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  1. Pity. To be quite frank with you, you are ignorant. If you'd only took a moment to think about the situation and read up on the matter instead of spilling your undiluted gall over Jeff's business practices, you'd realize there are no Android ports for Spiderweb games just to prevent 'crappy distribution'. Sigh. Millenials and their smartphones ...
  2. One tip: do not format your harddisk in APFS; you're going to have issues with older programs. Choose HFS+ (MacOS Extended (Journaled)) instead.
  3. In addition to Ess-Eschas' comment; Blxz, honestly, I don't think we'll see an Android port of a Spiderweb game in the near future, if at all. Jeff has had a bad experience with outsourcing Android ports and the two Kickstarters didn't even get near the Android port stretch goal. On top of that, Avadon 1 for Android apparently didn't make alot of money and had issues. Basically, if you want to play Spiderweb games on Mobile, your best bet is to buy an iPad. In case you didn't know, all Spiderweb games from Avernum 6 and onward have iPad ports.
  4. No self-respecting programmer develops for Android.
  5. ladyonthemoon, instead of using the convoluted (and horribly inefficient) Unity Engine, why don't you use Win32, with DXGI and D3D as the rendering backend? Depending on your experience in computer programming, getting started with anything DirectX may seem daunting at first, but once you've got everything set up, it is pretty easy to use. If you just need to render 2-dimensional graphics, you can use the much simpler (but less powerful) Direct2D instead. Considering your post, I assume you have no experience with DirectX; forgive me if I'm mistaken. If you're interested in Jeff's code, you could take a look at the Blades of Exile source code. A little warning: this code was written early in Jeff's career and it ... it shows. The code is also outdated and cannot compile out-of-box on any modern operating system. However, the community has made an effort to rewrite Blades of Exile for modern computers. For what it's worth, Jeff has also written an article on writing more readable code.
  6. What does run Catalina? Long live Mac OS Cataclysm.
  7. I sleep all night and program all day; which is what I would do too before the Coronavirus came about.
  8. I can confirm that all* Spiderweb Software games will work on Mac OS High Sierra and Mojave. However, the older games will not launch when you double-click on the application, as you would normally do to launch a program on Mac OS. You'll have to launch the executable module located inside the application bundle. Do do so, right-click on 'Geneforge v1.2.app' and select 'Show package contents'. Navigate to 'Contents/MacOS'. Then, double-click on 'Geneforge Univ'. A terminal window will show up and Geneforge should launch correctly. If you don't want do to this every time you would like to play Geneforge, you can create a shell script with the following code: #!/bin/bash DIR=$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" && pwd ) cd "${DIR}"/Geneforge\ v1.2.app/Contents/MacOS open Geneforge\ Univ Place the shell script inside the 'Geneforge v1.2 ƒ' folder and double-clicking on the script will launch Geneforge for you. Some new 'features' introduced with Apple's new filesystem 'APFS' cause alot of issues for many older programs, not just Geneforge. A workaround is to have a partition with the good old HFS+ filesystem (choose 'Mac OS extended (Journaled)' as the 'Structure' in Disk Utility) and run your programs from that partition. If reformatting your harddisk is not an option for you, you can also create an empty read/write disk image in Disk Utility with 'Mac OS extended (Journaled)' as Structure on your current system. Put Geneforge inside that disk image, run it from that disk image, and Geneforge will run on Mac OS 10.13/10.14 just as it did on 10.9 without any issues whatsoever. * Any Spiderweb game that can natively run on an Intel Mac.
  9. Thanks for the playthrough, Chessrook. I really don't like Queen's Wish, but I still wanted to know how the story would go. Instead of slogging through the game myself, I watched your playthrough, the whole thing until the end.
  10. I'm glad he is. I really hope none of Queen's Wish's changes will make it into Geneforge.
  11. There is only so much that can be discussed about Spiderweb games. I'm afraid that most topics have already been handled. On the other hand, I understand that the lionshare of content on these forums was posted by a tightly-knit community basically going about silly things, with some Blades discussions mixed in. The big days of the Blades games are past - as you stated - and the core of the Spiderweb community has mostly moved on. This is all to be expected really; the issue is that too few new people are flowing in to keep the community alive. As to "being stuck in the past", like you, I also prefer the older Spiderweb games, especially the early 2000's Avernum remakes. My field is computer science & software engineering and I really don't like the newer technologies that are taking the lead. In my free time I write CLI programs and do m68k assembler on my QL-emulator. But that doesn't make me feel stuck in the past, retro computing is just what I enjoy. My disdain for the newer programming languages doesn't make me dislike computer programming all together, and my preference for retro computing doesn't prohibit me from excelling at new and upcoming technologies. I think it's a stretch to say that you're locked up in the past because you prefer the old Spiderweb games and can't find interest in playing the recent Spiderweb games. In fact, I believe many on these forums prefer the early Spiderweb games. You stated: "And so, if I feel (key word there) like no innovation is taking place, why would I hang around?". Am I misunderstanding or is innovation of big importance to you? I'm fine with innovation, as long as it doesn't escalate into change just for the sake of change. Too many people seem to think that innovation is an infinite given. At some point, the product is done and futher innovation will actually be a detriment or simply impossible. Also, innovation is a double-edged sword: sometimes things change for the better, and sometimes for the worse. Not everyone will always like every change, and Jeff is well aware of that, since he has stated this numerous times. I wouldn't lose hope if I were you. Who knows what the future will bring? If innovation is what you seek, I would definitly give Queen's Wish a try. About building a community, I think a fabricated community has very little chance of succeeding. Usually, a community forms around a couple of key people getting along well, with more people tagging in. When those key people lose interest or simply move on, the community usually fades, as is the case with the Spiderweb forums.
  12. CtrlAltDel, have you tried Fallout 1 and 2? I have a suspicion you might like those games.
  13. Running Mac OS, under emulation or not, on a Windows machine is illegal. It's also quite a hassle, to say the least. On top of that, you won't get Mac OS running without third-party software. Illegal third-party software. I would be very suprised if that's true. I can't find any downloads for MacOS 7 from Apple though. Also, Mac OS 'Rock Solid' 7, was by far the worst edition of Mac OS classic. I'd go for System 9 if you want to emulate Mac OS classic per sé. This is false. The guides for both emulators you mentioned state clearly that extra software is required. The ROM file is one such example, and I'm afraid that will be hard to come by. Anyhow, I don't have many issues getting old games working on Windows 10. Exile III runs fine on my machine and I found a post from someone who claims to have Exile III running on their Windows machine as well. (http://spiderwebforums.ipbhost.com/topic/22284-windows-10-and-exile-3). That other game I mentioned, Future Cop L.A.P.D., is a similar situation; some people get it running, and some don't. I would very much like to hear from others who can run old, 16-bit era games on Windows 10 without much ado. I hope to find out exactly what settings and software packages are required to run old games on 64-bit versions of Windows 10.
  14. A common issue. Try setting the graphics controller to vboxsvga. If you still get whitescreens, try vboxvga. Turning off both 2D and 3D acceleration might also help.
  15. Great! What surprises me is that Windows messages you that the game can't run on your PC. I only get that message when I try to run incompatible installers, but both Future Cop and Exile III just crashed on me when I tried to launch the executables without the required compatibility settings. I must admit I'm using a PC "modified" for programming; it's likely I have certain settings or software packages installed that are required to play both games on Windows 10.
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