Testers wanted for openMSX Mac OS X binary

Door mth

Champion (505)

30-01-2006, 01:25

If you have a Mac, please test this:
openmsx-2006-01-29-ppc-bin.dmg

Please note:

this package contains the openMSX CVS version, but if the way it is packaged is OK, I'll create an official binary of openMSX 0.6.0
only OS X 10.3 and later are supported
only PPC CPUs are supported

If you have a Mac, please test this:
openmsx-2006-01-29-ppc-bin.dmg

Please note:

this package contains the openMSX CVS version, but if the way it is packaged is OK, I'll create an official binary of openMSX 0.6.0
only OS X 10.3 and later are supported
only PPC CPUs are supported
the file types "cas", "dsk" and "rom" are registered with the Finder and you can launch them from the Finder; however launching a second file when openMSX is still open does not work

After you tested it, please tell me about it, if it was a success or if it was a failure. If you encounter problems or things that could be done nicer, tell me about them.

Many thanks to BouKiCHi for helping me create this binary package.

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Van msxgamesbox

Champion (397)

30-01-2006, 12:47

Cool, I'll give it a try tonight!

Van jr

Champion (377)

30-01-2006, 19:00

Hmmm... it doesn't find my system ROM files but then again I don't know where it's trying to look for those... only from the share folder within the app package?

Van RamonMSX

Expert (125)

30-01-2006, 19:48

It works great on my iMac. Very convenient use of ROM images. Nice hi-res icon as well

Van Manuel

Ascended (18695)

30-01-2006, 21:19

jr - probably also from /home/jr/.openMSX/share/systemroms (but mth may correct me if I'm wrong).

Van mth

Champion (505)

31-01-2006, 03:00

manuel: Almost correct, but "~" does not expand to "/home/<username>" on OS X, but to "/Users/<username>" instead.

The best location to put system ROMs is "~/.openMSX/share/systemroms", because then they will also be picked up by newer versions of openMSX. You can just put all the ROM files in the "systemroms" directory without a need for subdirectories or special names, since openMSX will find the right ROMs using their SHA1 checksum.

Thanks to everyone for testing! The only problems I heard were "how to do this?", so I wrote a README file which answers some questions users are likely to have after installing. I think I'll be able to release an official binary of openMSX 0.6.0 in a few of days. If you find any problems in the mean time, tell me and I'll try to fix them.

Van jr

Champion (377)

31-01-2006, 07:15

ok... I'm using a different location because I don't want to store gigs of data under my home dir -- old habit, I guess I should think about changing things. Of course also putting a symlink under ~/.openMSX/share to the correct place would probably do it.

Anyway, it's nice to have a ready made binary for Mac too, although I think I'll keep on using my custom built G5 optimized version for the time being ;-) A native Mac GUI for launching the emu and managing settings would be a nice improvement, I don't like using X. Perhaps I'll done one myself one of these days ;-)

Van Manuel

Ascended (18695)

31-01-2006, 09:00

jr - You're of course free to make your own launcher, but even better would be if you could join us in building the next generation of openMSX GUI: the Qt version of Catapult. We are in a (software) design phase right now, see the openmsx-devel mailinglist. Your input is most welcome! So, after the design, we want to implement a GUI in Qt, which should compile without any changes or hassle on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, all looking quite native.

mth: I was doubting whether to use ~ or not. And I made the wrong decision... Ah well, learned something again.

Van [D-Tail]

Ascended (8258)

31-01-2006, 09:08

manuel - a few days ago we had a discussion about the lay-out of Catapult on GNOME/GTK+. Catapult has the skin of X, instead of GNOME. Was it because of the same reason, or is there a way to adapt its skin to let it nicely integrate with GNOME?

Van Manuel

Ascended (18695)

31-01-2006, 12:55

[D-Tail] - on my system Catapult just takes over the theme of GNOME. You need wxWidgets libraries that are linked to GTK2 for this, I think. The Debian wxWidgets 2.6 ones apparently are. When I used wxWidgets 2.4, this was not the case.

wxWidgets for Mac also shows a native Mac UI, but it doesn't work correctly. To us it just seemed that wxMac is buggy. I think jr compiled it with the normal X libraries on Mac or so, to get a working but non-native UI. It has nothing to do with your problem.

Van boukichi

Resident (33)

31-01-2006, 15:37

jr - there is an easy way to recognize it without putting into home,
that's just move share directory in the app to the same directory with the app.
like this,
hoge/openMSX.app/share -> hoge/share

you can do it with either "open app package" in the context menu or mv command in terminal.