Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead version 0.B Brin released. (Now with MAC builds!)

danlett · 2014-11-27T02:41:43.000Z

Hey. I’m a Mac user so I know I deserve no sympathy, but I cannot get the new builds to work. I was able to run 0.A easily enough from the terminal, but these .apps fail to launch (tiles and curses). The tiles version gives this fault (in console):

Line 7 Segmentation fault: 11

I installed xcode, dev tools, command line tools, homebrew and got gcc and the other libraries/pre-requisites listed above by BluePirot. I am using 10.7.9 (the build file seems to suggest that CDDA supports 10.7 and up). I am not sure why they won’t run. I would love to try tiles, but I’d settle just to play ascii 0.B at the moment. I even attempted to compile it, but I ran into user-stupidity issues.

Could anyone talk me through this or possibly put up a build like the 0.A build (without the executable) as that one worked just fine.

Thanks so much. What a game.

pope187 · 2014-11-27T08:42:20.000Z

the new 0.B keeps crashing on start up. last version worked fine. any ideas? thanks! Windows SDL/ Tile build. Curses 0.B works perfectly though.

qvverty · 2014-11-30T01:56:48.000Z

[quote=“danlett, post:49, topic:7916”]Hey. I’m a Mac user so I know I deserve no sympathy, but I cannot get the new builds to work. I was able to run 0.A easily enough from the terminal, but these .apps fail to launch (tiles and curses). The tiles version gives this fault (in console):

Line 7 Segmentation fault: 11

I installed xcode, dev tools, command line tools, homebrew and got gcc and the other libraries/pre-requisites listed above by BluePirot. I am using 10.7.9 (the build file seems to suggest that CDDA supports 10.7 and up). I am not sure why they won’t run. I would love to try tiles, but I’d settle just to play ascii 0.B at the moment. I even attempted to compile it, but I ran into user-stupidity issues.

Could anyone talk me through this or possibly put up a build like the 0.A build (without the executable) as that one worked just fine.

Thanks so much. What a game.[/quote]

Can’t launch 0.B either. You can use the Wineskin Winery to run Windows version, that works for me.

Lanceo90 · 2014-12-01T01:42:29.000Z

And here I was deep in a Let’s Play of a random experimental build.

Time to start a new one.

Lt_Muffintoes · 2014-12-02T09:12:47.000Z

Hi, this might be a stupid question, but I’ve started playing on 0.B 2463, can I update to 2464 without deleting my character/world?

Cheers

FunsizeNinja123 · 2014-12-02T22:03:17.000Z

Copy save and your config folder

Delete everything in CDDA folder

DL new version and unzip it in new folder

Paste save folder and config folder

Done!

KA101 · 2014-12-02T23:49:07.000Z

[quote=“FunsizeNinja123, post:54, topic:7916”]Copy save and your config folder

Delete everything in CDDA folder

DL new version and unzip it in new folder

Paste save folder and config folder

Done![/quote]

Keep your old version Just In Case. We only have stables and the 10 most recent experimentals, so in the unlikely event you grab one that’s Not Working, better to have a backup to which to revert.

Chase · 2014-12-03T17:48:26.000Z

Just wanna say, i’m to blame (thank?) for the switch to SDL 2.0. I know it caused a lot of headaches all around, so sorry for that.

vultures · 2014-12-04T03:08:15.000Z

Blah, when I suggested SDL to cope with Tiles version (then TBA) issues, the 2.0 was just released.
A great push forth and a great inspiration for some future line of (C:DDA) coders!

Straitis · 2014-12-04T20:14:11.000Z

Dear lord this made me cry as well. I honestly lost hope a few months ago thinking that the development had ceased.

Cannot wait (In fact I never did, playing it atm) to tear into this.

TheFlame52 · 2014-12-04T20:31:00.000Z

Straitis:

Dear lord this made me cry as well. I honestly lost hope a few months ago thinking that the development had ceased.

Dude, there are like three new experimentals every day…

LordOfganza · 2014-12-14T00:00:38.000Z

Dear Developers of Cataclysm DDA

I would like to personally thank you for making a native Mac Build (with executable!) available in such a short time. When I heard the new version was released, I got really excited about all the extra content, but frustrated for the lack of a Mac version. I posted a comment on your Facebook page and the reply said that none of the Devs used Mac, so there was not to be any expectation of a Mac build anytime soon. I was also criticized by members of the group on FB for being senseless in my requests for the mac version, that I should get windows or play the game in a VM.
I entered your webpage today just hoping something might have changed, and there it was! I followed BluePirot’s instructions before even trying to run the game, just to make sure everything went fine, and it has (at least so far), thanks BluePirot!

Anyway, thanks so much once more for caring for us, Mac users, as well. It means a lot, seriously.
Congratulations on an epic update for a truly epic game. Job superbly well done!

Luis

KA101 · 2014-12-14T01:03:08.000Z

[quote=“LordOfganza, post:60, topic:7916”]Dear Developers of Cataclysm DDA

I would like to personally thank you for making a native Mac Build (with executable!) available in such a short time. When I heard the new version was released, I got really excited about all the extra content, but frustrated for the lack of a Mac version. I posted a comment on your Facebook page and the reply said that none of the Devs used Mac, so there was not to be any expectation of a Mac build anytime soon. I was also criticized by members of the group on FB for being senseless in my requests for the mac version, that I should get windows or play the game in a VM.
I entered your webpage today just hoping something might have changed, and there it was! I followed BluePirot’s instructions before even trying to run the game, just to make sure everything went fine, and it has (at least so far), thanks BluePirot!

Anyway, thanks so much once more for caring for us, Mac users, as well. It means a lot, seriously.
Congratulations on an epic update for a truly epic game. Job superbly well done!

Luis[/quote]

Dev here.

So far as I know, that Mac build is courtesy of a supporter (update: mrfrostee) on reddit. We’d love to support Mac more than we do, but none of us has one on which to build/test/etc, and we’re not likely to spend the general-donations fund on a Mac just to fix that.

So we’re duly appreciative of folks who put in their time and effort to get DDA running on an OS we don’t have at hand. Our thanks too.

m4davis · 2014-12-15T04:15:14.000Z

[quote=“BluePirot, post:47, topic:7916”]Awesome! Thank you so much for the Mac builds, this is the coolest roguelike I’ve ever played!

A note to mac users who use a CASE SENSITIVE filesystem (rare but we’re out there) - you’ll need to edit the info.plist file located in CataclysmX.app to be named Info.plist in order for the mac builds to run for you.

Also I needed to install homebrew and run
brew install sdl2 sdl2_ttf sdl2_image lua lua51

but after that things were marvelous!!! Very cool improvements I can’t believe this is only the B![/quote]
Hey another mac player here checked back here to see if anything came out that I could use and was pleasantly surprised when there was. Extremely disappointed when it didn’t start properly so I looked into the forums for a potential solution found this post followed the instructions and now it works like a charm. Thank you

bubbadoo14 · 2014-12-17T00:55:16.000Z

God damn
FUCK OOOOOOFFFF you damn spam bot! No one cares!

vache · 2014-12-17T02:36:49.000Z

Why so harsh? He just made one post, hardly spamming.

Rivet · 2014-12-17T02:50:57.000Z

vache:

Why so harsh? He just made one post, hardly spamming.

Apparently you missed the six or eight identical spamposts bubbadoo14 was referring to.

m4davis · 2014-12-17T02:54:57.000Z

I get the feeling that vache missed the spam post completely and thought that bubbadoo14 was talking to me which I doubt and hope doesn’t count as some form of spamming.

bubbadoo14 · 2014-12-17T23:01:28.000Z

Rivet:

[quote=“vache, post:64, topic:7916”]Why so harsh? He just made one post, hardly spamming.

Apparently you missed the six or eight identical spamposts bubbadoo14 was referring to.[/quote]
and the 6 more which was on another announcement thread.
The spambots are getting real obnoxious!

CosmicKobal · 2014-12-28T19:17:45.000Z

I hope this isn’t a stupid question, but what determines when a new stable build is released? I do appreciate the effort and work put into Cataclysm, but that doesn’t stop me from wanting MORE, lol.