Hello, comrades.

I was so excited when Spring actually came out for Mac, for real, but then I got it, and...
I don't know how to play any games or anything on it >.<! Namely, XTA, because who didn't like TA? Seriously now. :)

So if anyone could help explain how to even just be able to use a game on it, I would be very grateful.

Cheers.

Welcome.
As I do not have a mac I have no idea how good Spring/lobby now works on Mac. I will just assume it works okay now
For XTA:
Sadly there is no fancy installerthing because XTA is only played by few people.
get xta here:
viewtopic.php?f=48&t=21739
Just place the file in \My Documents\My Games\Spring\Games\ or ...\Spring\games\ folder (~/.spring/games/ on Linux/Unix/Mac).

Maps are sold separately:
http://springrts.com/wiki/Maps

The few players play pretty regular though.
In lobby type /join #xta to get to the games channel. There is not a game going on at any time of day and people might be afk but eventually games always start

On Mac (as for Linux), games are to be located in ~/.spring/mods and the maps in ~/.spring/maps. You have to create these folders manually if they don't exist.

games are located in ~/.spring/games !

Well I guarantee they are in ".spring/mods" on Mac
double-location aware ?

.spring/mods is deprecated...

why not make a portable version of Spring on Mac OS X ?

For now, mostly for 2 reasons:
- currently Spring.app is not bundled with any lobby, hence there is no self update system and you would have to download maps and games again inside each new bundle version.
- assuming this was implemented, as a lobby developer, you would loose the ability to test your lobby on multiple versions of the engine at the same time.

Then again, worth considering for the future

Thanks!
When will Spring (85.0 for Mac OS X) be ready ?

As soon as my sever is repaired (Waiting for my spare parts to ship...)

85.0 Mac build available:

http://springrts.com/wiki/Download

Thanks daftalx!

I think I put everything in the right place for XTA to work, but when I press "Test Game", Spring crashes. I have a map, and the game, both in their respective positions. I'm a little unsure what to do about the "AI", so I set it to Commanders. It shows me the title screen (I guess that's what you could call it), then it immediately crashes. Help???

see:
viewtopic.php?f=11&t=27154

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