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> They don't age well. Try playing a game from before ~2006. As an example, I play Warcraft 3 a lot. Basic ladder works, but a fair amount of custom maps are
by xenophanes 16y ago
> They don't age well. Try playing a game from before ~2006.
As an example, I play Warcraft 3 a lot. Basic ladder works, but a fair amount of custom maps are broken on Mac and work on windows. OS upgrades made things worse. For example, Snow Leopard somehow makes Castle Fight crash -- the same version of the map worked fine on Leopard. I have to use bootcamp a bunch.
Fortunately Blizzard sells dual platform games.
- duskwuff 16y agoThe Castle Fight crashiness appears to be the result of a file format hack the map author's used to "protect" the map -- custom unprotected versions work fine.
- xenophanes 16y agoCool. What hack? The only ones I know about are replacing some of the world editor files with zero byte files, and moving the jass file into the scripts directory. But I'm pretty sure those are mac safe. BTW I played Castle Fight under the name curi.
- duskwuff 16y agoI'm not clear on the details, but there's some information on the map forum: http://eeve.org/board/viewtopic.php?f=55&t=3560 http://eeve.org/board/viewtopic.php?f=55&t=3560 If I had more spare time on my hands, I'd try to figure it out by disassembling those map files and comparing them. But I don't, so I won't. :)