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Return To Castle Wolfenstein for Lion (Intel / Native)

orchard83 said:
Is there anyway to play RTCW on my 2012 Macbook running 10.8 mountain lion? I am looking to go out and buy the CD game, but If it isn't going to work, I would bother.

I've keep hearing playing the game won't be possible. If I can, what has to be done. ???
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Just look at my previous posts and wait :)
 
orchard83 said:
Is there anyway to play RTCW on my 2012 Macbook running 10.8 mountain lion? I am looking to go out and buy the CD game, but If it isn't going to work, I would bother.

I've keep hearing playing the game won't be possible. If I can, what has to be done. ???
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You could install Linux (or Windows) as a virtualized operating system and it would probably run then. It runs under Mountain Lion on my Macbook Pro but that's because it uses an NVidia GPU. My Mac Mini uses the Intel 4000 and it won't run on it.
 
Porting the OS X version is hopeless; going the GNU/Linux-way...

zimondk said:
Hey Frign, are you still working on the mountain lion version? :)

Best Regards

Zimondk
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Hey Zimondk,

I am currently engaged with the suckless.org-community. I really had to evaluate it and came to the conclusion, that it might be best to compile the GNU/Linux-client and wrap it all up in a nice .app.
Unlike the Mac OS X network- and GUI-API's, the GNU/Linux interfaces stayed consistent in the course of this decade. With Mac OS X being almost a POSIX-OS, compiling GNU/Linux-software there in theory shouldn't be a problem.

Unfortunately, I currently don't have a Mac OS X-machine ready. If somebody really urgently needs this game to run under ML and Mavericks, he can provide me with a Mac OS X ssh-account and I'll start hacking ;).
However, I will try to set something up myself in the near future.

Best Regards

FRIGN
 
Frign said:
I found out, that a few months ago, Brad Oliver recompiled the Game (http://sourceforge.net/projects/rtcw-osx/files/) based on the published source-code (ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/source)
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It's working only on 1.41 patched RtCW. Since the patch installer is old carbon, it's impossible to upgrade it on a recent OS X release. I did upgrade it on my old PPC mac then I tried to run it on my intel mac using its recompiled binaries with no luck, it's crashing on opening. Tested on OS X Mavericks.
 
I tried the native OS X binary in Yosemite, and while it works, it has some serious issues. From my testing I saw that the brightness of the game has only three working values, but the most serious is that the load and save operations do not work. Attempting to load or save crashes the game and produces a huge amount of crash output. Essentially, this makes it playable only for demo purposes.

Any progress in the meantime? Or all the interest for this fascinating game is lost?
 
PBMB said:
I tried the native OS X binary in Yosemite, and while it works, it has some serious issues. From my testing I saw that the brightness of the game has only three working values, but the most serious is that the load and save operations do not work. Attempting to load or save crashes the game and produces a huge amount of crash output. Essentially, this makes it playable only for demo purposes.

Any progress in the meantime? Or all the interest for this fascinating game is lost?
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Hey PBMB!
I've been on Linux for 2 years now and have no interest to develop for Mac OS X any more. Any initiative on this side is futile and once you develop in the warm embrace of Linux, you'll hate OS X for what it is.

The reason why it probably crashes with the save-operations is that actually the savegame-load and -save-stuff has the most legacy code of all.
The "layer" between the game-engine and the OS is pretty thin, but you still would have to rewrite about ~500 LOC for the UI stuff, which is non-trivial.

If you love playing RTCW, I'd recommend you to just boot from a Linux Live-CD and load the Linux-version on a USB-stick. A very ambitious user could decide to port the system-interfaces to swift. It definitely is possible, but I'm not seeing myself learning Swift just for this purpose. I enjoy playing this game without issues on Linux. :p

Best regards

FRIGN
 
Thank you for the prompt answer Frign. Unfortunately my Macbook Pro does not have an optical drive.

There is maybe another solution, but I don't know if it is possible to make it work. I have Windows 7 running through VMWare Fusion. Is there some Windows binary of the game available to test it in this setting?
 
What version of Linux does it need to run? I have a CentOS 6.5 virtual machine in my VMWare Fusion installation.
 
PBMB said:
Thank you for the prompt answer Frign. Unfortunately my Macbook Pro does not have an optical drive.

There is maybe another solution, but I don't know if it is possible to make it work. I have Windows 7 running through VMWare Fusion. Is there some Windows binary of the game available to test it in this setting?
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Sure there is! But I'm not sure how well this would run in VMware Fusion ^^
In any case, you could also create a bootable USB-stick with Linux on it.
 
So, that's a no-go for RtCW on 2010 mini with Snow Leopard??
I reverted my 2010 back to snow leopard and I plan on keeping it there. Gonna upgrade the drive to sad and 8gb memory if it helps.... Love the old school games and wanna get back into them
 
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