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Ancient gaming quest: Unreal and Unreal Tournament on Mac Os X 10.4.11

ltpitt

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Hi all,

I am on this nostalgia trip and I want to run my beloved Unreal and Unreal Tournament on a G4 emac.
The versions I bought on GOG are clearly useless, my original cds from the 1998/1999 leave me with a classic only executable and that is far from optimal on a machine (1.25 ghz eMac) that is only Mac Os X capable.

I saw that a nice person spent a lot of time in porting and optimizing both Unreal and UT99 to Mac Os X PPC but his website removed downloads from...
January?
Am I this unlucky? :(

I managed to download the Unreal Gold from MEGA (I found the link via archive.org).
It was a broken zip file but - it seems - I was able to fix it using WinRAR.

But Unreal Tournament package is not available anywhere.
It was hosted on 4share and the link is now dead...

Was anyone quick enough to save it somewhere before it gets lost in the void forever?

Thanks for your time and patience :)

ps
Seems like there is a Mac Os X executable built by icculus but it has quite some problems (including music not working).
Getting to the unrealosx.webs.com version would be the end of my personal quest :)
 
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if OS X binaries are not an option, you could always use classic mode under OS X, which even machines that don't support OS 9 can still utilize.
 
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originaldotexe said:
if OS X binaries are not an option, you could always use classic mode under OS X, which even machines that don't support OS 9 can still utilize.
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That is indeed also an idea I'd love to explore but my classic mode works VERY weird :/
Classic starts, I can indeed start classic applications but...
I cannot click with the mouse :O

I just copied the classic folder from a working mac on my emac, maybe I missed something?
 
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Oops. Didn't read the first post properly - sorry! Have had a look through my old files and don't have those UT99 patches any more for Mac.
 
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bobnugget said:
Oops. Didn't read the first post properly - sorry! Have had a look through my old files and don't have those UT99 patches any more for Mac.
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If you are a fan I managed to save the Unreal Gold OS X ppc latest version, works fine on my eMac 1.25Ghz :)

No joy (so far) for Unreal Tournament Gold OS X ppc but I didn't give up yet...
Someone must have it!
 
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If you’re on FB, you can join the PPC gaming lounge (actually it might be called vintage mac now; I’m no longer on FB) that has a lot of good links.

I know I have a good OS X version of UT99, that I thought came from the garden but I got it from one of the servers that was on the aforementioned FB group. If you can’t find a suitable version I can upload mine somewhere.

Edit: I went to the website you guys linked to in the web archive, and the download link for UT99 OS X is still up. Here
 
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Project Alice said:
If you’re on FB, you can join the PPC gaming lounge (actually it might be called vintage mac now; I’m no longer on FB) that has a lot of good links.

I know I have a good OS X version of UT99, that I thought came from the garden but I got it from one of the servers that was on the aforementioned FB group. If you can’t find a suitable version I can upload mine somewhere.

Edit: I went to the website you guys linked to in the web archive, and the download link for UT99 OS X is still up. Here
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Hi and thanks for the help :D

The link you provided is Unreal Gold, not Unreal Tournament Gold.

I have Unreal Gold, I look for Unreal Tournament Gold :)
 
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anyone up for some UT99 or just Unreal matches? Not very good but love these games.

I remeber researching this topic and reading about the mac os x audio not working with that one version literally like 10 years ago lol. Memory is a weird thing.
 
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alex_free said:
anyone up for some UT99 or just Unreal matches? Not very good but love these games.

I remeber researching this topic and reading about the mac os x audio not working with that one version literally like 10 years ago lol. Memory is a weird thing.
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I'm down to play. It would be cool to have a gaming night or something with users from this forum from time to time.
 
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fogWraith said:
oldunreal dot com still carries patches for both Unreal and Unreal Tournament, does those help in your quest?
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Thanks for checking!

Sadly not.
The one available in the link I provided was updated even more than the official mac ports and arguably the best you can get for a ppc when it comes to unreal Tournament.

Such a pity it got lost forever :(
 
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