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[Anomwarrior]

Hi!
I want to play on a computer equipped with a ppc, and I read in another thread that I was limited to the versions 0.31.12 and older. However, when I go to the download section on the page Bay 12 Games, the line concerning the mac download for this version is not hyperlinked. My question therefore is: why is that? Also, how may I get hold of this version?
Thanks a lot for your answers
Anomwarrior

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[Garath]

might want to change your title to 31.12, since 34 only goes to .10

there probably is a file storage somewhere where you can find it, even though not through the main page. good luck

[NecroRebel]

Older versions are available on the older versions page, appropriately enough.

Anyway, you're looking for version 31.12, not 34.12. 34.12 hasn't yet been released and likely won't be for at least a week and a half.

[Garath]

as OP stated, the mac version for 31.12 can't be downloaded from there

[Anomwarrior]

I am deeply sorry for my wrong title. I meant of course 0.31.12, otherwise my post wouldn't make sens at all. I corrected it. Thanks for warning me.
However, I can't seem to find the file anywhere. Should I move to an older version? And why are the versions 0.31.01 to 0.31.12 unavailable?

[slink]

As best as I am able to understand from the 2010 dev log (http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/dev_2010.html) around September Tarn Adams discovered that his SDL license did not allow him to distribute SDL versions for DF 31.06 through 31.12.  Since Linux and Mac versions are also missing for those versions, perhaps they also used the SDL package?

[Niyazov]

I see that you're new here; welcome to the Bay 12 Forums!

Dwarf Fortress is a deceptive game- it looks like a primitive ASCII game, but it places extreme performance demands on even modern computers because of the enormous volume of pathfinding and item handling that the game has to do (and Toady has admitted that the code is underoptimized.) World generation is also highly resource intensive, although you only have to do it once.

I'd be very surprised if you can get acceptable performance out of even an older version of Dwarf Fortress on a PowerPC machine. .40d was almost unplayable after a couple of migrant waves on my 1 GHZ G4 Powerbook, even on 2x2 embarks. World generation could take an hour or more depending on parameters.

As far as I can tell the major limiting factor is that the front side bus on the PowerPC 74** series is horribly slow- it was designed for single-channel SDRAM and can't even run DDR1 at full bandwidth. Dwarf Fortress performance is highly tied to RAM performance.

The last generation of G4 machines were very sad- packed with high-performance components that the processor was completely incapable of using to their full capacity. They put DDR2 in the last generation of Powerbooks even though the machine could only run it at something like 1/4 of its rated speed.