I've found the time to make some news.

Best regards,