1.29 Semi-public beta

[Queue]

Brad I must say you have out done yourself again. We are so lucky to have you on our side of the fence

Thanks for you hard work on this!

 

[easy]

Dittoe's to Brad. Will this work on the OS 10.1? Will not down load until your blessing Brad. EZ

 

[Brad Oliver]

Originally posted by easy
Will this work on the OS 10.1? Will not down load until your blessing Brad. EZ

It should work on any system that could run the original Mac Civ3 release. IIRC, that's MacOS 8.6 and up.

 

[Fier Canadien]

:worshp::worshp:Brad! Brad!:worshp::worshp:

I'll download this beta as soon as I come back home (i'm on a disgusting PC right now). And, THANKS for your work on this!

 

[Sphere]

As always, great work.

Will the other mac monitor sizes like 1280x854 be suported?

 

[Brad Oliver]

Originally posted by Sphere
As always, great work.

Will the other mac monitor sizes like 1280x854 be suported?

If you know of a size that's not in the current beta, post here and I'll add it. The minimum size is 1024x768, so any new resolution has to be larger than that.

 

[tao]

Originally posted by Sphere
Will the other mac monitor sizes like 1280x854 be suported?

The pop-up menu shows the special sizes of

• 1154x768
• 1600x1024
• 1920x1200

in addition to the "ordinary" ones. At least on my MDD. (I use 1600x1200.)

 

[Txurce]

Brad, I am deep into the industrial age with the Roman GOTM, and have had no problems - everything works. I have further isolated the "slowness" I noted - it occurs once the game thinks I'm done with a turn, and tells me to press the return bar. At that point, the pointer is very sluggish in scrolling the edges of the map, I can no longer click on a unit in a city to activate, but must open the city and wake the unit, and saving also takes a moment before the box appears on the screen.

 

[dojoboy]

Brad, I got a hang up in 520 AD. Music kept skipping and cursor froze. I've got a save file but am unsure how to get a crash log. Where's the "console" in Civ3?

edit

Well, I had inserted some multi-units during the 1.29 beta game prior to the freeze. I went back and removed them and the game has progressed uneventful of freezes or recognizable bugs.

I must say, I very much enjoy the 'wake all'/'fortify all' feature plus naming GL producing elite units.

 

[Sphere]

Brad,
1.21g supported the following sizes that are not in 1.29f.

1280x854
1440x900

I think these may be powerbook only sizes (not sure). Playing the game at 1024x768 when I am used to 1280x854 is pretty frustrating and kinda fuzzy looking. Thanks again for all the work.

 

[Tex]

one real minor thing i found was in the save game load window, it wasn't recognizing folders as folders if the name started with a space, it tried to load them as a .sav file.

 

[stung4ever]

My game recently crashed, the music hung up, and a bunch of code in white text appeared over parts of the game with a black background. And it's not the first time it's happened, but it's not just on this version either.

Date/Time: 2003-04-09 22:00:03 -0500
OS Version: 10.2.4 (Build 6I32)
Host: Christian-Waits-Computer.local.

Command: Civilization III
PID: 483

Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS (0x0001) at 0x3336367a

Thread 0 Crashed:
#0 0x002f07e4 in on_left_double_click__7ConsoleFii
#1 0x0026be9c in left_double_click_event__3WinFiii
#2 0x00271634 in on_l_button_down__3WinFiiii
#3 0x00264e00 in OnLButtonDown__17SysMessageHandlerFiii
#4 0x001d5bf0 in OnLButtonDown__14MessageHandlerFP6HWND__iiiUi
#5 0x001d5440 in window_proc__14MessageHandlerFP6HWND__UiUil
#6 0x001a5c68 in DispatchMessageA
#7 0x00216e1c in do_task__6JGLSysFv
#8 0x00216d68 in wait_task__6JGLSysFv
#9 0x002652e0 in wait_task__Fv
#10 0x002e425c in humanTurn__7ConsoleFv
#11 0x002f846c in control_game__Fb
#12 0x002cb768 in run__13Civilization3Fiib
#13 0x0038a29c in WinMain
#14 0x001b55fc in main

Thread 1:
#0 0x9003ea88 in semaphore_wait_signal_trap
#1 0x9003e8a4 in _pthread_cond_wait
#2 0x90233368 in TSWaitOnSemaphoreCommon
#3 0x9023c170 in TimerThread
#4 0x90020d28 in _pthread_body

Thread 2:
#0 0x9003ea88 in semaphore_wait_signal_trap
#1 0x9003e8a4 in _pthread_cond_wait
#2 0x90233368 in TSWaitOnSemaphoreCommon
#3 0x90233ca8 in DeferredTaskThread
#4 0x90020d28 in _pthread_body

Thread 3:
#0 0x9003ea88 in semaphore_wait_signal_trap
#1 0x9003e8a4 in _pthread_cond_wait
#2 0x90233368 in TSWaitOnSemaphoreCommon
#3 0x90248a10 in _Z15AsyncFileThreadPv
#4 0x90020d28 in _pthread_body

Thread 4:
#0 0x90073c28 in mach_msg_trap
#1 0x90005f70 in mach_msg
#2 0x90148b10 in __CFRunLoopRun
#3 0x90180fe4 in CFRunLoopRunSpecific
#4 0x94d9c1c0 in _ZN10HALRunLoop9OwnThreadEPv
#5 0x94d911b0 in _ZN9CAPThread5EntryEPS_
#6 0x90020d28 in _pthread_body

Thread 5:
#0 0x90042668 in semaphore_timedwait_signal_trap
#1 0x9003e894 in _pthread_cond_wait
#2 0x94d83ac4 in _ZN7CAGuard7WaitForEy
#3 0x94d832b0 in _ZN7CAGuard9WaitUntilEy
#4 0x94d822e0 in _ZN15XThreadedDevice8IOThreadEv
#5 0x94d95a24 in _ZN15XThreadedDevice13IOThreadEntryEPv
#6 0x94d911b0 in _ZN9CAPThread5EntryEPS_
#7 0x90020d28 in _pthread_body

PPC Thread State:
srr0: 0x002f07e4 srr1: 0x0000f030 vrsave: 0x00000000
xer: 0x00000000 lr: 0x002f0658 ctr: 0x001a90a8 mq: 0x00000000
r0: 0x000018b4 r1: 0xbffff520 r2: 0x004e7000 r3: 0x00001898
r4: 0x00000001 r5: 0x00000001 r6: 0x33363636 r7: 0x00000000
r8: 0x00000007 r9: 0x000000fa r10: 0x00000000 r11: 0x00000001
r12: 0xa1a52904 r13: 0x00000000 r14: 0x00000000 r15: 0x80000000
r16: 0x0068e0a4 r17: 0x00680640 r18: 0x00574ebc r19: 0x0057c12c
r20: 0x00594ebc r21: 0x00537324 r22: 0x00594ebc r23: 0x00574ebc
r24: 0x00000001 r25: 0x00000001 r26: 0x00531c34 r27: 0x00574ebc
r28: 0x05773110 r29: 0x005ba6c8 r30: 0x005baa7c r31: 0x00555f84

 

[Pinky]

Hi there,

Tried the update, but the game crashed twice on me rather early on (2850 BC). Reloaded, and crahsed again, 2 turns later. The game just freezes, but the mouse is still responsive. Force quit works just fine. Didn't behave like this before (I'd get a freeze once every 7h), and I played a lot of games.
OSX 10.2.5, Dual 867, 256Megs RAM.

 

[gfeier]

Damn! Just finished a great game, my first with the editor, as the Germans with my very own mod.bic (set barracks to reduce corruption and cities to 64) and fired up Moo3. The new Moo is much better than the reviews indicate with the data patch installed (code patch next month) and I'm enjoying it a lot. So what does Brad do? releases a 1.29f beta. And I'd just preordered Europa Universalis II. What was that about no games for the Mac? Looks like my next couple of years are covered.

Thanks Brad, I really appreciate the extra work!!!

 

[Pinky]

Hey,

Tried playing some more, but the game keeps crashing, once every 3 minutes or so. Unplayable basically. Too bad.

 

[Txurce]

Pinky, since no one else is reporting anywhere near the number of crashes that you are, there may be something else going on. Even your previous crash rate - one evry seven hours - sounds unusually bad. You may want to re-install the game, or otherwise troubleshoot what's going on.

 

[dojoboy]

Txurce is right Pinky. There is definitely something else going on w/ your Civ3 application.

 

[Mavfin]

Agreed. It's not the patch. It's your machine.

 

[Pinky]

Well, I went back to 1.21g, and played for quite a long time with no errors/bugs. For me, there is clearly something different between the 2 apps. Wasn't there something I could type in the terminal to get the ouput error ?

I'll try reinstalling the whole thing later. Will keep you posted.

 

[Txurce]

Open the console in OSX, find the Civ3 crash - it'll be listed as such - and then open the log from the menu.