[MacGLQuake] Anybody here?

[Nicholas Lamkins]

Man, I wish I knew how to code C. Should probably take a class one of these
days. Don't really have all that much time. Sigh.

Welp, I just wanted to let everyone know that I'm very interested in seeing
this port continued. I know of many people who would like the same.

Maybe add the modifications to the SourceForge effort?

Anyone else seeing the problem with white, invalid skins in TeamFortress and
other QW mods? (I think... I only play TF. Barely touch any other mods or
even QW DM.)

http://www.macfortress.net/

on 07/27/2000 12:15, pOx at pox@planetquake.com wrote:

> Is anyone is still hacking this puppy?
> 
> I've been going over the source for the last couple weeks and found a couple
> things that should boost framerates (dramatically for 3Dfx cards), as well
> as a couple fixes;
> 
> #1 - in 'gl_vidmac.c' around line 380:
> The window is offset by 1 pixel - Changing it to 0,0 will more than double
> FPS on 3Dfx cards (well, at least on my Voodoo3 it does) - I'm not sure if
> this will help other accelerators.
> 
> // create a window to draw into
> AuxWinHandle awh;
> if (windowed) {
> gWindowRect.top = 30; gWindowRect.left = 5;
> } else {
> gWindowRect.top = 0; gWindowRect.left = 0;// pOx
> }
> 
> #2 - in 'sys_mac.c' around line 970, in the main loop:
> I noticed the note in the HandleEvents routine and it does indeed help to
> skip events during rendering (extra 5-10fps on my system)
> I've got it set to;
> 
> if (cl.paused)
> HandleEvents();
> else
> FlushEvents(everyEvent,0);
> 
> But I'm not sure that it's necessary to handle events even when paused (just
> flush'em all the time)
> 
> #3 - in 'host_cmd.c' - search for 'Sys_FileClose' & 'Sys_FileOpenRead'
> I'm guessing save/load game was missed by whoever re-did the mac filesystem
> routines - Just change the above to 'Sys_fclose(f)' & 'Sys_fopen(f)' to fix
> some nasty crashes. (Should also get rid of the calls/vars that grab
> filehandles directly)
> 
> That's it - With the changes to sys_mac & gl_vidmac 'timedemo demo1' now
> runs at an average fps in the low 90's compared to mid 30's with
> MacGLQuake0.7 (again, this is probably a Voodoo thing, but other cards
> should see a little increase as well)
> 
> Frank Condello (aka 'pOx')
> --