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EARTHDATE: June 11, 2017

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MAC PROGRAMMERS WANTED

by Alan

It appears that some of our Mac using players are having problems with FedTerm after upgrading to the latest version of OSX. In addition the Mac FedTerm is several versions behind the Windows version. The current Mac version was ported by a player who is no longer around, so we can’t ask him to do it again, unfortunately.

So, are there any Mac programmers out there who would like to have a go at porting the current issue to the Mac? FedTerm is open source, and the source code is freely available at https://bitbucket.org/alan_lenton/fedterm. It’s a C++ program using Qt, and I’d be happy to answer any queries about the code from anyone porting it.

I understand that it is possible to wrap the Windows version in something called a Wineskin, which is similar to WINE in Linux. One of our players has succeeded in doing this, and it does appear to be working. We will see about making this available to anyone else who wants it in the near future, but I’m afraid it’s strictly on an ‘as is’ and a ‘no promises that it will work for you’ basis.

In the long term, I hope to be able to use the forthcoming web assembly project output to provide a browser based version of FedTerm, but that depends on other factors such as the development of web assembly tools and a version of the Qt libraries for web assembly, so I have no timeline for it.

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