New Mac OS X port for Macintosh users!

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magroader81
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Dungeon Master HD...in SDL

Post by magroader81 »

Paul Stevens wrote:
I can make an especially big one....just for you :lol:
Gee, thanks. On second thought,why not. Everything cool (or so people say) in these days is supose to be in HD, you could make Dungeon Master HD (DM/DM2/CBS +easy to use level editor & multiplayer support). Oh, and you could program the game in SDL. Cross-platform...yay :D
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SDL, eh? Hmmmmmm. Interesting.
Let's think about that. 'twould be a
learning experience for a very old man. :?
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Yeah DM & CSB in SDL would have been great. Let me tell you about a real cool shoot em up game. Tyrian.
Tyrian was originaly a Dos game. You could´nt play it with out a dos emulator (DosBox).
That was the situation early last year. Now Tyrian has been ported to SDL, it is available to these platforms:
Windows, Mac OSX, (and Linux I think?) PSP, DS, GP2X, Gizmondo, GameCube, Amiga, Dreamcast, and Nokia Internet Tablets.

http://code.google.com/p/opentyrian/

Would´nt it be cool if DM & CSB got ported to more platforms?

Anyways...the reason I am writing is to give you a little update.
I have been trying Crossover Games for Mac. I am now playing DM/CSB for Windows. No Bootcamp, no windows emulation at all. It works perfect. The only downside is it takes a little time to load and it cost $60. But it works.

http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxmac/
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Re: New Mac OS X port for Macintosh users!

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Current available build runs on Intel OS X 10.4.11.
Its a PowerPC application built in Metroworks Codewarrior, which is long since discontinued.

It will need a move over to Xcode.

I'll ask around, I'm not savvy with that shizzle.
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Re: New Mac OS X port for Macintosh users!

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Hi,

Here's my try: http://dl.free.fr/rxnpeAQMF/csb.app.zip

I don't really consider it like a Mac OS X port, instead more a dirty hack of the Linux SDL verion to have it running in Mac OS X. ;) You'll need to install SDL library before running it.

Please put dungeon.dat and graphics.dat in the same directory of the csb.app, or inside csb.app/Contents/Resources (In finder, ctrl-click + "Show Package Contents" on csb.app).
  • Sound works, however I don't really know how :-)
  • Game save seems to work, but load ain't
  • It's running too fast
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Re: New Mac OS X port for Macintosh users!

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Hi LynXX
Can you please repost yoir port with SDL ?
It would be great to play again on Intel OS X.
Thank you
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Re: New Mac OS X port for Macintosh users!

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There you go: http://dl.free.fr/v0PmDj90p/csb.app.zip

I don't think it's really "playable" though ;)
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Re: New Mac OS X port for Macintosh users!

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LynXX thank you. It works and it's playable (no zoom but it's ok).
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Re: New Mac OS X port for Macintosh users!

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I get the "csb quit unexpectedly" message when trying to launch the file on my Mac. :(

How did you get it working? Is there anything I need to do on my end in terms of OS X settings or anything like that?
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Re: New Mac OS X port for Macintosh users!

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Ok, since Mac users are unable to run cbs successfully on the current version of MacOS, has anyone tried a different way to play DM on a Mac? Maybe using an Amiga emulator?
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Re: New Mac OS X port for Macintosh users!

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I haven't used an Amiga emulator in a while, but Hatari is a great Atari ST emulator. You could also try Boxer for DOS, which is really just a nice wrapper around DOSBox. Of the more recent clones, only Dungeon Master Java runs on Mac without some kind of emulation.
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Re: New Mac OS X port for Macintosh users!

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Many thanks, will definitely give Hatari and Boxer a look. Would be great to play other DOS games as well, so will likely go down this route thanks to your help. :)

For Amiga emulation, I think the best way is to get it at www.amigaforever.com/macgamer

It costs a few pennies but in return you get licensed Kickstart ROMs and Hi-Toro, which is the included interface which makes setting up and tweaking UAE (the emulator running in the background) so much easier. I only found this site because macformat.co.uk magazine had a 2-page article in the Feb 2011 issue on running Amiga games on a Mac.
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Re: New Mac OS X port for Macintosh users!

Post by aster »

Alandale, Boxer is a great PC (DOS) emulator for Macs, huge thanks for that! :) It is so easy to use and works seamlessly - absolutely amazing.

Do you know of any other good emulators (apart from Hatari - which I will be trying out in the coming days)? Maybe one that emulates the NES or C64?
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