The GLFFE Thread

potsmoke66

potsmoke66
at the risk that i repeat myself;
move close to departure cloud of prey when leaving the system, you will allways rematerialize close to it's arrival cloud, no big deal.
 

grasshopperfoto

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Hi guys i'm a Mac User , i've managed to get JJFFE running on my mac I really wanna get the GL version running .... I'm pretty technically so i'm gonna need a step by step guide ....

Before anyone starts a flame war on Mac .... I'm a photographer and its a tool. I also run WinBlows on it so if i have to run in windows i will ..i'd just rather not ......


Thanks

Guys

Grasshopper
 

Alien

Alien
Hi grasshopperfoto,
Welcome to the forum. Don't worry about getting any criticism about using a Mac, I'm sure many of us like Macs on here (I for one would love another Mac).

As a former iBook owner, I can tell you it is possible to run JJFFE on a Mac, as I have done it (through a Win emulator I think). I wish I could be more help, but I've not had a Mac since they started using Pentiums.

Alien.

EDIT - I just checked the index (see my sig) and there is a thread you might find useful:
http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1497
 
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Steve

Steve
grasshopperfoto said:
Hi guys i'm a Mac User , i've managed to get JJFFE running on my mac I really wanna get the GL version running .... I'm pretty technically so i'm gonna need a step by step guide ....
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I think there's some heavy-duty programming involved in converting GLFFE to run on a Mac. Not an easy task :(

grasshopperfoto said:
Before anyone starts a flame war on Mac .... I'm a photographer and its a tool. I also run WinBlows on it so if i have to run in windows i will ..i'd just rather not ....
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You're probably better off doing that, to be honest. Who knows, you could get FFED3D running as well, and you're gonna love that :smilie:
 

zmurf

zmurf
Run windows as a Virtual Machine under MacOS X... that way you dont have to restart the system to be able to play the game.

I do this in linux.

Here is a link to a good Virtual Machine manager:
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

just download the Mac version and follow the manual of how to create a Windows Virtual Machine. Preferably you install Windows XP (32 bit version) since that is where most things will work and you will have the best performance.
 
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DraQ

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boringnick said:
Isn't it a bit hypocritical to ask not to start a flame war and then doing it yourself ("WinBlows") in the next sentence?
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Well, no sane person loves windows...



...or macs, for that matter. :D

As for GLFFE, I consider it pretty obsolete. About everything it does is done better by vanilla JJFFE or Russian Mod.
 

gunbladelad

gunbladelad
DraQ said:
Well, no sane person loves windows...
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I certainally don't love windows, yet loads of people doubt my sanity, lol. remember, even loonballs don't like windows, but to run 99% of commercial games on a PC you kinda need it...

On a related note (kinda), without using the OpenGL versions, or DOSBox, what's the best way to get FE2 running properly on my ancient Win XP machine?

No PC I've ever had has liked OpenGL, for some reason, and DOSbox runs really [CENSORED] slowly, even when I play around with the emulation speed & frameskip.
 

DraQ

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gunbladelad said:
I certainally don't love windows, yet loads of people doubt my sanity, lol. remember, even loonballs don't like windows, but to run 99% of commercial games on a PC you kinda need it...

On a related note (kinda), without using the OpenGL versions, or DOSBox, what's the best way to get FE2 running properly on my ancient Win XP machine?
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Uh.... Amiga emulator?
:S
Or you can try GLFrontier, but use vanilla renderer instead of OpenGL one (why would you use anything other than vanilla anyway? OpenGL implemented in GLFrontier is pretty broken and fugly) - ctrl+e cycles.
 

zmurf

zmurf
turwhitt said:
There is literally no photography software on Windows!

Fact! :S
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There isn't? What makes a software count as a photography software? What photography software are there to OS X? I'm a developer and don't really know much at all about graphics software. I always thought that programs such as photoshop and gimp was photography software.

And according to other posts on this forum I must be insane. Cause I really like Windows 7... much more then I like OS X. I have always found OS X quite troublesome to use. I've done some development for OS X, and there is lots of funny things in the OS you have to reckon with when developing for OS X.

But then again.. my official stand point is that all modern operating systems are equally bad. No one is as good as I wish (and think) that they should be now days. Just take a look... start up a OS from late -80ths or early -90ths. It hasn't really happened anything the last 20 years...
 

Geraldine

Geraldine
zmurf said:
But then again.. my official stand point is that all modern operating systems are equally bad. No one is as good as I wish (and think) that they should be now days. Just take a look... start up a OS from late -80ths or early -90ths. It hasn't really happened anything the last 20 years...
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That's a good point Zmurf, I still love Amiga Workbench, even if it is very old now, it's still very easy to use. :smilie:

As for the OP, DraQ is correct, the best way I think to run Frontier (or Elite) on the Mac is to go for the Amiga Forever emulator, here is a link http://www.amigaforever.com/
 

Sir.Tj

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Sir.Tj
Workbench....what a OS! :D

Came on a single floppy disk and still able to hold its own against the current OS's.

Still have a 1200 myself along with a couple of 500's & 500+'s and a 600 tucked away somewhere.
 

Geraldine

Geraldine
T.j said:
Still have a 1200 myself along with a couple of 500's & 500+'s and a 600 tucked away somewhere.
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Why tucked away TJ? :S Dig them out and back into the daylight and use them as Jay Miner intended! :D Also, just got word from Amiga Kit,....my 4000 is now fully repaired and will be returning home soon, what a Christmas present!. :smilie: OS 3.9 at the ready! :D
Also @ Zmurf, thats one very nice 1200 you have there. Love the DvD drive and is that a Blizzard 1260 card I spy there?
 
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Sir.Tj

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Sir.Tj
Geraldine said:
Why tucked away TJ? :S Dig them out and back into the daylight and use them as Jay Miner intended! :D Also, just got word from Amiga Kit,....my 4000 is now fully repaired and will be returning home soon, what a Christmas present!. :smilie: OS 3.9 at the ready! :D
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Nicely tucked away as I don't have the time to do anything with them I'm afraid, reason being the 2 kids, fulltime job etc...etc keep me very busy :eek::eek::eek:

Good news on the 4000 though, what was wrong with it?
 

zmurf

zmurf
Geraldine said:
@ Zmurf, thats one very nice 1200 you have there. Love the DvD drive and is that a Blizzard 1260 card I spy there?
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Yepp... It is. B1260@50MHz and 128MB RAM. :)

I also have:
*A600, 6GB HD, 2MB RAM
*CD32+SX1, 8MB fastRAM, 8GB CF-HD.
*A4k, CS060-MK2, 128MB RAM, 80GB HD, DVD-RW, IDE ZIP-Drive, Picasso IV, Ariadne Ethernet 10Mbit, Prelude soundcard.
*µAmigaOne, 512MB RAM, 150GB HD, DVD-RW

(just had to brag a little... ;) )
 
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