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Myth II Carbonized
novocastrian writes "As reported at PlayMyth, Myth II has been Carbonized and will be released to owners of the game on the 15th of March. The work was done entirely by dedicated followers of the game. The disappointing Myth III has also undergone a major overhaul and will be soon be hosted on a popular player-based server."
J adds: Myth II will not support hardware rendering in OS X. But as I recall, software rendering gave an almost-playable framerate even on my 604/250, so on modern machines it might not be bad. Myth I and II were great tactical combat games. I'm itching to play Mudpit again!
Check the lokigames newsgroups (news.lokigames.com). There's some fixes there.
The Myth 3 "Lazarus" (as in "the dead guy'll look a whole lot better once we get these bandages off") project page is here. (They have a Hotline server for build access, a nice, Mac-centric touch.) It seems that former Mumbo Jumbo developers are involved in the project, so hopefully M3 will emerge from the "beta-quality with a golden-master price" limbo it labored in for so long.
"Freedom is kind of a hobby with me, and I have disposable income that I'll spend to find out how to get people more."
This is truly a wonderful example of what a dedicated group of fans can pull off (in addition to Linux, of course ; )
::KABOOM::
I've been fairly unenthused with just about every game I've ever played, with the exception of the Myth series. The balance of skill, unit selection, terrain, and a little bit of luck makes it the most playable game I've found yet.
Just this christmas vacation we all got together for our annual LAN game -- did we play the latest and greatest Quake or Unreal version? Course not! Myth II for nine hours straight. Fear my 'lock, bitch!
Seeing as how Deus Ex wasn't a huge hit on pc, and made an even smaller splash on mac, I doubt, as you said, a carbon version will arrive. However, we may be in luck for Deus Ex 2, which is coming out for PC and xbox. Im sure if the game generates enough interest Aspyr will provide a port.
If you get an error, type "OVERRIDE" or "SECURITY OVERRIDE" and then try the optimize command again.
I am the project coordinator for the Myth 2 and Myth 3 projects. There are a lot of things being done to support these two titles. We're looking to port M2 to OpenGL for a future update - we just wanted to get the carbonized version out for people to start playing. We fully intend to support hardware accelleration via OpenGL at some point. More things in store also. Myth 2 will be in carbon by 3/15, Myth 3 will be finished by 4/15 and we have another update for M2 coming in May. For complete info, go to mythdev.com. This is the home page for these projects.