The Unofficial Official Mac Users Group

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Here is the thread where the Mac users of SMAC and SMAC-X can congregate and discuss things.

Let's start by asking how do you play SMAC on your Mac? Do you play it under Mac OS 7.6.1 on a old 9600/350? Do you play it on a iMac G3 500MHz with 9.2 on it? Or do you play it under OS X with the Carbon apps?

As for me, I play it under OS X 10.4.11 on an Intel Mac mini at this time, but I'll be soon playing it instead on an iMac G4 800MHz under 10.4.11. I could play it under 9.2.2 on the iMac but then the CD has to be inserted.

We ought to work out some special games for us to play together. 

[Buster's Uncle]

If this conversation takes off, I could always make a Mac user's subforum...

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I think we're small enough in number that a thread alone might suffice. We'll see!

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Well...

I suppose it'll be a one man army.

I'll have to rig up my two Macs to test out some questions I have.

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Test complete, can't make it work without Netsprocket 1.7. In OS X I'd have to get OpenPlay, which is practically unobtainable.

The question I had was whether mobile airbases offer defense bonuses (like Aerospace Complex: +100%) and the answer is no. Solved with the scenario editor.

[Buster's Uncle]

Say, are you aware of the mac patches we host in Downloads? http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?action=downloads;cat=5

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Yeah, I found them on the way here. Downloaded them all, haven't tried any of them yet.

vyeh has yet to respond. I think it's definitely a case of "one-man-army". I'll go and hide so that I won't look like the odd one out.

[Buster's Uncle]

...We'd love to have more Mac-specific stuff in Downloads if there is such a thing...

[andydog]

Hi guys, I've just installed a copy of SMAC and SMAX on my Mac.

I'm using Windows versions of the game and have installed them on Windows 7 within Bootcamp.  The games work fine.

I did consider installing Mac versions of the game, but wasn't sure about mod & multiplayer compatibility with Windows versions so decided not to. 

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OOOOO LLOOOK another Mac user!

*high fives*

Tell me -- have you tried it under OS 9? Seeing that you mentioned Parallels, I think HAHAHAAA no Parallels will not run on a G3 or G4.

I'm going to be honest. I uninstalled SMAC and SMAC-X. But I didn't delete the ~50 maps I saved (ideal starting locations, unique situations, etc).

Why? Because the game was getting too much of me. I found that I was constantly searching for that euphoria moment, where I got a decent starting location and the A.I. wasn't bogged down so far that I was on top of the charts without having invaded anybody in any real capacity before Doctrine: Air Power. So either I was stuck with a crummy map, driven to frustration, or frustrated by the lack of a challenge. I don't like the harder difficulties because they're too hard but I'm looking for a rather narrow range of difficulty which is too difficult to reliably obtain.

I haven't fired up the iMac G4 in a little bit because of extenuating circumstances but I should soon. It wouldn't take much to reinstall it and play a warm up game if I get word that there will be some enthusiasm in response. I, for one, would be delighted to play a game as Sparta pacted with a University mate who took on some hard-knuckled A.I all together. You research, I conquer. I like conquering and getting dirty in the field.

[vv221]

Hello Mac SMACers!

I'm asking for your help here: I'm providing translations packs to turn an English version of SMAC to French, and have already done the Linux and the Windows one.
But I need some infos to finalize the Mac one.

So, here's what I need:
_the list of the contents of the SMAC install folder
_if everything is under a data subfolder (like the Linux version): the list of the contents of data/voice, data/fx and data/movies
_if everything is in the root SMAC folder (like the Windows version): the list of the contents of voice, fx and movies

Thank you in advance!

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You can find what has already been done here:
http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?topic=8446.0

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Just OS X or Mac OS 9 too?

The only thing different from them is the app itself. The OS X one is called "SMAC Carbon" or "SMAX Carbon" while ... gee I forgot the OS 9 version's name. I think it's just "Alpha Centauri" and...not sure about the SMAC-X one.

I can certainly help, but I don't know any French and the Mac is out of service for a short time. 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.

[vv221]

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
The name of the binaries doesn't matter, because they should be strictly the same between English and French version.
All the relevant parts for translation are in text files and audio files.

(about Mac OS X and Mac OS 9, I couldn't tell one from the other even if my life was depending on it)

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Okay.

I whipped out the iMac G4 and unpacked SMAC from the package. (hah)

Fired up Terminal and typed ls -alR > ~/Desktop/foo.txt for each one: root, Data, Add-on Data and the Temp folder. The photo shows you what it looks like to me. The only things that I changed is I changed the Spartan background music to be like the University one and relocated the tech breakthrough voices somewhere else (because I don't need to hear them any more thank you).

[vv221]

Looks like none of the other versions, nice!

I should be able to do something working on Mac, but it will cost me a headache…