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Joel Schmidt
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 Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 9:30 pm Post subject: Magic Engine and OS X 10.5 |
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A warning for anyone upgrading to OS X Leopard tonight (or anytime soon).
When run under 10.5, Magic Engine is unable to find the arial font and shuts down immediately.
The only workaround at this time is to install Leopard as an regular upgrade.
Choosing Archive and Install or installing Leopard to a erased/new hard drive causes the problem.
I have informed David of the issue and hopefully he will be able to figure out what is going on soon. |
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dmichel
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| Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 10:58 pm Post subject: |
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I wrote a quick fix but I dunno if it works as I have not upgraded yet, try this version if MagicEngine stops to work under OS X 10.5 and let me know if it fixes the problem.
http://www.magicengine.com/files/magicengine100-pr10-3.dmg
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Joel Schmidt
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| Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 12:14 am Post subject: |
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still doesn't work.
But I DID find the problem. go into your source code and make sure to put the .ttf extension on all fonts that are needed by ME. For example, change Arial to Arial.ttf in the source code. That will fix the issue. |
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dmichel
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| Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 9:51 am Post subject: |
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Oh OK, I understand now, in Tiger the Arial font was using the old Apple pre OS X font format, not TTF. I thought the problem was font paths not font format. 
Are there different TTF files for italic and bold (and bold-italic)?
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Joel Schmidt
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| dmichel wrote: | Oh OK, I understand now, in Tiger the Arial font was using the old Apple pre OS X font format, not TTF. I thought the problem was font paths not font format.
Are there different TTF files for italic and bold (and bold-italic)? |
Arial Bold Italic.ttf
Arial Bold.ttf
Arial Italic.ttf
Arial Narrow Bold Italic.ttf
Arial Narrow Bold.ttf
Arial Narrow Italic.ttf
Arial Narrow.ttf
Arial Rounded Bold.ttf
Arial Unicode.ttf
Arial.ttf
any others?
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Joel Schmidt
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| Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 9:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Joel Schmidt wrote: | | dmichel wrote: | Oh OK, I understand now, in Tiger the Arial font was using the old Apple pre OS X font format, not TTF. I thought the problem was font paths not font format.
Are there different TTF files for italic and bold (and bold-italic)? |
Arial Bold Italic.ttf
Arial Bold.ttf
Arial Italic.ttf
Arial Narrow Bold Italic.ttf
Arial Narrow Bold.ttf
Arial Narrow Italic.ttf
Arial Narrow.ttf
Arial Rounded Bold.ttf
Arial Unicode.ttf
Arial.ttf
Any others?  |
Stupid quote command.. David, how come you don't have a way to delete posts enabled on here? |
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dmichel
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| Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 12:09 am Post subject: |
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| Joel Schmidt wrote: | | Stupid quote command.. David, how come you don't have a way to delete posts enabled on here? |
The delete post command is disabled, you can only edit a post.
About the font list, that's perfect, that's all I needed, thanks!
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Fred Duck
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| Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 1:47 am Post subject: 2 other problems in Leopard |
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Hi, I'm new, but I just wanted to report 2 errors I've seen running ME PR10-2&3 on a new 15" MacBook Pro, which are:
1) Full screen mode doesn't work. The picture stops updating, although the emulator (including sound) is still running. Going back into a window lets the video update normally.
2) Dracula X doesn't register any button presses, either on the keyboard or a controller.
Let me know what further information I should provide.
Thanks,
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Joel Schmidt
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| Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 2:42 am Post subject: Re: 2 other problems in Leopard |
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| Fred Duck wrote: | | 2) Dracula X doesn't register any button presses, either on the keyboard or a controller. |
Hmmm Dracula X works fine for me. Are you sure you are using a good copy of the game? |
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| Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 9:59 am Post subject: Dracula X |
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I hope it's good...I bought it when it came out in '93 (?) and have taken as good care as I can of it. (It's seen a lot of use, though!) Works fine in the used PC Engine Duo-R I just picked up.
-Fred Duck |
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| Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 6:09 pm Post subject: Re: 2 other problems in Leopard |
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| Fred Duck wrote: | | 2) Dracula X doesn't register any button presses, either on the keyboard or a controller. |
If you mean you can't skip the intro, then it's normal.
You just can't on first run until backup ram is created and saved when you start a new game.
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Fred Duck
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| Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 1:03 am Post subject: Magic! |
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Hmm. I played it through once and actually got to the menu at which point it refused to let me actually select things in the menu.
Then I guess at that point, I deleted preferences and tried again, but forgot about waiting for the opening, and now...it works. Thanks for the reminder.
Another thing that's different though is that when iTunes launched this time, it recognised all of the tracks. Before, either it only saw #1 or misrecognised the CD. (I forgot which.) Hmm. Mysterious.
As for the full-screen not working right in Leopard, I've been reading around on the web and it seems like FS is not happy with a lot of things. :\ |
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coolieranx
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| Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 11:11 pm Post subject: Re: 2 other problems in Leopard |
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| Fred Duck wrote: |
1) Full screen mode doesn't work. The picture stops updating, although the emulator (including sound) is still running. Going back into a window lets the video update normally.
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I'm experiencing the same problem on Leopard. |
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n0sebleed
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| Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2007 10:59 am Post subject: got it working |
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Here's a quick fix using the binary posted earlier on this page, http://www.magicengine.com/files/magicengine100-pr10-3.dmg
Pop open a Unix terminal.
cd /Library/Fonts
cp Arial.ttf Arial
If you're unfamiliar with Unix, just know that's all case-sensitive.
This should work until the release. I actually tried this under Tiger, liked it, bought it today long after installing Leopard without testing it first, haha. |
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itsalljustaride
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| Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2012 2:56 pm Post subject: Re: got it working |
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| n0sebleed wrote: | Here's a quick fix using the binary posted earlier on this page, http://www.magicengine.com/files/magicengine100-pr10-3.dmg
Pop open a Unix terminal.
cd /Library/Fonts
cp Arial.ttf Arial
If you're unfamiliar with Unix, just know that's all case-sensitive.
This should work until the release. I actually tried this under Tiger, liked it, bought it today long after installing Leopard without testing it first, haha. |
This worked for me on Lion, but I used the following for best results in the interface:
cp Arial Narrow.ttf Arial
The other Arial fonts were too tall and there was overflow in the menu |
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