ALIEN FLUX for Mac OS X Released!

Get it here

Because of all his help, Pat from Phelios is getting an exclusive on the Mac OS distribution, that’s why it’s on his site currently.

Please give it a go - technically it’s still a beta but if there’s no glaring bugs we’ll tell the world about it!

Cas :slight_smile:

Now updated to version 1.5b in line with Windows. The “attract mode only” experiment has finished, and it’s back to having a bit of a playable demo.

<fx: tumbleweed, tolling bell>

Cas :slight_smile:

“JavaVM FATAL: Failed to load the jvm library. Exit”

OSX 10.3.2

Whomever packaged it appears to be using some metrowerks sample project called SimpleAlert. I don’t see how/where this package is grabbing the JVM so I’m unable to assist.

10.3.2 already? Wasn’t 10.3 released a few weeks ago?

  • elias

Hi Gregory,

apparently, just putting the application in a particular kind of directory structure makes it “work”. Java is kind of built-in to the operating system and it just knows how to launch it if it’s in the right structure with some kind of launch config file in there to tell it what jars to use etc.

Now, we’ve got a <1% failure rate on MacOS X (compared to 35% on Windows!) - which means you are one of the extremely rare OS X users who can’t get it to work out of the box.

You are also a Java developer :slight_smile: and we also know that developer’s machines are very frequently f*cked up in some clever way :wink:

It would be helpful if we could figure out what the peculiarity with your machine is compared to the other 99% of Macs. I have no idea where to start though! And I don’t even have a Mac so I can’t try anything for myself.

Cas :slight_smile:

Worked great for me. OS X 10.3.1 Java 1.4.2 DP 1

I don’t have access to 10.3.2, is that a “for paying developer’s only” pre-release? (Or a typo :slight_smile: ?)

Hey Cas, how has it been accepted on the Mac in general? Any sales to speak of, or is it too early to see a trend?

Sales, as ever, == 0. We get about 1 download every minute from a MacOS X user. Blimey. But no cash :smiley: I’d appreciate it if you could check whether the Buy Now button works (just use a dud credit card number - I want to see that you get a proper response back from SWREG, not an internal error message).

Cas :slight_smile:

I’m generally much further along than the current released baseline for both Apple Java and the OSX platform. Since you guys confirm that it works on OSX 10.3.1 I will file it as an issue with Apple and let them sort it out.

Try downloading it again. We identified a problem copying the bouncy castle crypto into the Library/Java/Extension directory (it requires admin permission or something). We now shove it in ~Library/Java/Extension instead which shouldn’t need such permissions.

Cas :slight_smile: