presumably he uses codeblocks, which is free. so you could download that. 

See posts #40 - #56 for about compiling the thing. ...And I realised the other day that fitz is the only engine to chew up a miserly 20% cpu. Cool. 

Really, folks, I'm just doing this because I want a decent engine for OS X. The linux version is just a byproduct, which is why I'm not going to be overly motivated to dig around CodeBlocks or whatever to generate makefiles. As Spirit pointed out, CB is free and you can try yourself. 

is the performance supposed to be not as good when running this version on mac leopard vs regular glquake on win xp? 

In my experience there's a loss of around 10-30% with SDL. And XP is possibly the most optimised PC gaming OS ever, so Mac will be behind at least a little extra here. 

I've been using this version of fitz in windows for all my betas and haven't noticed any problems - if anything does crop up I'll post. 

i wasn't complaining, i just wanted to check if there was something i was doing wrong. :) 

I have just released a new beta of the engine. It fixes lots of bugs and has TCP networking through SDL_net.

Grab it at http://www.kristianduske.com/fitzquake/ 

- is good news. Works nicely here :> 

glad to hear that 

Lots of improvements and fixes... Evrything works like a charm now on Mac Osx!

But... The engine doesn't allow to set the command key to strafe right, as I'm used to(strange choice, I know). So I'm stuck with only left strafe. And this sucks.

Any ideas of a workaround?

Great, great job, though, keep it up!
Thanks! 

Could be that this is because the command key is basically unknown to Quake. I'll try and fix this, silent. 

...But I seem to remember that previous versions allowed this.
Mac osx Fruitz of Dojo's GL and Darkplaces allow it too...

Hope this is useful.

Thaks again for all your work.. 

I suggest a little fix to the game/gamedir command:
If rogue or hipnotic are chosen make sure to apply the stuff for the correct HUD drawing. 

good point, i'm planning to do that actually (since i believe that's how it works if you do -game hipnotic or -game rogue) 

Hmmm, I had to change SDL_net/SDL_net.h to SDL/SDL_net.h to get it to compile.

... Will this run on FreeBSD if i can install codeblocks ? Installed FreeBSD 7 this week and am just curious... in a sadistic sort of way. If anyone can say a good thing about FreeBSD (apart from the "security" myth) i'll give it a go. 

I'm pretty confident that it will run on BSD, provided there are SDL binaries and appropriate drivers for that platform. 

There are two or three (very simple) functions in platform.h and pl_<platform>.c that you need to reimplement for your OS. But those functions are really really simple. 

I'd be willing to lend a hand. A BSD port would be nice. 

-rogue and -hipnotic, not -game xxx. A weird and confusing decision by the engine coders back then. 

-game quoth
so the extra weapons show up too...
so you don't have to add -hipnotic to the cmdline? I thought that was the original idea spirit... 

The reason those two commands are different is because they do more than just select the mod directory - they also alter the HUD to display the new weapons. This lets you combine them with a different mod directory, which is why the recommended quoth command line is -hipnotic -game quoth. An option -quoth which combined those two commands would be nice, but I personally wouldn't feel the need to request it. 

when you change gamedir to quoth it could load the extra hud...
so you wouldn't have to have a diff shortcut for quoth. 

A -quoth to combine those two is definitely something that should be added to new engines. Seeing how there are releases that come in their own folder yet use Quoth (eg Warpspasm). AguirRe's engines and I think Darkplaces already support it. Or allow multiple gamedirs. :) 

And what bambuz said.
Pretty much no-one knows about the "-game"-less -rogue and -hipnotic so it would be nice to have the engine recognise those certain gamedirs no matter how they were chosen (-game, game, gamedir).