benpark Posted April 30, 2002 Share Posted April 30, 2002 Will CMBB be released on a Mac and PC friendly disk, as CMBO was? For those of us with both (home/ work), it is a great thing (just a hassle shuttling all the mods back and forth on) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schrullenhaft Posted May 1, 2002 Share Posted May 1, 2002 I'm guessing that this time around the CDs for each platform will have to be different rather than combined onto one CD. There will be far more textures and sounds than there was with CMBO that both versions probably won't fit on the same disc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpazManOught Posted May 1, 2002 Share Posted May 1, 2002 I understand that CMBO only takes up about 300Mb of the disk and this was with a mixture of BMP's and Mac resource files. If CMBB uses only BMP's then there may be enough room on one CD for both versions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rune Posted May 1, 2002 Share Posted May 1, 2002 Listen to Schrullenhaft. Much more bmps and sounds. Rune Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schrullenhaft Posted May 1, 2002 Share Posted May 1, 2002 This may be possible if the CD is setup in the ISO-9660 format. But I'm not familiar with the exact drawbacks of that format (other than filenaming limitations). On the CMBO CD I believe the disk is setup with two different 'partitions' (not an accurate term for a CD, but it's the closest thing that comes to mind at the moment). The PC will only see the PC-related files, while the Mac will see the Mac-related files. Together these two 'partitions' take up almost all of the available 650Mb on the CD. My brain is a bit fuzzy on the differences between the encoding of files for each platform (like Mac files requiring 'resource forks'), but I'd guess that this may lead to some problems with putting both versions on the same CD, despite the large pool of common textures and sounds. I don't know BTS's exact plans on this and maybe it has yet to be completely decided, but I wouldn't be surprised if you had to specify which platform you want to play on with CMBB. [ April 30, 2002, 09:47 PM: Message edited by: Schrullenhaft ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
russellmz Posted May 1, 2002 Share Posted May 1, 2002 Originally posted by benpark: Will CMBB be released on a Mac and PC friendly disk, as CMBO was? For those of us with both (home/ work), it is a great thing (just a hassle shuttling all the mods back and forth on)i'm pretty sure the bts team said that there will be a separate mac and pc disc due to space. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Beman Posted May 1, 2002 Share Posted May 1, 2002 Wow, Schrullenhaft admits to being a bit fuzzy on something technical. I never thought I'd see that. Left-handed compliment there, Schrull. I've just gotten so used to your tech advice. DjB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyD Posted May 1, 2002 Share Posted May 1, 2002 I believe CMBO's being sold pc-only over the counter in Britain because of issues with the distributor's copy protection software (or some-such problem). If they stop doing dual-use CDs for CMBB (and that's a BIG if), the copy protection issue might be as big a factor as the disk space issue. Maybe all pc disks will be copy protected one way, and all mac disks protected another? Just speculating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karch Posted May 1, 2002 Share Posted May 1, 2002 If CMBB were to use the same BMPs and WAV sound files for Mac and Windows there is an option when making Mac/Win hybrid disks to share data.... Using TOAST CD burning application, The data on the Windows portion of the CD... if it were BMPs or WAVs would be shared across both platforms. If it would save BTS CD printing money, PLEASE let me know. I'd be happy to show them how to share data on the same CD. I've used it for cross platform database installations. Scott Karch scott@karchfamily.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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