Rainbow Web (Windows to Mac OS porting)

[Alex Belyakov]

Hello!

I’m porting the Sugar Games’ Rainbow Web (http://www.sugargames.com/rainbow_web/) from MS Windows to Mac OS X.
The work is almost finished; unfortunately I only have Mac Mini with Mac OS X 10.4 so I cannot test the game on other configurations.

I’d like some testing on different computers and Mac OS versions, please.

Here’s the link to the current beta-version: http://www.SugarGames.com/files/RainbowWebMacBeta.zip (no Universal Binary at this moment, only a PowerPC version).
Info and screen-shots can be found here: http://www.sugargames.com/rainbow_web/.

The game makes a lot of image processing (alpha channel calculations), and I’ve done this with vImage library, so I’d really appreciate some testing under Mac OS 10.2 and 10.3 (I don’t expect the game to run fast in 10.2, I only hope it can start :)

Please let me know the following information:
1) You computer specifications (CPU speed, RAM, video card).
2) The Mac OS version.
3) Was the game fast enough to play (in both Windowed and Full Screen modes)?
4) How playable the game is?

Any comments, questions and feedback are welcome and appreciated.
Thanks in advance!

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Alex Belyakov
info@sugargames.com

[Cochrane]

iMac G5, 2.1 Ghz, 1.5 GB RAM, ATI Radeon X600 XT (128 MB RAM)
Mac OS X 10.4.6 (Sorry, I don't have anything older)
The game was fast enough to play and playable, both in fullscreen and windowed. It was, by the way, also fun to play. However, it crashed when I quit it.

[Tools10]

PowerBook G4 867 Mhz
Ati Radeon 9000 ME 32 MB VRAM
512 MB RAM
OS X 10.3.9
It's smooth and playable except for the "end animations" when you've finished a puzzle(both in full-screen and windowed mode).
The only problem where when the game exited after the trail time had expired, by some reason it exited with an error message.

[Alex Belyakov]

Thank you for the replies!

I'll fix the error you've mentioned and upload a new version.

[Alex Belyakov]

I'm afraid I cannot reproduce this error :(
The game ends perfectly here.
Could you please send me the game crash log to info@sugargames.com?

[Alex Belyakov]

Ok, the beta is updated. Here's what was changed:
1. Loading speed is improved.
2. Several testers have reported that game could hang or crash when the first bead was clicked. Fixed.
3. Apple-F turns on/off displaying of FPS.

The new beta is available for downloading from the same URL: http://www.sugargames.com/files/RainbowWebMacBeta.zip (9,9 Megs as before).

Testing / reports / comments etc are still welcome!