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cszar2001 · Aug 10, 2003, 02:59 AM

Does anyone have news when ET is going to come out for MAC? I heard they were working on bringing it to OS X-but haven`t got a date yet.

daydreamer · Aug 10, 2003, 04:27 AM

heh , who would do that?? Westlake did the original RtCW but to me, they made a mess of it... and they sure are not going to do it for free.. The only person I can see doing this is Ryan Gordon who ported America's Army and UT2003 to Mac...

macenthusiast · Aug 10, 2003, 11:15 PM

they won't port ET, they hardly port mac games when there's money involved, but never when there's not :-(

Brad Oliver · Aug 11, 2003, 12:40 AM

Originally posted by daydreamer:
heh , who would do that?? Westlake did the original RtCW but to me, they made a mess of it... and they sure are not going to do it for free..

I volunteered to do the ET port for free...and I'm a Westlake employee.

Spliff · Aug 11, 2003, 01:52 AM

Originally posted by Brad Oliver:
I volunteered to do the ET port for free...and I'm a Westlake employee.

So what did they say?

Brad Oliver · Aug 11, 2003, 04:10 AM

Originally posted by Spliff:
So what did they say?

I never heard back.

Gul Banana · Aug 11, 2003, 05:22 AM

A pity:/ I thought the original RTCW port was quite well done, and that would have been most of the hard work for ET.

ambush · Aug 11, 2003, 11:19 AM

Originally posted by Brad Oliver:
I never heard back.

Pester them!

Gankdawg · Aug 12, 2003, 07:34 PM

Originally posted by cszar2001:
Does anyone have news when ET is going to come out for MAC? I heard they were working on bringing it to OS X-but haven`t got a date yet.

Friendly reminder as you are new to this forum - when referring to a Macintosh, it's Mac, not MAC.

a2daj · Aug 12, 2003, 09:53 PM

Originally posted by daydreamer:
heh , who would do that?? Westlake did the original RtCW but to me, they made a mess of it... and they sure are not going to do it for free.. The only person I can see doing this is Ryan Gordon who ported America's Army and UT2003 to Mac...

Westlake didn't make a mess of RtCW. It's a good port. Now trying to get Activision/id to approve something in a timely manner, that's a whole different story. The only thing RtCW is missing is support for texture compression.

macenthusiast · Aug 13, 2003, 01:37 AM

and teamspeak

daydreamer · Aug 13, 2003, 10:30 AM

hmm well Duane from westlake did RtCW I think, I just always had a strange problem with RtCW always showing it 24bit instead of 32bit causing my colors to be real ugly, like the wires on beach, they are almost white and reflecting and stuff... I don't have that with mohaa or q3, jk2,... wich are all great ports indeed.

Brad Oliver · Aug 13, 2003, 12:14 PM

Originally posted by daydreamer:
I just always had a strange problem with RtCW always showing it 24bit instead of 32bit

How did you arrive at 24 bit? If you wanna post a screenshot of the problem, then I bet someone might be able to help.

Thain Esh Kelch · Aug 14, 2003, 07:47 AM

Originally posted by Brad Oliver:
I never heard back.

Oh Brad, PLEASE try to reach them again.. I'll be your personal slave for a year, if you port it to mac!

After trying ET on a friends PC im SO hooked on it!

daydreamer · Aug 14, 2003, 07:50 AM

Originally posted by Brad Oliver:
How did you arrive at 24 bit? If you wanna post a screenshot of the problem, then I bet someone might be able to help.

Well when I set RtCW to 32bit (color/textures), it does it , but when I check the driver info button, it says 24bit... while q3, mohaa, JK2,... are saying in driver info im on 32bit.

On an LCD screen I know the colors aren't perfect when you don't set the screen to its native resolution. But they are perfect in all my games if I switch to the native LCD screen resolution , except for RtCW that still has those bad color transitions that low resolutions give me... like the smoke and fog, especially on assault It's extremely ugly...

The strange part is when I set RtCW to windowed mode , it says 32bit in driver info and the colors look normal..like I wish them to be in fullscreen...

curan · Aug 14, 2003, 07:54 AM

You should try contacting them again, though I can understand that you wouldn't want anything to do with them after they ignore your first proposal like that.

Brad Oliver · Aug 14, 2003, 08:53 AM

Originally posted by kuran:
You should try contacting them again, though I can understand that you wouldn't want anything to do with them after they ignore your first proposal like that.

There's a guy by the nick of CannonFodder who has far more connections with them than I do. I agreed to let him try to convince them to make it happen. That was a few months ago. I've heard indirectly that the main reason it's not going ahead is that it'll cost Activision money to QA the Mac version that they did not budget for. Anyway, I'm not going to get into this much further. Splash Damage has a forum for ET. If you're interested in a Mac version, the best thing you can do is let them know, not me.

jamesa · Aug 14, 2003, 09:40 AM

get to it, folks...

http://www.splashdamage.com/forums/v...?p=29986#29986

-- james

macenthusiast · Aug 15, 2003, 12:03 AM

maybe convince them by saying that us mac folks would be willing to pay for the port. Maybe that will convince them to go ahead with it. i'd be willing to pay 20 bucks for ET, wouldn't you?

jamesa · Aug 16, 2003, 10:15 AM

alright - here's the petition

we seriously need more signatures! 103 is pitiful!

http://www.petitiononline.com/MacET/petition.html

OwlBoy · Aug 16, 2003, 01:42 PM

Originally posted by jamesa:
get to it, folks...

http://www.splashdamage.com/forums/v...?p=29986#29986

-- james

Any post on it on Splash damage's forums will result in a lock / deletion of the thread

I don't see why activision would have to pay to have someone port a free game for free.

-Owl