If nobody helps out in the next week or so I'll definiately hook up with a simple ls -R listing dumped to a text file.That's everything I need ;)
Short answer: Can be.
Long answer: Sort of.
When you format a disk with Disk Utility (in OS X, Drive Setup in OS 9 I don't think has that option) you can format a disk as "Mac OS Extended, Journaled" which is what thought I chose.
Mac OS Extended is the same thing as HFS+. Mac OS Standard is plain HFS, used from ... oh, I think System 3.1, Finder 5.something, you had to have the HD20 INIT to use HFS, unless it came in ROM, as with the 512Ke onwards. HFS+ first came out with Mac OS 8.1 by default. It's a really good thing to use for OS 8.1 and I believe it is mandatory with 8.6+. The only thing which may be of concern is somebody using SMAC on a 604e CPU machine with 7.5.5, which if I recall correctly, 7.5.3 is the minimum to run SMAC, but I think there is practically zero people actually doing that.
For OS X, you can read this (http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/71357/how-to-check-if-my-hd-is-case-sensitive-or-not).
If you want, I can sort of help you out, starting in, oh, a week or so. I have an iMac G4 800MHz box with OS X 10.4.11, 10.2.8, and 9.2.2. Because my system is a triple boot I'd have to look at the filesystem profile and report yes/no. To be honest I don't actually know what it is right now.
P.S. Have some free cash? Buy an iMac G4 800MHz machine. They're good machines for older versions of Mac OS. They're kind of slow online though, and they are hampered a bit by their ATA/66 bus. But if you're never played with a Mac much...you ought to try one.
Program quits after loading the red Firaxis logo.Right when it should load one of the videos my translation archive do modify, maybe the encoding is not the same between the Windows and Mac OS version.
If you're talking about text encoding, there is a difference between Mac OS text encoding and Windows/MS-DOS and Linux/UNIX.I am talking about the video encoding, with some strange proprietary codec:
$ avprobe ASCETICVIRTUES.WVE
(…)
Input #0, ea, from 'ASCETICVIRTUES.WVE':
Duration: 00:06:09.99, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 176 kb/s
Stream #0.0: Video: eatqi, yuv420p, 400x192, 15 fps, 90k tbn, 15 tbc
Stream #0.1: Audio: adpcm_ea, 22050 Hz, 2 channels, s16, 176 kb/s
# avprobe output
Did you apply any kind of translation to the movies?Movies included in the translation archive are a basic copy-paste of the movies included in the Windows French version of SMAC. (audio in French, video identical to the English ones)
Sometime soon I'll need to get some work done on it. Since you're much more famariliar with the workings of the game, perhaps a list of the top 10 most important things needed to run the game? I'll also have to analyze the difference between the included files and the translated ones.Honestly, I don’t know.
...eventually I'll get back to this project. I expect that time to be November, December at the latest.That’s perfect, I’m currently on other projects that should take me roughly to November~December ;)
Hey BUncle, shall I sometime in the future make a post that describes the difference in the PC and Mac versions? One thing I noticed was the music wasn't the same, and that mind worm "sound" when Psi combat is engaged in doesn't escalate in pitch on the Mac version: it remains steady.Yeah, you really should do this!
vv let me know if you're still in.I’m still in ;)
On a side note, one of my goals with SMAC/X decompilation projection would be to create a native mac version that runs without the need for wine or emulation.
If you do the movies...ugh let's say I am strongly in favor of subtitles rather than voiceovers. Voiceovers spook me. When I watch foreign movies, the foreign language becomes part of the atmosphere, for me at least. Also the native voice of the actors will be preserved...No way to add subtitles to the movies without the original encoder, and I don’t think it can be found today.
The problem with SheepShaver is that you'll need to first get the Alpha Centauri copy for Mac. Only with SMAC and SMAC-X Carbon is the need for the CD skipped: and of that, only in OS X. SheepShaver cannot run OS X. I can do a trial run to see if it'll work though, that will save you from having to download an .iso plus a 300+ MB disk image.Bandwidth and disk space are not a problem for me ;)
The plain basic install of SMAC is about 220MB. A suitable install of Mac OS 9 that has the essentials is about 40-120MB, not sure precisely. (Mine on my iMac is 303MB, but it has Stuffit extensions, ...actually there isn't that much I installed over the default, but there is a lot that can be removed.)
I attached a zip file of every text file that comes in the /Alpha Centarui/Data/ folder.Thank you, I’m going to have a look on this.
Let me know if you plan to investigate SheepShaver. I can't get the CD drive (external USB 2.0) to be recognized by SheepShaver or Basilisk II: it just spits it back out. I know I did use CDs with OS X and SheepShaver because I used to play Bolo under SheepShaver.Do you have a link to some place explaining how to use SheepShaver?
I think if we sort out the text files and that stuff, we might be okay. I don't know if the menu texts will be changed and stuff like the "COMMLINK". I doubt it.On Windows and Linux, my translation archive takes care of these too.