Professor Fizzwizzle - universal binary test

[Ryan Clark]

Hi all,

I've just finished the creation of the (Mac) universal binary version of Professor Fizzwizzle. If any of you Mac users have time to give it a quick test, I would really appreciate it!:

http://grubbygames.com/TEMP_ONLY/ProfessorFizzwizzleDEMO.dmg

Feedback from both Intel and PPC Mac users would be great :) This is my first stab at creating a universal binary, but hopefully I haven't made any mistakes.

Have any other devs here made universal builds of their Mac games? I know there are a few universal Java games, but I assume that these didn't require any major changes? (Or perhaps they did?)

Thanks for the help!

[Sillysoft]

Works fine on my PPC mac, which is all I have to test with here.

Making my java games universal didn't require anything at all (except for a bit of testing).

[Ryan Clark]

Thanks for the help, Dustin!

I've put the new universal binary version live on the site now, so if anyone with an Intel Mac has the time to test it, please download it here:

http://grubbygames.com/download.php

[princec]

I'm having terrible trouble with Intel Macs - there seems to be a bug in CoreAudio which causes all of my games to crash randomly after a while for no reason. Let me know if you come across this problem too. I'm desperate for a workaround.

Cas :)

[Ryan Clark]

Well, I've tested PF thoroughly with my Intel Mac, and haven't had any sound issues. I use the FMOD library though, so perhaps that makes a difference.

We've had about a thousand downloads of the universal binary since I released it yesterday, and no bug reports from users yet (though that doesn't mean there are no bugs!).

I'll let you know if I hear anything about the CoreAudio issue, Cas.

[princec]

The crash doesn't happen for quite some time - usually takes until the Moon or Mars levels in Titan before it happens.

Cas :)

[Jon Trainer]

The PF Universal Binary runs just fine on my Intel Mac Mini Core Duo.

I had a terrible time with sound on Intel macs as well.

I was able to isolate the crashing to a single wav file. The only workaround I could muster was to replace the sound with a completely different one.

This was the only issue with my Universal Binary. Other than that everything just ran.

[Ryan Clark]

Thanks very much for testing it, Jon!