Mac Version?

Discussion in 'Clockwork Empires General' started by berkstin, Aug 13, 2015.

  1. berkstin

    berkstin Member

    Any estimate as to when I should check back for the Mac version of A42? Thx
     
  2. Mikel

    Mikel Waiting On Paperwork From The Ministry. Forever.

    They did say a couple of days in the blog post. I am also hoping for a miraculously faster result. Reconstructing a development system can be an arduous task depending on where the hardware failure occurred.
     
  3. Nicholas

    Nicholas Technology Director Staff Member

    (The hard drive. Naturally.)
     
  4. Mikel

    Mikel Waiting On Paperwork From The Ministry. Forever.

    Gods no... backups, or do you have to manually rebuild your development tree and configuration management?
     
  5. Mikel

    Mikel Waiting On Paperwork From The Ministry. Forever.

    Hopefully you got an SSD for a replacement drive.... eliminate those pesky moving parts to prolong the life of the system.
     
  6. berkstin

    berkstin Member

    Ouch. I just had to replace the power supply in my iMac, but before I figured out that's what was causing the sudden unexplained power-offs I tried to reinstall the OS and, of course, it shut down halfway through the process and fried my Fusion drive. Luckily the Apple Store was able to fix it and double-luckily I had a day-old Time Machine backup to go to...

    ANYWAY.... I feel your pain.
     
  7. berkstin

    berkstin Member

    bump...
     
  8. Nicholas

    Nicholas Technology Director Staff Member

    We are waiting for a Genius.
     
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  9. berkstin

    berkstin Member

    Aren't we all?
     
  10. Tikigod

    Tikigod Member

    The idea of using a SSD for storing a local copy of the dev-repo makes me shudder.
     
    Last edited: Aug 14, 2015
  11. Mikel

    Mikel Waiting On Paperwork From The Ministry. Forever.

    Luddite.
     
  12. Tikigod

    Tikigod Member

    Anyway, lesson here is don't use Apple.

    Don't encourage others to use Apple by feeding their significantly erroneous life choice with interesting games.

    In fact do the complete opposite and intentionally develop bad Mac builds of otherwise interesting games to encourage misguided individuals to re-evaluate their platform of choice and find something that doesn't involve feeding the Apple cultural monster.

    :)
     
  13. Mikel

    Mikel Waiting On Paperwork From The Ministry. Forever.

    :mad: Mikel now considers Tikigod an enemy.
     
    Last edited: Aug 15, 2015
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  14. Mikel

    Mikel Waiting On Paperwork From The Ministry. Forever.

    Nicholas,

    I want you to do me a favor. Go home this weekend. In case you were going to try and get the OS X version out, let it wait until Monday. You work too hard.
     
  15. berkstin

    berkstin Member

    bump...
     
  16. Nicholas

    Nicholas Technology Director Staff Member

    Got the Mac back from the shop this morning, but now we have to get it set up and working again. This could take a bit.
     
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  17. Mikel

    Mikel Waiting On Paperwork From The Ministry. Forever.

    And there was much rejoicing.

    PS. Please don't make us eat Sir Robin's minstrels.
     
  18. Mikel

    Mikel Waiting On Paperwork From The Ministry. Forever.

    Are 41E save files compatible with 42?
     
  19. Mikel

    Mikel Waiting On Paperwork From The Ministry. Forever.

    I am sensing that this operation is going to require more time than is available in one work day.
     
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  20. berkstin

    berkstin Member

    Yeah, if they're loading from a time machine backup (which is ostensibly the easiest way) it can still take 24 hours for a 1 TB drive...