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UT2004 schon bald fertig für Intel-Macs

• Olaf
• 14.06.2005 08:06 Uhr

In seinem .plan-file hat die Ein-Mann-Portierungs-Armee Ryan Gordon über seine Erlebnisse auf der letzten WWDC berichtet. Auch er war überrascht von Apples Ankündigung, in Zukunft Intel-Chips in kommender Hardware einzusetzen, zeigte sich aber zuversichtlich, was den Portierungsaufwand seiner Projekte angehe. So sei zum Beispiel die Emulationsumgebung "Rosetta" bei weitem nicht so schlecht wie angenommen. Noch besser; er habe bereits Dank der Hilfe eines Apple-Software-Ingenieurs eine Version von Unreal Tournament am Laufen: Unreal Tournament 2004: Runs. I had a little more difficulty with this than I anticipated; I knew exactly what to change to make it x86-friendly, but moving to gcc4 bit me in a few places, including one place where I stalled out for over 12 hours trying to coerce the compiler to not crash. Eventually, I got this resolved with the help of an Apple engineer who's name I didn't catch, but if I figure it out, I'm sending him a Christmas card this year. Probably about 300 lines of changes, counting the Karma physics libraries, since that needed a recompile too. Still, three days qualifies as a success story for this work, as far as I'm concerned. Even though the game is playable, this needs more work still...but the exact day Intel-Macs hit the retail stores, I fully expect to ship a patch to support these machines.

• Macsoft - Ut2k4 | Produktseite
• Ryan Gordons Weblog | Portierungs-OneMan-Show