SS On Mac

[rootbear75]

Tbh i think more time should be spent looking into this issue. I know lynx got it KIND OF working, but i cant find the way he did it. I have a friend who would play if it were mac compatible.

 

[9:42:39 PM] rootbear75: have u heard of a game called continuum?

[9:43:25 PM] rootbear75: ?

[9:43:53 PM] Insane54 (Aaron): no

[9:44:05 PM] rootbear75: http://www.getcontinuum.com/

[9:46:34 PM] Insane54 (Aaron): windows

[9:46:38 PM] rootbear75: oh right

[9:46:40 PM] rootbear75: hold on

[9:46:41 PM] Insane54 (Aaron): or winblows more like

[9:46:44 PM] rootbear75: they made a mac port with Wine

[9:46:47 PM] rootbear75: well

[9:46:51 PM] rootbear75: got one kind of working

[9:47:16 PM] rootbear75: if u have linux u can play

[9:48:30 PM] rootbear75: http://www.ssforum.net/index.php?showtopic=23975

[9:48:36 PM] rootbear75: for linux

[9:49:19 PM] rootbear75: dont u have dualboot?

[9:49:22 PM] rootbear75: or vmware?

[9:49:58 PM] Insane54 (Aaron): parallels

[9:50:01 PM] Insane54 (Aaron): ubuntu

[9:50:04 PM] rootbear75: use it

[9:50:06 PM] rootbear75: for a bit

[9:50:17 PM] rootbear75: or do you not have skype or anything else like that on it

[9:51:47 PM] rootbear75: k i cant for the life of me find how he did it

[9:52:09 PM] rootbear75: here's a thought

[9:52:14 PM] rootbear75: would you play it if you could?

[9:53:17 PM] Insane54 (Aaron): hm maybe

[9:54:28 PM] rootbear75: what do you think of it from that

[9:55:21 PM] Insane54 (Aaron): it looks pretty decent actually

[9:55:22 PM] Insane54 (Aaron): looks fun

[MikeTheNose]

Subspace I tell ya, S.U.B.S.P.A.C.E.!

[»Xog]

here's a video of lynx, who you mentioned, doing everything. in the description is a link to the steps as well if you can't follow along

 

 

also, the comments have a lot of solutions

Edited February 4, 2010 by Xog

[»Lynx]

I've said I'd be happy to re-write the walk troughs to put them on GetContinuum.com - but the admins of the site (not sure who) are no longer active. If your friend has any issues with the walk trhoughs I've made on my site (they're not great) then tell him to make a post under feedback and support here.

[L.C.]

Another one rides the bus!

[Dr Brain]

I gave Continuum a try on Sun's free version of VirtualBox, with the DirectX extensions enabled, and it works quite acceptably. I was able to get a FPS of between 120 and 150 while flying around and shooting in Hyperspace. That's slightly less than I get running Continuum on Wine, but it's a helluva lot easier to setup with VirtualBox than Wine.

 

I was running this on Gentoo Linux, but presumably the same thing could be done on a Mac.

[»Xog]

Another one rides the bus!

 

 

Another one bites the dust*

 

[»Lynx]

I gave Continuum a try on Sun's free version of VirtualBox, with the DirectX extensions enabled, and it works quite acceptably. I was able to get a FPS of between 120 and 150 while flying around and shooting in Hyperspace. That's slightly less than I get running Continuum on Wine, but it's a helluva lot easier to setup with VirtualBox than Wine.

 

I was running this on Gentoo Linux, but presumably the same thing could be done on a Mac.

 

The same thing can be done with either Parallels/Virtual Box or whatever your favorite flavor of virtual machine is.

 

The wine setup is very easy too, but perhaps not so easy for your average mac user. It's just a matter of downloading Mac Ports (an OS X package manager), downloading a few packages then doing the usual steps of patching and compiling wine. It doesn't run as well on OS X as it does on Linux though (because X-Code 3.x has issues compiling 8/16-bit code).

[rootbear75]

I've said I'd be happy to re-write the walk troughs to put them on GetContinuum.com - but the admins of the site (not sure who) are no longer active. If your friend has any issues with the walk trhoughs I've made on my site (they're not great) then tell him to make a post under feedback and support here.

 

He's mostly worried about the use of the sudo.

 

[2/3/2010 11:19:28 PM] rootbear75: dude

[2/3/2010 11:19:29 PM] rootbear75: found it

[2/3/2010 11:19:37 PM] rootbear75:

[2/3/2010 11:20:57 PM] rootbear75: http://krslynx.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=51&Itemid=59

[2/3/2010 11:21:13 PM] Insane54 (Aaron): hmmmmm

[2/3/2010 11:21:17 PM] Insane54 (Aaron): im looking at it

[2/3/2010 11:21:27 PM] rootbear75: dude if you get a chance let me know

[2/3/2010 11:21:32 PM] rootbear75: i gotta get off in about 40 min s0o

[2/3/2010 11:21:38 PM] rootbear75: ill be here most of the day tomorrow

[2/3/2010 11:21:52 PM] Insane54 (Aaron): anything involving sudo means you need to be ridiculously careful with it

[2/3/2010 11:21:58 PM] rootbear75: trust me

[2/3/2010 11:22:03 PM] rootbear75: follow him step by step

[2/3/2010 11:22:08 PM] Insane54 (Aaron): sudo del *

[2/3/2010 11:22:10 PM] rootbear75: it took him a WHILE

[2/3/2010 11:22:11 PM] Insane54 (Aaron): deletes everything

[2/3/2010 11:22:22 PM] rootbear75: dont type DEL after SUDO

[2/3/2010 11:22:24 PM] rootbear75: durh

[2/3/2010 11:22:27 PM] Insane54 (Aaron): lol

[2/3/2010 11:22:35 PM] rootbear75: only sudo i see is

[2/3/2010 11:22:35 PM] rootbear75: $ sudo port install bison ftgl libpng xrender fontconfig freetype xorg

[2/3/2010 11:22:38 PM] Insane54 (Aaron): well that's just an example

[2/3/2010 11:23:23 PM] Insane54 (Aaron): anything involving sudo I never will just copy and paste and assume he knows what he's doing

[2/3/2010 11:23:45 PM] rootbear75: i realize that

[2/3/2010 11:23:52 PM] rootbear75: but im giving you my word as a friend

[2/3/2010 11:24:02 PM] rootbear75: this guy knows what he's doing

[2/3/2010 11:24:15 PM] rootbear75: of the last 3 years trying to find a way to get continuum/subspace to work on a mac

[2/3/2010 11:24:22 PM] Insane54 (Aaron): still doesn't mean anything to me though

[2/3/2010 11:24:24 PM] rootbear75: it took him a good deal of time

[2/3/2010 11:24:26 PM] rootbear75: i know

[2/3/2010 11:24:28 PM] Insane54 (Aaron): for example, iTunes 4.0.1 I think it was

[2/3/2010 11:24:40 PM] Insane54 (Aaron): had a typo that in certain cases wiped entire user folders

[2/3/2010 11:24:48 PM] rootbear75: thats just retarded

[2/3/2010 11:24:58 PM] rootbear75: you can read what your typing in before you hit enter

[2/3/2010 11:25:13 PM] Insane54 (Aaron): basic typo

[2/3/2010 11:25:17 PM] Insane54 (Aaron): not easy to notice

[2/3/2010 11:25:28 PM] rootbear75: link me to where it was noticed

[2/3/2010 11:27:34 PM] Insane54 (Aaron): trying to find the one LOL

[2/3/2010 11:27:37 PM] Insane54 (Aaron): I think it was 4

[2/3/2010 11:27:39 PM] rootbear75: want me to link you to this guy? you can talk to him if you want

[2/3/2010 11:28:14 PM] Insane54 (Aaron): ...it doesn't matter. I don't mess with my system settings, ever, until I go through every step personally

[2/3/2010 11:28:20 PM] rootbear75: well

[2/3/2010 11:28:26 PM] rootbear75: you have the steps laying out there

[2/3/2010 11:28:33 PM] rootbear75: let me know if you do it k?

[2/3/2010 11:28:39 PM] Insane54 (Aaron): that i shall

[2/3/2010 11:29:53 PM] rootbear75: not to long ago either

[2/3/2010 11:29:54 PM] rootbear75: Last Updated on Tuesday, 08 December 2009 08:00

 

Now the 3 years bit, im not sure if thats right, but i know it was a while...

[»Lynx]

It took me a while at first as I was using Darwine - which is unsupported. I had to do a lot of external code for even the menu to run but running it through standard Wine took me a couple hours to get running smoothly.

 

Anywho, I'll explain that sudo step:

 

$ sudo port install bison ftgl libpng xrender fontconfig freetype xorg

 

port install refers to Mac Ports, which is a package manager for OS X, similar to aptitude (apt-get) on Debian, pacman on Arch or RPM on RedHat. All of the above will require sudo, as the files database needs to be unlocked (which is outside of the normal user permission level), and various system files will need to be written to etcetera.

 

Click any of the following for more information about what you're installing. You can take my word for it that none of the below will compromise your system or any of your files, and I've not had any complaints in the 50 or so e-mails that I've replied to regarding Continuum on OS X via Wine. That doesn't include the youtube responses, and the in-game help I've provided.

 

Bison

FTGL

libpng

XRender

fontconfig

freetype

XOrg

 

If he's still unsure, I am also available on MSN: krslynx gmail or AIM: krslynx