MAngband

YAY!! I Got a new mac G4 ibook for christmas, sux that i cant play Mang on  it but it rocks anyway

The memory and stuff are:
1.07Ghz cpu speed
L2 cache 512kb
768mb DDR SDRAM
37gb somethin on the harddrive
12in screen and some other stuff im  too stupid to care about

Congratulations! That sounds like a decent machine. Got good battery life?

Sure you can play MAngband on it! Just get the source code and compile it. OS/X is BSD UNIX with a nice user interface, after all. Notice the Terminal program. I don't know what modifications are needed to make MAngband work, but you should be able to just make a standard X11 client provided that the x11 development libraries and gcc and make are installed. From what I recall, MAngband was originally developed on BSD UNIX... am I close there?

about 31/2 hours battery life on a full charge
from what i can understgand above, ill try to get mang working, but i dont know what kind, if any success i'll have

would the XCode tools that come with OS 10.3 have these installed with them?

Well, I can't answer that one for you, but I can tell you how to find out in two easy steps.

1) Open a terminal.

2) Type "gcc -v".

If it outputs a version, then you have gcc. Then you can try "make" from a folder with no "Makefile" and if it says something about no target, then you've got make. Those are the tools you need!

Then you need to make sure you have the proper includes and libraries for whatever interface you build, and that's an exercise I'll leave up to you.

I play on my G3 Powerbook all the time. Open up X11 and make mangband from the xterm there. Then run it from the top mangband directory. I can't remember if I had to tweak anything but if you post problems I'll try and remember my way through.

Congrats on the ibook!

edit: Make sure and get gcc etc from the Developer Tools package.

Xtools does not come with the standard 10.3.x OS X build, you need to register here:

http://developer.apple.com/

Then download Xtools 1.5 this is totally free, it's about a 350mb download, and includes gcc v3.3 if I remember correctly.

I have in the past had a quick go at compiling the client for OS X, the last time I seem to remember it compiled fine without issue, but it would only run the main console window.....however I did not spend any more time in playing with the compile of the client to correct this. If anyone has tips on the full compile feel free to post them, or how they got full window support working that would mean I can also play on my Mac

Cheers


Xbytez

my mac (OS 10.3.1) came with an Xtools installer, i dont know what build but it was there