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minuteman
2009-08-29, 01:13 AM
If I remember correctly, the Omni Group was in charge of the 'Freedom Force' port for MacPlay back in the days.

While the game works fine under Mac OS X Leopard, it seems to be incompatible with Snow Leopard. I've tried to start it up this morning to no avail. The application becomes unresponsive and I get the following 'FF.err' log file:

PYTHON: 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback

'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
glob: Undefined error: 0
glob: No such file or directory
glob: No such file or directory
cpu time = 0x0000041b : 0x01f6e652
cpu time = 0x0000041b : 0x01f8714e
System processor count is 2

I was hoping that someone from the Omni Group could find the time to look into the matter and maybe release a patch to let the game run again?

I believe that's what happened for 'Oni' at one time (which the Omni Group ported).

(BTW 'Oni' runs fine under 10.6 as far as I can tell.)

So, I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

Thanks for all. Best.
minuteman
2009-08-29, 05:54 AM
To complete my previous post, here is a sample of the hung 'Freedom Force' process.

Best.
Ken Case
2009-09-07, 01:49 PM
I was hoping that someone from the Omni Group could find the time to look into the matter and maybe release a patch to let the game run again?

With Freedom Force, we were working under contract and don't have the right to publish new updates.

I believe that's what happened for 'Oni' at one time (which the Omni Group ported).

The situation with Oni was a little different: we were working independently, and acquired permission to distribute our updates to keep it running. I'm glad to hear Oni is still working for you!
minuteman
2009-09-08, 09:11 PM
With Freedom Force, we were working under contract and don't have the right to publish new updates.


Thank you for the update.

So, as far as I understand, the game is orphaned: MacPlay has been folded into MumboJumbo, which doesn't offer any support for the MacPlay games themselves.

If you can't release an update officially, would you be able to post an _unofficial_ patch? The game works perfectly under Leopard. I don't know what the problem is under 10.6, but if it's only minor, maybe a small patch could do the trick.

Anyway, thanks again for taking the time to answer my questions.

Best.