ANN iGame3D's Dead Game on MacOSX

[Klaus Major]

Hi Bill,

>> Hi Bill and all,
>> i cannot get this game started???
>> Anyone else experienced this?
>> I doubleclick and see the short zoom effect, but that was all... :-(
>> OS X 10.3.6, i expereinced this phenomenon with one or two (non rev)
>> apps, too...
>>
>> Any hints?
>> Regards
>> Klaus Major
>> klaus at major-k.de
>> http://www.major-k.de
>>
> Originally posted by the unsleeping game beast:
> "Our email is available in the read me file, if you have any problems
> please contact us with as detailed system specs as you can provide.
> ATI video cards, on random machines seem to be the only problems we've
> encountered."
>
> Without knowing more about your system specs we will never get this 
> thing fixed.
> Do you have dual monitors by any chance, what resolution are you 
> running, do you have a
> !@&%*#'n ATI Card? These are things we need to know. (Don't feel bad, 
> only a girl from pixar sent us system specs with a bug report)
>
> The game will probably work if you change the resolution of your 
> monitor, lower, before trying.
> We may force monitors to do that in the future, something I don't 
> enjoy doing because games
> that pull that stunt leave the monitor settings all screwed up. On 
> lapttops and flat screens
> its no big deal they only like 5 settings tops, but for CRT's you can 
> lose 2 inches of screen
> just from playing a game that switches resolution on you.
>
> http://www.igame3d.com/DeadDays1.2.1.zip
> This is a debug version,with a different pixel format,  it will output 
> some text to your system console if
> it fails to start up properly. Please send us that text and your 
> system specifics.
>
> In a test on a Radeon 9800 1.8Ghz Mac yesterday the text feedback I 
> got was, the game
> couldn't find the directory it was in....how weird is that?
> No problem on a G3 350, dual 450 G4, G4 iBook 900 something, emac 
> 1Ghz, imac Dv 400 (at low resolution).
>
> Good luck. Thanks for trying.

Thank you very much, will do that, of course...

Thanks to DSL, i downloaded the "debug" version immedaitely while 
writing
this mail and THAT one starts up and plays OK with my setup and (high) 
resolution ...?

Mac G4, 1 GHZ (Sonnet upgrade card)
1 GB RAM
!@&%*# ATI RADEON 9000 Mac edition :-)
1 TFT monitor
1600*1200 pixel
32 bit color depth

> Mr Bill

Regards

Klaus Major
klaus at major-k.de
http://www.major-k.de