Croquet on mac os-9

David A. Smith davidasmith at bellsouth.net
Sun Nov 17 15:37:33 UTC 2002


We did discover some bugs in the Mac OGL drivers which Andreas has created 
a workaround for.

David



At 02:57 AM 11/17/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>The first 6 lucky mac os-9 users that email me get a VM and FFI plugin
>& change set that makes Croquet work on os-9.
>
>The change set introduces a GLXMacOS9 class that calls the os 9 version
>of open GL. Now I'll admit there are a few funky artifacts on the
>screen, however I suspect they might be related to assuming all the
>calls are to say OpenGLLibrary versus openGLUtility for example, or
>maybe there's a bug in the os-9 FFI interface, or maybe a hidden check
>for MAC OS assumes too much and attempts to find the os-x version of
>some library.
>
>However getting a workable croquet experience under os-9 is the first
>step in diagnostics and I look forward to people finding and zapping
>those bugs.
>
>I'll look at bundling up a full 3.4.0b1 VM sunday, or monday depending
>on the reports I get.
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