ETpro for Macintosh ET 2.60

Boramor · Post by **Boramor** » Sat Apr 02, 2005 11:25 pm

Hi,

I am a mac user who just rolled into the whole ET thing,
and I was wondering if there is any development on a mac
version of ETpro. At the moment, the guys at TC:Elite are
working on a mac version of their mod, and I would really
like to see this for ETpro too.

Yours sincerely,

Wolf

nihilist · Post by **nihilist** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 12:19 am

Yes, there is work being done.

No, it is not done yet.

Boramor · Post by **Boramor** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 12:50 am

Thanks! I'll just keep checking back!

Good luck!

gotenks · Post by **gotenks** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 5:19 am

remember no work needs to be done for a client... only for servers, clients can connect to any version without issue... as soon as there's a linux 2.60 client anyone can play on etpro (as massively more servers are run in linux then windows)

Boramor · Post by **Boramor** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 5:29 am

Oh ok, that's something I was not aware of.
So I can play on any ETpro server, no matter what?

TC:Elite doesn't function for me anyways, the said on the site that it won't work for mac till the issue a mac update.

gotenks · Post by **gotenks** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 6:05 am

the only thing a client needs from the server is the pk3, and that is universal

uber-noob · Post by **uber-noob** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 6:35 am

gotenks wrote:the only thing a client needs from the server is the pk3, and that is universal

But the pk3 contains also client-side binarys, and these need to be build for the mac first.

gotenks · Post by **gotenks** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 8:30 am

afaik, their server side binaries... they are just included in the pk3

uber-noob · Post by **uber-noob** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 8:33 am

gotenks wrote:afaik, their server side binaries... they are just included in the pk3

No, cgame.mp.* and ui.mp.* are client side (too).

=FF=im2good4u · Post by **=FF=im2good4u** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 8:40 am

yep the .pk3 will need mac files in it

but i think they al come from same sourge code so its just a different compile witch woulnd be to hard i think

ReyalP · Post by **ReyalP** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 10:04 am

gotenks wrote:afaik, their server side binaries... they are just included in the pk3

as uber_noob said, cgame and ui are native executables (bundles, in the case of mac, dll and so for win and linux).

While etpro certainly could be built for the mac, it does require some effort. The game code is pretty much platform independent, but you still have to build and test. Platform specific bugs are possible (For example, in 2.6 etmain, there was some fairly nasty stuff caused by the differences in floating point handling). This is also made more difficult by the fact that mac isn't especially friendly to remote development. AFAIK, no one on the etpro team has a local access to a mac capable of running ET.

gotenks · Post by **gotenks** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 10:41 am

i thought 2.0.7 fixed that, oh well i'm wrong 1 time a day, that's my 1 time

Boramor · Post by **Boramor** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 3:04 am

ETpub came out with a version that is Mac compatible.

gotenks · Post by **gotenks** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 8:33 am

ETPro needs anticheat checks... or all mac clients will appear cheaters...

wipeout · Post by **wipeout** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 3:05 am

gotenks wrote:ETPro needs anticheat checks... or all mac clients will appear cheaters...

Where's the problem?