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Originally written by Celtic Minstrel:

A few questions:

1. Are you basing all code on the Windows sources? Or are you taking Mac sources into account, too?
2. What platform are you doing this work on?

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1. Yes, Windows sources.
2. Yes, but in a special way. If the porting goes as outlined in the main page of the website, then automatically the sources will be Mac OS X compatible.

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Originally written by CommonGenius.com:

InuYasha, I tried to go to the link in your signature, but it won't open (tries to download a file named "enano"?), and I can't find oboecross32 from the main site. Can you direct me to the appropriate link? I am interested in developing on BoE, on the Windows side. My impression is that most of the current development (what there is of it) is being done on the Mac side; but since presumably all of that work could be ported to Windows, I don't want to duplicate work that has already been done on the Mac.

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Originally written by The Ratt:

I have a question, are internal server errors the same as 500 errors? Because I have never got 500 errors, only internal server errors, in fact I got one just now.

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Originally written by *i:

Time and convenience. These boards exist as a means for the fans of Spiderweb Software to communicate; they are not, however, the primary purpose of the company; releasing software is and these boards exist primarily for the game forums.

At the time UBB was one of the better ones out there and far superior to the old Ikonboards. While yes, Jeff and Mariann could make a different set of forums, this is a time sink. Realistically, what does that gain them? Not a whole lot. The forums work 99% of the time and serve their intended purpose. The time investment to set up a new, more stable message board is not justified.

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Originally written by Miramor:

It would be nicer if the site had some decent bandwidth.

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Originally written by Thralni:

Oh my god, that bar at the bottom looks really identical like the dock of Mac OS 10.5, you know. This has kept me wondering for alonger time, bcause the Spaces" of OS 10.5 actually have been for a long while in Linux already. I wonder if this Linux dock was in Linux already before OS 10.5 was announced?

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Originally written by Andrea:

GF4 probably requires at least Windows 2000 because (and this is a guess) it probably needs a version of DirectX not supported on previous iterations of the operating system.

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I highly doubt this, since DirectX 9.0c is available for 98 and ME, and DirectX 10 is only available on Vista.

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Originally written by Celtic Minstrel:

I don't know whether this matters at all to you, but Khoth has a darcs repository for the Mac source.

The only reason I say this is that it might make sense to keep them both in the same type of repository.

Also, two Google code projects have been created – one is called oboe, the other blades-of-exile. If the creators of those projects were contacted, and you had a Google account, the source could be moved to their repository. (I think it's Subversion?)

These are just suggestions. Follow them or ignore them as you please.

I'm currently trying to get the Mac character editor to work, and making very little progress. Part of my problem is that, like you, I don't really understand all the API functions (in my case, the Carbon API).

It would probably be simpler (and messier in some sense) if the Mac version switched to a file system more like the Windows version, where each graphic is in a separate file. You could make it look neater though – on the Mac these files could probably be hidden inside a file package (a folder that is treated like a file); on Windows they could perhaps be zipped or something (this would require using zlib though, or something similar).

Maybe someone should do a comparison of the Mac and Windows source to determine which parts are identical.

It would be nice if this were to finally start to progress again. :)

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Originally written by Celtic Minstrel:

I wonder – is there anyone who has access to both a Mac and a Windows compiler? Because porting to SDL (and possibly, as someone suggested, wxWidgets?) is probably a good idea, but would ideally (I think) be done in parallel on the Mac and Windows sources.

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Originally written by Celtic Minstrel:

Feel free to redo it. Ormus has not read my message yet, so he either doesn't check his email often or has disabled email notification of private messages. There's not much more that can be done, really. :(

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Originally written by Arenax:

I'm ripping apart the source code in an attempt to port it to C#

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Please, no C#! This is originally a Macintosh game, and C# is basically a Windows programming language. It needs to run on both platforms.

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Originally written by Thomas Frost:

Is there any compiled registed version for windows? 16 bit will do

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Ormus had a Win32 release. Check out this thread.

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Originally written by Celtic Minstrel:

I just sent him a private message about this. If he hasn't been checking the forum recently, then hopefully he has opted to be notified by email upon recieving a PM. Really all we can do about this is wait, I think.

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Originally written by Celtic Minstrel:

Well, I decided to add it to the list in my first post. But I don't think OS integration is a priority here - the game uses a custom dialog engine, so the only titlebars will be OS dependent. (The game window and the map window titlebars). Although I've noticed that on Windows the dialogs also have titlebars.

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Originally written by Miramor:

Porting it all to wxWidgets would be the best way to go, I guess.

I'd be a bit weary of using both SDL and OpenAL though. I'm not speaking as a programmer here, so I could have the wrong idea, but use of both for sound (in one way or another) caused enormous problems for Vega Strike, with sound mixing not working and stuff.

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