Steve A Posted August 5, 2001 Share Posted August 5, 2001 Hi Does anyone know if it is possible to run Combat Mission under Classic mode in OS X? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schrullenhaft Posted August 5, 2001 Share Posted August 5, 2001 You may have to disable the 'Classic RAVE' extension and it may work. I believe that this may force 'software rendering'. The RAVE 'shim' available for OS X doesn't support (as a guess) the latest version of RAVE that CM is dependent on (1.6 or 1.7 ?). If you have the disk space, then a dual-boot setup with OS 9.x is probably your best bet. CMBO won't be re-written to support OS X. The next engine, CMII, to be started on after CMBB/CM2 will most likely use OpenGL, which is what is needed for full OS X compatibility. If Apple can update the Classic RAVE extension to fully support RAVE, then CMBO may work. But it is unlikely that this will happen anytime soon. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmead Posted August 5, 2001 Share Posted August 5, 2001 As far as I know you cannot run CMBO under X, although no one has tried the latest flavors, or at least none have reported it. I beleive you will have to run under 9.1, 9.2 may be another possibility though not many have it as its shipping only on the latest G4 boxes as I understand it. CMBO will likely never run in an X environment, CMII the new engine for this software, will be out in a little over two years is expected to use the Open GL API and should run fine. Apple has seen fit to not work on supporting Rave the old API to any great degree, and BTS has a very limited programming staff (1) and cannot afford to make changes to the engine core at this time. So there we are, unless some miracle occurs (Charles makes CM2 CMBB change over to OpenGL and still meet shipdate, or Apple wondrously improves support for old technology) we are unfortunately stuck in OS9.x land. Sorry not much help but thats the story. I will look around for MadMatts definitive statement from some months back when several others and myself were on the warpath about this subject. You can take comfort in the fact that this software was "made on a Mac" originally. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve A Posted August 6, 2001 Author Share Posted August 6, 2001 I was afraid you might say that. Looks like I'll have to keep rebooting into OS 9.1. Thanks for the speedy replies! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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