UT2004 Universal Beta released

Well, Ryan Gordon had the MacNinjas testing this one for a bit, and only a few of us had access to Intel iMacs. Originally the release was just going to be the old 3369.1 PPC released glommed onto the Intel universal binary. However now it’s been released as a full-blown 3369.2 revision for PPC as well. I was also curious about OpenAL, since fellow MacNinja Petter always seems to have something interesting up his sleeve. When I asked Ryan in email, he told me: “It was rebuilt to the latest version in Subversion. Originally the PowerPC side was just going to be 3369.1 glued to the new Intel build, but the UseStencil fixes required a rebuild, and SDL had some serious changes recently, so I opted to rebuild everything so we had known quantities on both CPU architectures.”
Anyways 3369.2 does not exist on Linux or Windows, as these are Mac-specific issues. Also, the server exploit fix from Dec 2005 has also been incorporated, and even better, the Epic Mega Pack is now included with the update, which causes what would be a rather small download to now weigh in a hair short of 200 Mb. If you want to know about the 9 new maps in the Mega Pack, see BeyondUnreal’s overview. Anyways see all the download mirrors at Gordon’s site here. If you want a faster mirror, I don’t know if it’s listed yet, but Petter got a mirror up in Sweden here, and I think MGF has a link as well, but it usually just redirects to Gordon’s icculus.org site. If you’re doing a brand spanking virgin install of UT2004 on your Intel (or PPC) Mac, and the retail installer crashes on you, make sure to use Gordon’s fixed retail installer for Tiger at Macologist downloads. I don’t see a link for this file at MGF, so get it here as icculus.org will be slammed for a few days, and the file was previously in a temporary folder so who knows if it’s still there. Finally, if you want to see our preliminary benchmarks of Universal UT2004 running on Intel iMacs on a pre-release version last week, read our article here, which we wrote in collaboration with barefeats.com. It flies. Keep your eyes peeled as we’ll be working with barefeats again on another benchmarking feature with more universal binaries. w33t indeed. It’s already a good year!

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