macpete

Thank you Octane, keep up the good work!

Here I am ... I'm sorry it has taken so long. I've delivered my article last June in form of an introductory survey. Essentially, it's more a cumulative review than an essay (it would be boring). The article has been published a few days ago in the August issue of my magazine. These scans are not readable 'cause this is copyright stuff, of course. I've post them only to show you that your help has been precious ... Thank you very much for your help (a special thank to Octane) .

>Getting a universal binary (...) >Not sure if you want to mention this in your article macpete. Yes, thank you for the info 0ctane ...

Since there have been no reports of crazy behavior beyond currently known issues, everyone can get the current release from my website. (...) Nice job, 0ctane

Glad to hear that. Ask them if it would be possible to send us a copy of the magazine, with the EL article in it. Or at least a scan. We probably won't be able to send a copy of the mag to all the publishers and the developers that has been involved but I will try to send everyone a scan of the article ... but it's still a bit early, I have to start writing first I've started a discussion with the Mac gamers that play EL here: http://www.eternal-lands.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=23208

Hi, my name’s Pietro and I’m posting from Italy. As I've just written to 0ctane (that I have to thank for his kindness and for all the useful infos that he has given to me), I'm a writer of a very popular (and aged: we've celebrated our 200th issue two years ago) Italian monthly Macintosh magazine. I write consumer-related articles and reviews almost (I’m a bit lazy) every month and I'm writing a report that will try to cover some of the MMORPG games that have reached our platform in the last few years (like World of Warcraft, Everquest Mac Edition, Shadowbane, Minions of Mirth, Second Life, A Tale in the Desert II, Vendetta Online, Lineage and some other interesting shareware and open-source projects like Planeshift and Dofus). I'd like to supplement this report with a very short description of each title and so in the last year I’ve tried to play each of them shortly, 10-15 hours of gameplay for each one, just to take some in-game screenshots and have a taste of them (with the exception of World of Warcraft and Minions of Mirth wich I 've played more often than the others) ... I’ve already tried almost all the aforementioned MMORPG titles with the excepion for EverQuest Mac Edition (that I'm playing right now) and Second Life. I've also tried the old port of Eternal Lands made by Corun for a few hours and I'm now toying with the brand-new port made by 0ctane ... Of course, my main source of informations and feeling are the communities of players like yours. Here’s my questions for the Mac/EL community: - with the landing of a big commercial hit like World of Warcraft on our platform and the competition of smaller but ambitious and interesting projects like Minions of Mirth, Dofus and Planeshift, is Eternal Lands still an option for the Mac gamers that would like to start a new MMORPG experience? - are you satisfied with how the magazines and the Mac-oriented websites have covered this game? Do you think that EL would deserve more attention and that more visibility would help it find more supporters among the Mac community? Thanks a lot for your help and sorry for my rusty English. Pietro (www.applicando.com) -------------------------------------------------- Don't forget to follow 0ctane's work: MacOS X port thread and to notify your bugs: OS X client specific bugs and To Do thread

Ehm, sorry ... I was in a hurry (hey, even the forum moderator of the IMG BBS has scolded me 'cause I've posted the screenshots of EL without using the thumbnails ... you must be patient with me ). I'm attending a couple of dozens of BBSs these days 'cause I'm writing a wide report for an Italian magazine (an article that will describe the phenomenon of the massive multiplayer games from a Mac user point of view) and I'm very happy to see that the Mac port of this popular MMORPG is coming Back to Life. Good luck. Here I am again ... the time has come, I'm writing the report. I will deliver it in a matter of two weeks so if you have news to share please feel free to contact me

Ehm, sorry ... I was in a hurry (hey, even the forum moderator of the IMG BBS has scolded me 'cause I've posted the screenshots of EL without using the thumbnails ... you must be patient with me ). I'm attending a couple of dozens of BBSs these days 'cause I'm writing a wide report for an Italian magazine (an article that will describe the phenomenon of the massive multiplayer games from a Mac user point of view) and I'm very happy to see that the Mac port of this popular MMORPG is coming Back to Life. Good luck.

Great job, octane! Keep us up to date! PS I've updated the IMG thread