MacIntosh.....
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Rustycan
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MacIntosh.....
Ok, my friend is interested in playing Pbem and he has a Mac and he tried to get the tool to work on his machine but alas!! It wouldnt work any ideas as to why it did not work?? Or will it just not work on a mac??
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When I was a kid, my father used to say the two worst things in the world are Ignorance and Apathy,
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Well I dont know and I dont care!!
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BadMrMojo
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Re: MacIntosh.....
The program has to be compiled for a mac to work on a mac, just like on a PC. This is the same reason it won't work on Linux or your old Amiga. It's just written for Windows.Rustycan wrote:Ok, my friend is interested in playing Pbem and he has a Mac and he tried to get the tool to work on his machine but alas!! It wouldnt work any ideas as to why it did not work?? Or will it just not work on a mac??
If I can make a suggestion, try SkiJunkie's Javabbowl. Works great on OS X.
http://fumbbl.com/javabbowl (or a slightly different way of doing it at http://witwat.net/luke/javabbowl ). It works great, although probably not with your league. It's NOT PBEM, though, it's real-time.
If anyone does have any java-based PBEM tools, I'd love to try one. It can get awfully hard to get a game in when you need to make sure you have an hour or so to play.
Good luck. Worst case scenario, you can have your friend try Virtual PC and run windows in emulation. If he has a newer machine (a year or two) it should run fine.
http://www.connectix.com/products/vpc6m.html
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