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Unreal Tournament 99 on Leopard, Intel Mac
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Early in this thread there was talk about documenting how to get UT99 working on current Macs. Did that ever happen? Any links to that info?
I would like to get the really old original UT working on my Snow Leopard macbook pro. I have the original UT CD, and I think the GotY version.. Back then, I was playing it on a Linux system, and I would like to get it working on my current MBP.
I would like to get the really old original UT working on my Snow Leopard macbook pro. I have the original UT CD, and I think the GotY version.. Back then, I was playing it on a Linux system, and I would like to get it working on my current MBP.
The current cider version is glitchy as all hell and hasn't wanted to run for me after a few initial attempts...but it purports to be an Intel compile, so perhaps there is hope (though I don't know how). Another OSx version of UT GOTY was last compiled in 2003 and was functioning very well for me until I tried to "check for updates" afterwhich it cut out and is throwing up a bizarre error message.
Buyer beware.
Buyer beware.
My OS X Preview version of UT99 still works. I believe mine was originally from the initial release of the UT99 game. The only problem I have is that browsing all populated servers crashes the game and it stalls sometimes when trying to join certain servers. Some of the mods out there cause the loading to stall and I'm not able to join the server.
Other mods load just fine.
I haven't tried to play much. I only joined a few games here and there long enough to realize how little game I have these days and leave after about 15 minutes to get back to work. Either that or I try to join a server and it crashes trying to get into the game. Usually once I get into the game it's fine. It seems to be ok in single player mode too.
BTW, I'm on Snow Leopard on an Early 2008 MacPro with an NVidia 8800 GT.
Other mods load just fine.
I haven't tried to play much. I only joined a few games here and there long enough to realize how little game I have these days and leave after about 15 minutes to get back to work. Either that or I try to join a server and it crashes trying to get into the game. Usually once I get into the game it's fine. It seems to be ok in single player mode too.
BTW, I'm on Snow Leopard on an Early 2008 MacPro with an NVidia 8800 GT.
I'm having trouble getting internetplay to work. When I try to browse for games I get a constant "Querying Master Server" message at the bottom of the page. I can't hit F5 since it doesn't seem to recognize the mac command for it.
If I try to manually join an online game by "opening location" it downloads the files just fine and then it says "Connecting to (name of server)" and nothing happens. Same thing happens with the servers I manually added to the favourites list. I can see the players and the ping and so on, it downloads the files and then gets stuck connecting. No blue screen, no pre-caching. After about 10 minutes or so it just says connection failed.
Can anyone tell me what the problem might be? If I knew what was going wrong I could probably find a way to fix it.
If I try to manually join an online game by "opening location" it downloads the files just fine and then it says "Connecting to (name of server)" and nothing happens. Same thing happens with the servers I manually added to the favourites list. I can see the players and the ping and so on, it downloads the files and then gets stuck connecting. No blue screen, no pre-caching. After about 10 minutes or so it just says connection failed.
Can anyone tell me what the problem might be? If I knew what was going wrong I could probably find a way to fix it.
Hey, I've recently resurrected this game from a burnt disk from three years ago, and figured out how to get it working on my recently purchased Late 2007 2.2GHz Black MacBook. Last week, the back light used to randomly go out while plying DM-Turbine or DM-Tempest (and only those stages for some reason), then I close the MacBook and open it after a second, and the back light comes back on and the game still plays normally, before the MacBook falls asleep. Sometimes, the MacBook resets itself after the previous occurrence. This problem is long gone, but I wonder if anyone else encountered this issue.
By the way, the only issue I'm having now is NO MUSIC!!!!!
I LOVE UT99's soundtrack! I tried editing the .ini file, but no luck. At least the game still works the same after altercation of the .ini file.
Someone on here said they had the music working while playing UT99 on their MacBook Pro....HOW? What can you do? There has to be a way; No music is the only issue I'm having right now.
By the way, the only issue I'm having now is NO MUSIC!!!!!
I LOVE UT99's soundtrack! I tried editing the .ini file, but no luck. At least the game still works the same after altercation of the .ini file. Someone on here said they had the music working while playing UT99 on their MacBook Pro....HOW? What can you do? There has to be a way; No music is the only issue I'm having right now.
By the way, the only issue I'm having now is NO MUSIC!!!!!
Someone on here said they had the music working while playing UT99 on their MacBook Pro....HOW? What can you do? There has to be a way; No music is the only issue I'm having right now.
Just play it in iTunes while you play
Just play it in iTunes while you play
LOL! I tried that when I used to play it on my Sawtooth, but, I hate going back to change the music while switching maps because you never know when the map will change! Did somebody say they made the music actually work??? I've downloaded the Demo on my Sawtooth, and the music played fine, but the gameplay looks and runs extremely bad.
The music files are stored in a format readable by software which ONLY runs on Classic. It has not been ported to OS X, therefore no music.By the way, the only issue I'm having now is NO MUSIC!!!!!
Someone on here said they had the music working while playing UT99 on their MacBook Pro....HOW? What can you do? There has to be a way; No music is the only issue I'm having right now.
As others have said, you can just get a mod player that will read .umx files and play the music in the background
For example: http://cocomod.stalkingwolf.net/
For example: http://cocomod.stalkingwolf.net/
still kicking
I've been running ut on my
Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac10,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 3.06 GHz
It works better than on my old powerbook ppc. Recently however I've had some problems. First the servers browsers didn't load anymore, but I could still play my favorites and manually add other favorites. Then that started working again. Now I'm having problems loading new files from the servers, update of skins etc., so I can't get on servers that update their files.
Any ideas would help, i'll probably jig something that will fix it, but I just more wanted to say I'm still out here too. This is a great game and hope I can play it another 10 years.
steve
I've been running ut on my
Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac10,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 3.06 GHz
It works better than on my old powerbook ppc. Recently however I've had some problems. First the servers browsers didn't load anymore, but I could still play my favorites and manually add other favorites. Then that started working again. Now I'm having problems loading new files from the servers, update of skins etc., so I can't get on servers that update their files.
Any ideas would help, i'll probably jig something that will fix it, but I just more wanted to say I'm still out here too. This is a great game and hope I can play it another 10 years.
steve
I've downloaded CocoModX (LOL Coco is my bird's name) and it works fine. It's just that it's not as good as using iTunes to me, because I can navigate the playlist without looking, and while I'm playing UT. For some reason, it wouldn't let me convert the files at all....
Other than that, I haven't restrained myself from playing UT for a couple of weeks now.
Other than that, I haven't restrained myself from playing UT for a couple of weeks now.
Not sure if this helps.
My problems downloading updated files were related to UTDC and NPLoader.
1. Delete any UTDC / NPLoader files from your UT system folder,
2. Trash your cache
3. Manually put the client files from the latest UTDC into your UT system folder
http://unrealtournament.99.free.fr/utfiles/Anticheat/UTDC/UTDCv21.zip
4. Reconnect and the downloads should complete.
Well that's dumb.
Someone ported UT99 over to OSX on their own time for no pay. Rather than criticize this person for not finding time to convert the music over to OSX, you might want to instead be happy that at least the game was ported over.
Well, I didn't know that, and I am happy about this game being ported over, so don't criticize me for unintentionally criticizing others! It still could have been a little better, though. I can understand a situation like this, but sometimes, if you can't find the time to do things right, don't do it at all. Besides, the person probably did do it right; someone on here said they had the music working on a Mac running Leopard.
Ah, come on! UT99 was the greatest FPS shooter ever. You gotta have that "crap" (what you call it) music.
aight, two years ago I managed to make it run on my macbook, I don t remember what I did, but here are the main system files, just remove the .txt extension. see ya. actually the user file is unnecessary, it's just the other one.
I'm so sad that I can't get the music to work
Is there anything I can do? Does the cider really work? I might just download it; I'm willing to sacrifice glitching for music.
I currently don't have all the maps for the one I'm using. Is there anywhere I can download Map Packs 2, 3 and 4 for the Mac?
Is there anything I can do? Does the cider really work? I might just download it; I'm willing to sacrifice glitching for music.
I currently don't have all the maps for the one I'm using. Is there anywhere I can download Map Packs 2, 3 and 4 for the Mac?
Yet there are armies of people out there producing commercial-quality freeware games that take years for no pay. Cave Story took 5 years to make and the developer never took a penny for it (for the last 6 years at least, now he has a publishing deal).
It's not really an excuse.
I think VLC plays module music too. The PC version does (playing Razor-ub.umx right nowI've downloaded CocoModX (LOL Coco is my bird's name) and it works fine. It's just that it's not as good as using iTunes to me, because I can navigate the playlist without looking, and while I'm playing UT. For some reason, it wouldn't let me convert the files at all....
Other than that, I haven't restrained myself from playing UT for a couple of weeks now.
). Maybe that would convert better?But yea the tools are there to play the music in OSX. Maybe whoever did the OSX port should get in touch with the CocoModX guy? I emailed some praise to him a while back and he replied so he does exist!