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Descent 2
D2X-XL is an OpenGL enhanced version of Descent 2, offering a plethora of improvements over the original program, like colored lighting, stereoscopic rendering, high resolution textures, sounds and player ships, many effects (e.g. smoke, lightning, rain, snow, ...), new game modes, improved multiplayer support, bigger levels, full modding support, etc. etc. D2X-XL preserves full backwards compatibility and also supports playing Descent 1 levels with the original Descent 1 sounds, textures, physics and AI. D2X-XL is available for Mac OS X, Linux, and MS Windows.
What's New
Version 1.16.11:
- Fixed: Weapon information wasn't always reliably transmitted in multiplayer games.
Requirements
- Intel
- Mac OS X 10.5 or later
- Descent 2 (original retail game disks)
- 3D graphics card
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D2X-XL is an OpenGL enhanced version of Descent 2, offering a plethora of improvements over the original program, like colored lighting, stereoscopic rendering, high resolution textures, sounds and player ships, many effects (e.g. smoke, lightning, rain, snow, ...), new game modes, improved multiplayer support, bigger levels, full modding support, etc. etc. D2X-XL preserves full backwards compatibility and also supports playing Descent 1 levels with the original Descent 1 sounds, textures, physics and AI. D2X-XL is available for Mac OS X, Linux, and MS Windows.
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I still get dizzy playing it, but it's worth it.
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On the PowerMac G5 and the PowerBook G4s the latest version continues to work fine and restores the functionality of 3rd party missions. That's a good sign. Just wish all our iBooks would also work with this so everyone could join the same mission.
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Jeffrey McPheeters reviewed on 19 Jan 2007
1.9.69 and 1.9.91, the most recent updates, are broken on our iBook G3s. 1.9.69 just freezes in the startup screen, leaving a black, blank window. It eventually crashes after a few minutes. 1.9.91 crashes almost immediately on launch. So we continue to use 1.9.66 as the most recent version that works on those.
1.9.69 and 1.9.91 do work fine on the G4 PowerBook and the PowerMac G5.
3rd party missions also no longer work on any of our systems, iBooks, Powerbooks, or G5s. They just are not being read by the program. I've heard from other Mac users that the missions recently stopped working for them as well. Hopefully we'll get a fix for this. Someone is looking into it.
Overall, the game plays very well, considering the difficulty the developers must have in attempting to do what they are doing without much funding or support. Kudos to them for the time and effort put in to what I think was one of the all time best 3D games ever devised.
cybercat reviewed on 08 Sep 2006
I ended up not being able to just copy the plain old files directly from my Descent 2 CD and instead had to actually install Descent 2 on my Windows XP machine, then copy the files from the install directory to the data folder (which you create) on my mac.
Once again, top notch!
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Really though, why is this a problem? Do different Macs, even those running the same OS, handle files differently? If any developers read this thread maybe this bit of info will help. When I restarted my Mac, which I had to do because Descent got stuck on the black screen at startup, the disk image and all of the files were nowhere to be found on my computer. Even searching with Spotlight turned up no results. Like I never even downloaded it. This sucks, I want to play some Descent at home! From the other responses, I know that this has something to do with my particular computer. Can anybody resolve this problem once and for all?
If files are gone after resetting a machine during a program freeze, these file could have been open, file info kept somewhere in memory, and due to the reset that data wasn't written back to disk.
I have at least heard that you can destroy your whole file system on Linux/Unix boxes that way, and OS X seems to be pretty similar to Unix.
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so far no crash log has arrived at my e-mail account.
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as I take a 2nd look at your comment, I start to believe that you haven't read the (changed) installation instructions on my Descent 2 site. D2 data folder has been made more Mac conformant and is now /Applications/Games/D2X-XL.
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a crash log had only arrived at my e-mail address after I had contacted you.
The crash log hints to D2X-XL not finding the D2 data on your machine.
Your post states a data path that is not being used any more - see the latest installation instructions.
You declined the offer to get the source code yourself and help us in fixing your problems.
You obviously are not acknowledging the fact that this is project done in our leisure time, brought to the public for free, where support is welcome.
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Finally I sent off a second crash log.
In return for this effort, I received letters villifying me as "a butt"; suggesting that I get the code and compile it myself and so on.
Now when you consider that I went to a lot more effort than any of the several -other- people who posted the same problem (crash), I'm not sure why I was singled out for attack.
I tried to politely simply refuse further communications, but instead received a long letter letting me know what an idiot I am, and telling me to "read the instructions" (which I'd done about twenty times.)
Look: there are many other people having trouble with this software. I -understand- that you're doing it voluntarily. But so what? That's YOUR choice. I tried to help by providing crash logs and so on.
PLEASE: don't attack those who are trying to help you. If you don't like the criticism, pull the product.
Finally: PLEASE stop emailing me.
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this is not a platform for you to start a flame war, and I told you before to stick with the truth.
#1 I only received a crash log after contacting you from my e-mail address.
#2 I kindly and in an absolutely acceptable way asked to get the source code yourself and debug the program in order to help us.
#3 I received a very unfriendly letter from you expressing your general antipathy and what you thought of me. You got the appropriate reply.
Apart from that, I have said everything before.
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Stop making this place a forum of your negative feelings.
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Yuriy Georgiev rated on 09 Jun 2011