Oolite Bulletins

I have been debating between an Ubuntu machine and a Mac. At this point I am pretty sure I am buying an imac with Leopard.

Has anyone had any problems running the current version of Oolite on Leopard?

Any idea how it will perform on a 2.0 ghz imac?

Thanks

Chad

it runs fin on my macbook pro 2.33 with 2gb ram, and ran fine on the old one 2.16ghz with 1gb ram.

Both on tiger and leopard.

On a 2GHz MacBook Pro (Leopard Tiger, stupid me! ) with 512MB Ram the framerate rarely drops below 99.

So you should just be fine.

_________________
The Story — The Career — The OXPs

Oolite on a 2.4 GHz iMac performs admirably at HDTV resolution with full shaders. It’s quite nice. :-) I doubt it would be noticeably worse on the 20" with the lower graphics chip option… but I can test it at work next week.

I also run Ubuntu on the iMac, but currently only under Parallels. There’s no hardware support for OpenGL under Linux in Parallels, so the performance there is less than stellar.

_________________
E-mail: jens@oolite.org

Okay – I changed gears. I was all set to get an iMac. Due to space constraints and portability needs, I have decided to get a Macbook 2.2GHz with 4Gb of RAM.

How will Oolite run on this machine? Oolite is the only game I plan on playing and my decision is hinging on this.

Thanks

Chad

Um, it will run pretty much perfectly. That is a slightly higher spec that the machine I am on right now, and I can run oolite with debug and all sort on at a pretty much perfect speed. I dont know about framerate, it looks good enough, and thats all that matters to me. The proper build, without xcode and stuff running will be faster, and more stable.

As I mentioned above, my MacBook Pro with "only" 2GHz and only 512MB in enough for a framerate of almost constantly 99 fps.

With a little more processor-power and eight times more RAM I really don't see how you could ever run into problems. So just do it!

_________________
The Story — The Career — The OXPs

I figured the processor and RAM were more than adequate.

My concern was the lower end on-board graphics in the Macbooks. I keep reading how bad Macbooks are for gaming.

It will not be an issue.

i've been able to play a surprising number of games on the macbook. of course, i'm mostly interested in older games, not the cutting edge. i've been playing with descent:freespace 2 for a while now with few issues. and that's fairly graphics hungry. oolite should run great!

_________________
arukibito ga michi wo erabu no ka, michi ga arukibito wo erabu no deshou ka?


Play games. Win Amazon gift cards! Brag. Repeat.

The only problem you will have if you are migrating from pc to mac is that there is no joystick support.. most annoying

_________________
Mark W
Unix - where commands look like line noise

that's what usboverdrive is for!!! ^^

_________________
arukibito ga michi wo erabu no ka, michi ga arukibito wo erabu no deshou ka?


Play games. Win Amazon gift cards! Brag. Repeat.

if you get an analogue joystick to work using USB overdrive, please let me know how.

_________________
MacBook pro, OSX 10.8.5, Xcode 5

I have run Oolite on Leopard (10.5.1) and it was visually very crisp
I liked it -- no probs at all
....although I junked Leopard for work-related reasons: yes, I know, very poor prioritising!

& an almost, but not quite, unrelated Q., what's MacMini like?

That used to be very much the case. Nowadays, all new MacBooks have nVidia 9400M units integrated, and they manage reasonably. A lot more than the previous Intel GMA units, anyway.

Best wishes,
Oscar