Unfortunately, the new MacOS X 10.5 (Leopard) does not run the release binaries of VICE 1.22 and VICEplus 1.0 anymore.
Some debugging revealed three issues:
- The X11.app startup has greatly simplified and does not need open-x11 (which by the way does not exist any more) to determine a valid DISPLAY value. Now MacOS X already defines a valid DISPLAY that automatically launches the X11 server. This needed a minor modification to the VICE launch scripts.
- A really nasty bug in the CoreAudio sound driver now crashes the application. The bug existed for a long time but was never discovered since previous versions of MacOS X simply tolerated the wrong API call. Now Leopard is more picky and simply crashes. A small fix in the audio driver fixes this problem.
- Finally, Apple updated the autoconf build tools and thus the build files needed minor modifications. Additionally, /bin/sh now seems to point to a real sh and since some scripts require /bin/bash they need to be changed to call the right shell.
I fixed these issues and now VICE and VICEplus run on Leopard, too. The fix is already applied to the current development versions of both branches.
For your convenience I also recompiled the current version with the patch applied:
Thanks for the Leopard fix! I love VICE and the VICE Team! However, I think there still is a bug in vice-macosx-x11-ub-1.22.leofix because the 128 emulator does not work. The rest of the emulators do (64, Vic, etc..) but not the 128.
Just an FYI. 🙂
Keep up the great work!
Mark
Weird… I still can’t get this to work on my new Macbook. The application launches and sits down on the Dock, but I can’t figure out how to launch a game. The FILE menu doesn’t give me any option to do that…and it doesn’t display the classic Commodore Ready display. It’s like it launches but doesn’t display anything.
giga thanx!!! tons of thanx!!! i was getting crazy… i am a scener since 1988 and damn newbie on mac!… i’m trying to get use to mac things… after i buy my mbp, the first thing i tried was vice… damn! not working… a big dissappointment since i got here!!! thank you again for the leopard fix.
vigo/bronx^trsi^zombie boys
Do you know how to unpack old .sit apps using Vice on leopard?
I have an old app that requires Vice to install, but using Vice results in “Not Responding”. Is there a method to get Vice to work on Leopard? (I’m using 10.5.6)
Any wisdom would be very precious to me and others,
Thanks,
-enki
Oops must recant. “The Unarchiver” works to open .sit. My issue is with a app installer that asks for vice to open it (the app installer) [don’t ask, work legacy issues] but vice crashes.
Does your patch to vice unpack packages? If so how do i get it to unpack a package?
If not do you know a workaround to open vice requesting installers?
Thanks,
enki
Thanks again.