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Deceth / Battle-City

Build a city, hire a team, drive a tank, orb the enemy! Multiplayer online game.
http://battlecity.org
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Battle City does not work on Mac #28

Closed Deceth closed 11 years ago

Deceth commented 14 years ago

Why not? Is there an emulator that could be used? WINE? BEer... mmm

Rushing commented 14 years ago

WINE works. Tested and confirmed. Thumbs up.

Deceth commented 14 years ago

h2o is reporting being unable to play BC on his MAC using WINE. What versions did you test with?

Rushing commented 14 years ago

I honestly have no clue, I litterally booted up my laptop with CentOS 5 on it, and downloaded the newest version of WINE there was. =/

Deceth commented 14 years ago

We're talking about getting it to work on an Apple Mac, not Linux.

Rushing commented 14 years ago

Ah sorry, my mistake, I guess I read that a little fast. Have you noticed that the wiki times are completely messed up? Apparantly, you posted your last message a day ago ;)

Deceth commented 14 years ago

My times on the issue list are perfectly normal. Why yours are crazy is a mystery to me.

Rushing commented 14 years ago

Screenshot link in the next post

Rushing commented 14 years ago

http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/1492/lolwutav.jpg

=(

rileyw commented 11 years ago

A cross-platform client may help with increasing the number of players in the game. A native client will require a transition from Win32 technologies such as DirectX to OpenGL. It is possible to use emulators or virtual machines to play games; however, players will have a poor experience if this is the only method for playing.

Other options may include adopting a different technology such as Unity3D that allow developers to publish the client to multiple platforms (http://unity3d.com/unity/multiplatform/).

Deceth commented 11 years ago

As an interim solution, as Riley suggested, installing a virtual machine is one way you could play Battle City on any platform (so long as you can get a copy of Windows to run in the VM). This didn't used to work well, but with the increasing power of computers, these days it could be a realistic option for you if you can spare 1 or 2 GB of RAM for your VM. Most people can probably give it more than that if they close it down once they're done playing.

VirtualBox is a free virtual machine: https://www.virtualbox.org/

rileyw commented 11 years ago

This issue can be closed since it cannot be fixed in the code.