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Dwarf

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Dwarf Fortress dropped PPC support?
« on: November 01, 2010, 06:34:45 am »
Today I wanted to download 0.31.16, after having played the hell out of 40d and .16 seems to have an acceptable stability and bug-freeness.
It seems however that Toady dropped the PPC architecture and is now only releasing for x86 macs.

Why is that?
Is developing for the dieing PPC architecture too much work?
Have you decided to drop it due to lack of performance?
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Re: Dwarf Fortress dropped PPC support?
« Reply #1 on: November 01, 2010, 09:58:38 am »
I don't know for certain but there was a group of macs that didn't work try going before 31.12 to see if I'm right.
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Re: Dwarf Fortress dropped PPC support?
« Reply #2 on: November 01, 2010, 07:30:21 pm »
When 0.31.13 was released PPC support was dropped. Here's a relevant post

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# 09/17/2010: There's the Mac version, which due to more compiler woes will work only with Intel Macs at this point, as far as I understand it. The Windows version doesn't work on Windows 2000 anymore either, as some people have noticed for me the hard way. I've been catching up on email that piled up during the long release cycle, and I'm going to handle more email and forum questions and so on. Then there will probably be another bug fix release before the month end project work begins.

I'm guessing from the "compiler woes" comment, Toady wants to maintain a PPC version, but is unable to figure it out at the moment. Maybe he'll get back to it after this release.
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Re: Dwarf Fortress dropped PPC support?
« Reply #3 on: November 01, 2010, 07:50:09 pm »
Well, damn. There goes DF, at least for now.
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Re: Dwarf Fortress dropped PPC support?
« Reply #4 on: November 02, 2010, 01:38:24 am »
You can try 31.12 it was reasoably stabile.
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Re: Dwarf Fortress dropped PPC support?
« Reply #5 on: November 04, 2010, 02:19:33 pm »
Quote from: thijser on November 02, 2010, 01:38:24 am
You can try 31.12 it was reasoably stabile.
I second that. It's pretty stable.
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Re: Dwarf Fortress dropped PPC support?
« Reply #6 on: November 04, 2010, 04:07:49 pm »
i played 40d then jumped on .12 for a damn long while and enjoyed it. only thing i didnt like much was the dont sleep in own bed bug and the inability to set bone stockpile beside that it was fun :)
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