Macintosh Help

Bretter · Post by **Bretter** » Fri Dec 20, 2002 3:08 pm

What applications are available to macintosh users?

SkiJunkie · Post by **SkiJunkie** » Fri Dec 20, 2002 3:55 pm

I've heard from at least 2 people, maybe 3 that use my game on the mac. I think the hardest part is finding Sun's Java Runtime Engine for the mac. You can find my game on the links below. If you are looking for help on the mac go to the forums at http://fumbll.no-ip.org. There is a guy posting help for the mac. The same guy has a website at
http://www.witwat.net/luke/javabbowl/

Hope this helps.

BadMrMojo · Post by **BadMrMojo** » Fri Dec 20, 2002 9:12 pm

Bretter wrote:What applications are available to macintosh users?

Woohoo, another one!
Ok, here's the quick run down. If you're using OS 9, I believe you're out of luck. JavaBBowl uses Java II and OS 9 never got a JRE for it, so it won't work. Given that Apple has pronounced OS 9 dead (then alive again, but only til June), they probably aren't going to work too hard on making one either.

The good news is that JRE 1.3.1 comes default in OS 10.x. I'm using Ski's app at both work and home on 10.1.5 and 10.2.2 respectively. Works like a charm, usually. As far as other applications go, I'm at a bit of a loss myself. I tried TowBowl Tactics but had no luck and most PBEM clients come as .exe's only.

Happy Hunting.

Luke

Bretter · Post by **Bretter** » Fri Dec 20, 2002 9:41 pm

Has anyone tried to run the client software using VirtualPC?

BadMrMojo · Post by **BadMrMojo** » Sat Dec 21, 2002 8:11 am

Bretter wrote:Has anyone tried to run the client software using VirtualPC?

I haven't tried, as all I have VPC set up for is old DOS games (I just can't live without old Microprose stuff), but it should run well enough on a decent mac. You are emulating hardware to run a virtual machine, which is kinda like emulating 2 systems. If you consider your VPC to be a 300 mHz Pentium II, then it'd probably be a bit sluggish, but otherwise fine. The requirements are pretty low.

What machine/os/vpc version do you have?

bubb · Post by **bubb** » Tue Dec 02, 2003 9:52 pm

I doubt that if it worked you would find any performance lag at all. The PBeM Client uses virtually no resources.

I ran it on a NT4 400Mhz laptop and ran like a champ.

I would be curious to know if it even works cause I would go out and buy VPC yesterday if I knew BB worked on it. That is just about all I use my XP box for anymore

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