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Sorry, that just not true. You have exactly the... 5,204 Views / 53 Replies  
Sorry, that just not true. You have exactly the same issue no matter which framework you're using - if you have data that goes between architectures then you need to swap it appropriately. If you...
Posted by Dair Grant, on Feb 19, 2006 at 10:05 PM, in Applications
Register for kEventMouseMoved and... 624 Views / 2 Replies  
Register for kEventMouseMoved and kEventMouseDragged events - see CarbonEvents.h.

You will need to calculate the speed yourself (given the delta and/or position of each event, and GetEventTime),...
Posted by Dair Grant, on Oct 30, 2005 at 12:37 PM, in Developer Center
Absolutely. This I'm not so sure about. :) ... 2,012 Views / 35 Replies  
Absolutely.

This I'm not so sure about. :)

When we (http://www.zonic.co.uk/) look for a developer, C++ is almost essential. Obj-C or plain C is a useful starting point, but most desktop...
Posted by Dair Grant, on Oct 6, 2005 at 01:35 PM, in Developer Center
The Pascal calling convention has been a no-op... 1,078 Views / 4 Replies  
The Pascal calling convention has been a no-op since the PowerPC was introduced, and is a left-over from 68K - the crash will be down to something else.

However, even though it's a no-op,...
Posted by Dair Grant, on Oct 2, 2005 at 06:15 PM, in Developer Center
Including <Carbon/Carbon.h> will automatically... 2,903 Views / 8 Replies  
Including <Carbon/Carbon.h> will automatically pull in ApplicationServices.h for you (which pulls in HIServices.h, which pulls in Processes.h) so you shouldn't need any additional headers.

Xcode...
Posted by Dair Grant, on Sep 30, 2005 at 11:56 AM, in Developer Center
If you use File->Open Quickly to open... 2,903 Views / 8 Replies  
If you use File->Open Quickly to open Processes.h, which file gets opened? If you're seeing the version under /Developer/Headers/FlatCarbon/Processes.h then it sounds like your project has modified...
Posted by Dair Grant, on Sep 30, 2005 at 03:46 AM, in Developer Center
You need to create a StartupItem - see... 892 Views / 2 Replies  
You need to create a StartupItem - see http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/10/21/startup.html
Posted by Dair Grant, on Sep 20, 2005 at 08:48 AM, in Developer Center
Are you looking at the bugs with the same ADC... 561 Views / 2 Replies  
Are you looking at the bugs with the same ADC account you used to log them? Radar does not allow developers to see other developer's bugs, unfortunately.

If you can't see your own bugs, contact...
Posted by Dair Grant, on Sep 20, 2005 at 08:00 AM, in Developer Center
Create a QuickTime graphics importer for your... 2,788 Views / 2 Replies  
Create a QuickTime graphics importer for your image, then get a CGImageRef with GraphicsImportCreateCGImage.

Allocate a width * height * sizeof(UInt32) block of memory to hold your 32-bpp RGBA...
Posted by Dair Grant, on Sep 8, 2005 at 05:08 PM, in Developer Center
There isn't a system log file which shows this... 445 Views / 1 Replies  
There isn't a system log file which shows this information, but if you have an application you can register for kEventAppLaunched/kEventAppTerminated Carbon Events to find out when other apps are...
Posted by Dair Grant, on Sep 7, 2005 at 10:35 AM, in Developer Center
Well, not really - the question is if Rosetta... 875 Views / 10 Replies  
Well, not really - the question is if Rosetta will support the PEF (i.e., CFM) executable format. The x86 version of Tiger will support Carbon in the same way the PowerPC version does, i.e., it will....
Posted by Dair Grant, on Sep 6, 2005 at 11:43 AM, in Developer Center
graffix, there isn't a single correct statement... 875 Views / 10 Replies  
graffix, there isn't a single correct statement in your post (apart from QuickDraw being deprecated, and even that's half-wrong given that any modern Carbon app draws with Quartz).

Would you care...
Posted by Dair Grant, on Sep 3, 2005 at 04:48 AM, in Developer Center
Something like: // Get the compressed... 1,856 Views / 6 Replies  
Something like:

// Get the compressed image
cgImageOne = GraphicsImportCreateCGImage(...);


// Decompress it
tmpPtr = malloc(width * height * 4);
cgContext =...
Posted by Dair Grant, on Aug 25, 2005 at 04:53 AM, in Developer Center
Assuming you want to let the system handle the... 1,856 Views / 6 Replies  
Assuming you want to let the system handle the details, use GraphicsImportCreateCGImage (10.3) to create a CGImageRef from any QT-supported image format. Then draw with...
Posted by Dair Grant, on Aug 18, 2005 at 08:56 AM, in Developer Center
The "textbox control" is called an edit text... 737 Views / 2 Replies  
The "textbox control" is called an edit text control.

You can get its text with kControlEditTextCFStringTag, and convert the CFStringRef to an array of UniChars for saving with...
Posted by Dair Grant, on Aug 16, 2005 at 09:12 AM, in Developer Center
Pass it through a CFString -... 1,006 Views / 2 Replies  
Pass it through a CFString - CFStringCreateWithCString, then CFStringGetCharacters.
Posted by Dair Grant, on Aug 16, 2005 at 09:04 AM, in Developer Center
I suspect that crowd is smaller than you think,... 2,768 Views / 97 Replies  
I suspect that crowd is smaller than you think, and certainly goes for the lower-profile titles. Being able to play things like Half Life 2/CounterStrike/etc on the day of their release - just by...
Posted by Dair Grant, on Jun 10, 2005 at 12:54 AM, in Gaming
The report is essentially an Apple System... 609 Views / 2 Replies  
The report is essentially an Apple System Profiler report, generated using the /usr/sbin/system_profiler tool, augmented with some game-specific information.

An ASP report does include things like...
Posted by Dair Grant, on Jul 10, 2004 at 03:44 AM, in Gaming
If you're having performance problems with the... 4,096 Views / 53 Replies  
If you're having performance problems with the XIII demo, please make sure you're running version 1.0.1 rather than 1.0 - this version includes a couple of fixes for some video cards (e.g., the FX...
Posted by Dair Grant, on Jul 9, 2004 at 05:55 AM, in Gaming
If you're having performance problems with the... 881 Views / 8 Replies  
If you're having performance problems with the XIII demo, please make sure you're running version 1.0.1 rather than 1.0 - this version includes a couple of fixes for some video cards (e.g., the FX...
Posted by Dair Grant, on Jul 9, 2004 at 04:16 AM, in Gaming
I've just tried running the PC version on a 2Ghz... 4,096 Views / 53 Replies  
I've just tried running the PC version on a 2Ghz Dell with an FX5200 - it gets about 75fps, dropping down to 40fps when in a big firefight (e.g., the main control room in the stop-code-red level).
...
Posted by Dair Grant, on Jun 22, 2004 at 01:09 PM, in Gaming
Are you using any additional drivers for your... 776 Views / 14 Replies  
Are you using any additional drivers for your Intellimouse? If so, make sure they're disabled while Black & White is running - on Mac OS X we handle middle-clicks natively, but unfortunately some...
Posted by Dair Grant, on Jun 12, 2004 at 03:22 PM, in Gaming
We are investigating a problem where games go out... 1,099 Views / 15 Replies  
We are investigating a problem where games go out of sync, and at present it looks like one trigger is to change the multiplayer game settings away from the default values.

Some combinations of...
Posted by Dair Grant, on Jun 7, 2004 at 04:59 PM, in Gaming
If you do feel like downloading it again, you can... 1,099 Views / 15 Replies  
If you do feel like downloading it again, you can compare what you get to these md5s. These are from this link (http://planetmirror.com/pub/macgamefiles/feral/Worms3DDemo.dmg.sit):

...
Posted by Dair Grant, on May 23, 2004 at 06:30 AM, in Gaming
Hmm, that does sound like the installer is... 1,099 Views / 15 Replies  
Hmm, that does sound like the installer is corrupt - although if you've done several downloads then you'd think one of them would work. Could I ask you to send an ASP report from your system and an...
Posted by Dair Grant, on May 19, 2004 at 09:56 AM, in Gaming
We haven't had any reports of the installer... 1,099 Views / 15 Replies  
We haven't had any reports of the installer failing - did you get an error message?

For network play I think I either posted over at IMG or in the big network thread here with the background: but...
Posted by Dair Grant, on May 18, 2004 at 09:34 AM, in Gaming
Feral are the publisher - the porting is actually... 1,491 Views / 31 Replies  
Feral are the publisher - the porting is actually done by ourselves at Zonic. Since your comments really relate to porting rather than publishing, I can supply a little background.

As it happens,...
Posted by Dair Grant, on Apr 12, 2004 at 11:52 AM, in Gaming
Unfortunately this is also what we've... 8,118 Views / 82 Replies  
Unfortunately this is also what we've experienced. For Rayman 3 (http://www.zonic.co.uk/games/rayman3/) we went out of our way to get the demo released before the game was available to retail, to...
Posted by Dair Grant, on Feb 8, 2004 at 06:50 PM, in Gaming
One of the changes made in the 1.0.3 patch was to... 558 Views / 4 Replies  
One of the changes made in the 1.0.3 patch was to improve support for the Momo Force wheels - so your best bet is to update to that version (and be running the latest version of 10.2, which is a...
Posted by Dair Grant, on Apr 24, 2003 at 05:33 AM, in Gaming
If you can send a mail in to bwsupport AT... 636 Views / 3 Replies  
If you can send a mail in to bwsupport AT zonic.co.uk, we'll take a look. There shouldn't be a problem using a Logitech mouse with the game, but if you can include an ASP report with your mail that...
Posted by Dair Grant, on Apr 3, 2003 at 06:02 AM, in Gaming
Could I ask you to contact support with your... 641 Views / 1 Replies  
Could I ask you to contact support with your details, so we can look into what's going on? You can do this by mailing f1support AT feral.co.uk, and they'll pass it on to us.

Could you also include...
Posted by Dair Grant, on Jan 22, 2003 at 05:57 AM, in Gaming
Follow-up for anyone coming back to this thread -... 829 Views / 5 Replies  
Follow-up for anyone coming back to this thread - Ash's problem hosting a game turned out to be the -hostip command line flag being set in the wrong place.

As far as we know there aren't any...
Posted by Dair Grant, on Sep 11, 2002 at 08:14 AM, in Gaming
There shouldn't be any problems running on... 514 Views / 2 Replies  
There shouldn't be any problems running on Jaguar, provided you have the latest version of Black & White (1.1.6).

Note that this version does have a minor bug if you're not running a Full Install...
Posted by Dair Grant, on Sep 9, 2002 at 04:42 AM, in macOS
We're not aware of any issues with the regular... 530 Views / 4 Replies  
We're not aware of any issues with the regular Apple optical mouse - you will have to use a keyboard modifier to provide right-clicks, but otherwise you shouldn't see any additional lag.

If you...
Posted by Dair Grant, on Jun 4, 2002 at 04:09 AM, in Gaming
I'm afraid not - there was no demo available... 456 Views / 1 Replies  
I'm afraid not - there was no demo available under Windows, which is the main reason there wasn't a Mac demo.

-dair
Zonic
Posted by Dair Grant, on May 27, 2002 at 02:32 PM, in Gaming
That would be Zonic... ;) -dair Zonic 1,075 Views / 20 Replies  
That would be Zonic... ;)


-dair
Zonic
Posted by Dair Grant, on May 23, 2002 at 04:55 AM, in Gaming
The minimum is actually 8Mb, although 16 is... 498 Views / 3 Replies  
The minimum is actually 8Mb, although 16 is obviously better. :-)

It should be fine on the TiBook, although you may want to turn off the high-res textures option to conserve VRAM.

-dair
Zonic
Posted by Dair Grant, on Apr 4, 2002 at 10:49 AM, in Gaming
No, we don't support speech recognition - I'm not... 456 Views / 4 Replies  
No, we don't support speech recognition - I'm not sure why that window was being triggered for you, but that might well be the culprit.

-dair
Zonic
Posted by Dair Grant, on Mar 23, 2002 at 03:14 PM, in Gaming
Do you get the same problem when you're using the... 456 Views / 4 Replies  
Do you get the same problem when you're using the regular internal speaker/non-USB earphones? Or is it just when audio is going out through the USB headset?

I can't think of any reason why B&W...
Posted by Dair Grant, on Mar 23, 2002 at 12:53 PM, in Gaming
One thing you might find useful is to try playing... 384 Views / 3 Replies  
One thing you might find useful is to try playing with a wheel mouse where the wheel can also act as a button. This is probably the optimal controller for the UI, as it lets you quickly zoom in and...
Posted by Dair Grant, on Mar 18, 2002 at 03:45 PM, in Gaming
The 1.1.3 patch is now available from Feral's web... 841 Views / 39 Replies  
The 1.1.3 patch is now available from Feral's web site, at http://www.feral.co.uk/. Changes in 1.1.3 are:

* Additional Creatures
* Support for additional screen resolutions
* Support for...
Posted by Dair Grant, on Mar 14, 2002 at 06:41 PM, in Gaming
This will be fixed by the 1.1.3 patch, which will... 418 Views / 2 Replies  
This will be fixed by the 1.1.3 patch, which will be out shortly (it's currently waiting on localisation). The problem is the ImageRoot declaration on line 9 of the html - this is currently a file://...
Posted by Dair Grant, on Mar 13, 2002 at 03:27 AM, in Gaming
Yes, the Mac version should be able to load PC... 841 Views / 39 Replies  
Yes, the Mac version should be able to load PC skirmish maps: if you find one which doesn't, send some mail to [email protected] and we'll look into it.

In terms of installation, it's the same...
Posted by Dair Grant, on Mar 10, 2002 at 08:38 AM, in Gaming
Unfortunately there was a last minute snag, which... 841 Views / 39 Replies  
Unfortunately there was a last minute snag, which turned up half an hour after I posted.. :rolleyes: We want to do some final testing over the weekend, and we're now aiming for early next week.
...
Posted by Dair Grant, on Mar 9, 2002 at 06:09 AM, in Gaming
Assuming no last minute snags, it should be out... 841 Views / 39 Replies  
Assuming no last minute snags, it should be out tomorrow.

-dair (famous last words no doubt, but that's the plan ;))
Posted by Dair Grant, on Mar 7, 2002 at 07:31 PM, in Gaming
First thing to check is that you're running... 468 Views / 2 Replies  
First thing to check is that you're running 1.1.1, as this is the latest version to date (the version number is displayed at the bottom right of the tips of the day screen that's shown on startup).
...
Posted by Dair Grant, on Feb 28, 2002 at 11:08 AM, in Gaming
Feral (who published B&W) have another developer... 841 Views / 39 Replies  
Feral (who published B&W) have another developer working on an F1 racing game - details at Feral's web site. We're not directly involved in this, but are working on some of the sound code (since it's...
Posted by Dair Grant, on Feb 23, 2002 at 07:12 AM, in Gaming
The original version of the source we picked up... 841 Views / 39 Replies  
The original version of the source we picked up from Lionhead didn't support higher resolutions, although we have now received an update which fixes this - and will be included in the multiplayer...
Posted by Dair Grant, on Feb 22, 2002 at 05:58 AM, in Gaming
B&W doesn't contain any G4-specific code, so it... 687 Views / 23 Replies  
B&W doesn't contain any G4-specific code, so it will run fine on a G3: however as juanvaldes points out, the graphics card does make a big difference.

The game will use as much VRAM as it can, so...
Posted by Dair Grant, on Jan 21, 2002 at 07:00 AM, in Gaming
 
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